Category: Remarkable Characters

Francoise Gilot was a friend of Matisse, muse of Picasso, and an exciting and successful artist in her own right.

The Archibald Prize is Australia’s richest art prize. It was founded by a self-made miner turned journalist, who liked to pretend he was French. 

She sang and she shredded on electric guitar. She was black, bi-sexual, and a woman, at a time when it was hard to be any of these things. She is Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Gwoya Tjungurrayi was a Warlpiri man from the Northern Territory desert. You may not know the name, but you have seen him: he’s the Man on the $2 Coin.

William Edmondson was an African-American sharecropper from Tennessee. One day, God told him his destiny was to become an artist.