- Works of Art
- Yvonne Audette, Sun's Rebirth
- G W Bot Hieroglyphs (Requiem)
- Arthur Boyd
- Alexander Boynes: Changing Places
- Robert Boynes, Observer and Observed
- Robert Boynes, Those Lifeless things
- Jan Brown, Magpies
- Hilary Crawford, Sugar Town and other works
- Fred Cress A Hidden Place
- Ray Crooke , The Islanders & Girl at Table
- Ante Dabro Reclining Figure
- Greg Daly Dawn & Dusk
- Neville Dawson: Dr Tom Calma
- Diane Firth, Bimbimbie
- Graham Fransella, Figure in the Sand
- Sally Gabori My Country
- Bernard Hardy, Canberra Series
- Bernard Hardy, Woolwinder
- Libby Hathorn by Myriam Kin-Yee
- Bevan Haywood Final Showdown
- Napanangka Katungka Kutjarr Kunya at Intinti
- Dale Huddleston, Mural
- Michael Johnson Ellamatta Mauve
- Abie Loy Kemarre Bush Medicine Leaf Dreaming
- Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Untitled, Awelye
- Warren Langley, The Collective Memory
- Doug Lawrie, Untitled Round Vase
- Michael Le Grand, Yo-yo.
- Sue Lovegrove: Vanishing #352
- Tim Maguire, Untitled
- Queenie McKenzie Mooloogoor Hills
- Ann Marie McMahon, The Two Walyers
- Sally Morgan The Circle and other works
- Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarii: Water Soakages near Nyrripi
- Walangkura Napanangka Kutungka Napanangka at Papunga
- Trevor Nickolls, Bird
- Sir Sydney Nolan: Night and Desert Landscapes
- Tiger Palpatja Wanampi Tjukurpa
- Ningura Papurrula Women's Ceremonies
- Peter Pedriau, Coverer in Yellow
- Minnie Pwerle, Women's Ceremonies
- William Robinson , Twin Falls
- Darby Jampijimpa Ross: Emu & Water Jukurrpa
- Tom Rowney, Black, White and Grey Merletto Bowl
- William Sandy, Bush Bean Dreaming
- Jörg Schmeisser, Here and Now, Echoes of the Past
- Brian Seidel, Autumn Pond and Tropical Pond
- Michael Taylor, Showers
- Imants Tillers: Home Visitation III
- Freddie Ngarrmaliny Timms, Mud Springs
- Mykal Zschech, various works
- Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono Mural paintings
- David Voigt Ravenhill Gate and other works
- George Gittoes, The Henna Tattoo
- Sydney Nolan: Mask VIII
- Judith Clingan, Shearing Top Naas
- Eris Fleming, Hillside Paddock
- GW Bot, Threnody
- Ante Dabro, Untitled Drawings
- Robin Nelson Drawings
- Colin Jordan, Intruder
- Stan De Teliga, Kydra River
- Dianne Firth, Black Opal
- Jack Featherstone, Alpine Ash Bark Painting
- Karla Dickens Second Skin
- One by Geoffrey Drake-Brockman
- Sculpture 19 by Derek F Wrigley
- Robin White wood cut series
- Graham Eadie,, Various works
- Peter Laverty, Seascape
- Paul Cavell, Postcard Incident
- Frank Hodgkinson, Black Cockatoo
- Brian Hirst Flat form Teal
- Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri Marrawa
- Tommy Watson, Untitled, 2013 & 2016
- Sándor Györfi, Ignaz Semmelweis sculplture
- Jimmy Baker, Kalaya Tjukurpa
- Ian Henderson, Where is your heart and other works
- Maringka Baker: Kalinpil
- David Miller: Inarki
- Robert Hannaford, Jean Blackburn
- Elizabeth Kruger: Blushing Banksias
- David Armfield, Morris's Vineyard
- Cecily Gibson, Untitled Stoneware Bowl
- George Baldessin, Ed25 & Untitled works
- Andrew Sibley, The Trolley Pushers and other works
- Keith Looby, Packaged Landscape
- David Rose- Magpie in Orange Tree
- Unknown artist: Japanese Wedding Kimono
- Salvatore Zofrea, Various Works of Art
- Basil Hadley: Over Under the Trees
- Dacre Henry Deudreath Smyth: Towards Captains Flat
- Nancy Parker, Main Street, Braidwood
- John Coburn, Various Works
- Geoffrey De Groen: Untitled
- Kenneth Jack: Normanton Station
- Elizabeth Rooney: Various Drawings
- Frances Jones: Still life works
- Margaret Olley: Interior
- Colin Moyston: Victoria Line
- Sven Hiroe: Various ceramic works
- Keiko Schmeisser: In the Fold and Stellar Reflections
- Les Blakebrough: In the Long Grass with Claudia Rose
- Anne Greenwood Untitled
- Bea Maddock Square II
- David Lu Spring Melody
- Cedric Flower Cooma Cottage and other works of art
- Sam Herman Red and Yellow Glass Vases
- Graham Kuo Harbour Mist and other Works
- David Schlunke Air
- Gillie and Marc: Love the Last Exhibition
- John Santry, Geese at Hill End
- Arthur Wicks, Stretcher
- Owen Piggott, Rock Platform
- Robert Pengiley, Various Works
- Heather Ellyard, Dust Storm
- Maximillian Feuering, Bellevue Hill Park
- William Fletcher, Banksia
- Richard and Dilys Brecknock, Various works
- Dick Roughsey, Various works
- Fred Jessup, Boats and Shells
- Jean Conron, Flower Study
- Kevin Conner, Self Portrait with Bird and other Works
- Charles Blackman, The Girl with Dark Plaits
- Reg Livermore: Hydrangea
- Frank Knight Red Kangaroo
- Brian Dunlop Various Works
- Dennis Baker, Kimberley
- Ronnie Tjampitinpa: Untitled
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- Frank Hodgkinson, Black Cockatoo
Frank Hodgkinson, Black Cockatoo
Frank Hodgkinson, Black Cockatoo
The Artist: Frank Hodgkinson
Frank Hodgkinson was born in Sydney, 1919, he studied art at RAS with Sydney Long and moved to London to study art at the Central School of Art and Craft between 1936 and 1938. Further art studies were cut short with the outbreak of war. Hodgkinson enlisted in the AIF and saw active service in North Africa, Syria and the Kokoda Trail, PNG. As a war artist, Hodgkinson covered the assault landings in Borneo. According to Wagner Art Gallery's tribute to Frank Hodgkinson, during his service, he was mentioned in dispatches for conspicuous gallantry on the Owen Stanley ranges. His experiences deeply effected him as both a man and an artist.
Following the war, Frank lived in London, Paris, Madrid, Mallorca, Florence and Rome and briefly the United States where he exhibited widely and achieved recognition as an abstract expressionist artist. Frank's interest in the Spain of Goya deeply affected him, particularly the bull fight and the poet Garcia de Lorca. Accepted and influenced by other Spanish artists such as Vela, Suers, Canogar and Tapes he exhibitied his works at Tate, London. Frank described the paintings and sculptures which he exhibited in 1967 as 'inquisitions into the nature of Spain, the Andalusion Spain of Garcia de Lorca whose poetry triggered off my seeing'. and refers to the 'insight he has allowed me to glimpse of Spanish character, an experience which has extended my essentially Australian self. My struggle has been to grasp the essence of the coutnry and to find metaphors in paint and sculpture to link the antagonistic world of animate and in-animate life in a Spanish and yet universal way.'
In 1971, Hodgkinson returned to Australia and concentrated on painting the remote areas of the country including the Coorong, Flinders Ranges, Lake Eyre, the Kimberley and regular visits to Arnhem-land. In Kakadu, Hodgkinson was instrumental along with Colin Jack-Hinton, in setting up the artists-in-the-field programme sponsored by the Museums and Art Galleries, Northern Territory. Of his works in Arnhem-land, Hodgkinson wrote, 'wilderness is a time-stopped world, an original world of slowly evolved ecology belonging to primitive man - a world in which modnern man is an intruder. I inturde beause it makes me feel primal,, unclutters the vision, clears the way for a fresh beginning... For me communication with nature remains the essential condition. The artist is human, himself nature. Working in a wilderness I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it."
Frank went onto further adventures by trekking across Zimbabwe in 1990 and took on a role as art-in-residence in the National School of Art, Papua New Guinea. Frank passed away on 20th June 2002.
The Work of Art: Black Cockatoo
Although Frank Hodgkinson is known for abstract expressionism, many of his works of art focus on nature. His works are often quite realistic and true to nature. The acquatint print of a yellow barred black cockatoo is an example in the University's art collection of just such a work of observation.
Other works of art by Frank Hodgkinson held in the University's art collection include an ink drawing called the Seed.