Image: Mildred Lovett Vase with pastoral design of dancing figures by Sydney Long 1909 © Estate of Mildred Lovett

Image: Yiribana Gallery of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art

Image: Charles Conder Departure of the Orient – Circular Quay 1888 (detail)

Thomas Keneally (image courtesy of Random House)

Image: Tim Storrier The histrionic wayfarer (after Bosch), winner Archibald Prize 2012 (detail) View full work

Richard Gill (photo: Jeff Busby)

Image: Margaret Preston Gum blossoms (1928) woodcut © Margaret Rose Preston Estate

Richard Johnson & Anne Flanagan

Image: Wayne Tunnicliffe, head of Australian art

Image: Josh Hill & Roger Lock

Image: Monique Dykstra and Daniel Cordeaux, Open Stage Productions

Anne Flanagan

Image: Arthur Murch The idle hour 1933 © AGNSW

Image: Sydney Long Spirit of the plains 1897 (detail) Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. Gift of William Howard-Smith in memory of his grandfather Ormond Charles Smith 1940 © Estate of Sydney Long. Courtesy Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia

Image: The Etcetera Duo in front of Ugo Rondinone clockwork for oracles 2011 (detail) © Ugo Rondinone

Wendy Whiteley

Image: Sidney Nolan First-class marksman 1946 Purchased with funds provided by the Gleeson O’Keefe Foundation 2010 © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust

Image: Crystal Hegedis as Gert by Sea, in front of Charles Meere Australian beach pattern 1940 © Charles Meere Estate

Image: Melinda Kirwin & Simon Rudston-Brown, The Falls

Image: Charles Conder Departure of the Orient – Circular Quay 1888 (detail)

Image: Left: Bridie King; Right: Roger Lock

Image: Grace Cossington Smith The curve of the bridge 1928–29 Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales and James Fairfax AO 1991 © Estate of Grace Cossington Smith; James Angus Bugatti Type 35 2006 Purchased with funds provided by Andrew Cameron, the Contemporary Collection Benefactors’ and the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 2006 © James Angus, Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Harold Cazneaux Sydney Bridge c1934 Gift of the Cazneaux family 1975

Mike Parr Integration 3 (Leg spiral) 1975, printed 2001 (detail) Gift of the artist 2001 © Mike Parr

Image: Elana Stone and Brian Campeau, The Rescue Ships

Image: Vicki West

Image: Night cries, Dir: Tracey Moffatt