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Fred Williams

Fred Williams was a painter and printmaker whose distinctive vision altered the way many Australians envisage the landscape. He approached his subject matter as a stimulus for formal invention and said he strove to depict the underlying bones rather than the surface skin of the Australian continent. Williams had an extensive knowledge of Western art and strove to link his Australian work to these broader traditions.

Following study at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne and private classes at the George Bell Art School in the 1940s, Williams travelled to London in 1951. Inspired by street life and music halls he encountered there, Williams produced a number of etchings of figure subjects, which reflect the influence of Walter Sickert and Honoré Daumier. Through frequent museum visits, he became familiar with European modern and contemporary art, absorbing in particular the work of Cezanne, Matisse, and the Cubists, which fueled his constant search for formal innovation.  More

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