John Olsen: the you beaut country

John Olsen: the you beaut country surveys the remarkable, seven-decade career of one of Australia’s most distinguished living artists, John Olsen.

The most comprehensive display ever mounted on Olsen’s work, the exhibition features some of his most iconic and arresting works, including large-scale paintings of Sydney Harbour and Lake Eyre and his career-defining landscape series The you beaut country.

Olsen is renowned for his energetic painting style and his lyrical depictions of the Australian landscape and its life-forms. The exhibition traces the development of his spectacular and i