Cirrus@Austlit

'One big advantage of having your name attached for long enough to Australia’s unstoppable cultural upsurge is that you eventually get to meet everyone else.

'Last time I looked, I was personally acquainted with at least three of the most illustrious Australian painters of the post-war generation, the gang who put the Australian branch of their art-form on an international level. Admittedly I had met Sidney Nolan and Charles Blackman only once, and Russell Drysdale and Arthur Boyd not at all. But Margaret…'  (Introduction)