Exhibition John Brack - Audio Guide

Here we discuss The Racecourse series, a selection of Brack's watercolour and etchings analysing the Saturday afternoon activities at Melbourne racecourse during the winter of 1956.

The Boucher nude is part of Brack's first series of Nude's painted in 1957. The setting is the artist's North Balwyn home.

The shop window series was produced during the early 1960s and coincided with Brack's appointment as the head of the National Gallery School in 1962.

Narrator Christopher Brown takes a look at John Brack's early years as a young man growing up in Melbourne, and the social and political influence this had on a young artists professional development.

In The Barber's Shop, we discover the essential ingredients of a young Brack’s approach to painting.

Here we discuss Brack's unique style of drawing with paint and how these early stages of drawing guided his ideas and eventual composition.