This book explores the vitality of contemporary Australian painting as it enters the twenty-first century. 'Australian Painting Now' profiles the work of eighty significant contemporary Australian artists whose approach to painting, in different ways, helps to define the times in which we live.
'Australian Painting Now' also features current innovative approaches to figuration, collaboration and abstraction which build on directions pre-empted by Australian contemporary painting in the 1970s and 1980s.