Tom Roberts' Shearing The Rams (expired event)

AGWA will be home for the next few months to one of Australia’s iconic colonial-era paintings.

Tom Roberts’ Shearing the Rams will be on loan from the National Gallery of Victoria until late July, in return for the loan of one of AGWA’s much-loved paintings, Droving into the light, which will be a feature of a NGV exhibition focussing on Hans and Nora Heysen.

Shearing the Rams will hang alongside AGWA’s own Down on his luck by Frederick McCubbin, and will give you a rare opportunity to see these two great nationalistic narrative paintings side-by-side. Both works take rural subject matter as the starting point for their images of Australian identity, but Roberts presents a positive vision of the pastoral industry, far removed from McCubbin’s image of a struggling pioneer.