Box Hill artists' camp
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The Box Hill artists' camp was a site in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia favoured by a group of plein air painters in the mid to late 1880s who later became associated with the Heidelberg School art mov
Tom Roberts, The Artists' Camp, 1886, National Gallery of Victoria
Arthur Streeton, June evening, Box Hill, 1887, Queensland Art Gallery
Frederick McCubbin, Down on His Luck, 1889, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Tom Roberts, Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek, 1885, Art Gallery of South Australia
Heidelberg School
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The Heidelberg School was an Australian art movement of the late 19th century. It has been described as Australian impressionism.
Arthur Streeton, Golden Summer, Eaglemont, 1889
Tom Roberts, Shearing the Rams, 1890
Buxton's Rooms, Swanston Street, site of the 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition
The 9 by 5 catalogue, designed by Conder, shows a female as an allegory of art being unraveled from the bandages of 'Convention'. The exhibition's theme of transience is also symbolised by falling blossoms and a dragonfly, which in folklore lives only one day.