Edmund Capon explores how European settlers ignored indigenous culture before a unique impressionism emerged that reflected Australia's distinctive identity.

Edmund Capon explores how Australia evolved in the first half of the 20th century against the backdrop of two world wars and how modern artists expressed both the dreams and demons of a new nation.

Edmund Capon explores how Australia and its art went global in the 1960s and onwards. Transformed into a migrant nation, Australia's dependence on Britain and Europe ended, and artists and nation alike turned their attention to America and Asia.