John Eyre (1771-1812) was an early Australian painter and engraver.
Ivan Durrant is an Australian painter, performance artist and writer.
The streets were named after Australian painters.
He was the first Australian painter to show there.
Tom Roberts, the well-known Australian painter, visited the island in 1892.
In the 1980s he started making computer prints, and was possibly the first established Australian painter to use this medium.
Many modern and post-modern Australian painters of the later 20th century are also on display.
This was a record price for any Australian painter.
The well-known Australian painter Will Ashton was another of his students.
He then turned to painting in an expressionistic style; possibly the first Australian painter to experiment with collage.