Albert Tucker
Back beach rock pool c.1980s
(Blairgowrie series)
mixed media on cardboard
Gift of Barbara Tucker, 2003
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Reproduced with permission from Barbara Tucker


Peninsula

The Mornington Peninsula has been a well-known haven for artists from the 1850s and many of Australia’s best known artists have produced memorable works based on the distinctive coastal environment of the region. Highlights of the Gallery’s regional collection include three early watercolours of Sorrento township by Roland Clark, a group of media works by Albert Tucker of Blairgowrie and one of the celebrated 1968 gouaches by Fred Williams of Mornington Bluff, and a suite of charcoal drawings of the Flinders coastline by Rick Amor produced on location in 1999–2000.