Trailer | Australia’s Impressionists | The National Gallery, London

Escape the darkness of winter for the light-filled landscapes of the Australian Impressionists in the first UK exhibition of its kind. Opens 7 December. Book now, Members go free: Subscribe for more videos: Australia’s Impressionists 7 December 2016 – 26 March 2017 #AustraliasImpressionists Showcasing four innovative Australian Impressionist artists, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and John Russell, this exhibition explores Impressionism in an Australian context – closely related to yet entirely distinct from its European counterparts. From ‘snapshots’ of life in the rapidly teeming cities of Melbourne and Sydney to dazzling landscapes of coast and bushland, the paintings of Roberts, Streeton, and Conder came to epitomise a growing sense of national identity as Australia approached Federation in 1901. Russell, by contrast, was an Australian expatriate who spent almost his entire career in France, counting Va