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Brett Whiteley House is a heritage-listed arts and crafts studio and residence in Lavender Bay, New South Wales, Australia. It was built during 1905 by Henry Green. It is also known as Brett Whiteley House and Visual Curtilage and Lochgyle. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 23 March 2018. [1]
The MLC Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in the central business district of North Sydney, on a block bounded by Miller Street, Denison Street and Mount Street (Brett Whiteley Place). Planned in 1954 and completed in 1957, the complex was designed in the modernist Post-war International style by architects, Bates, Smart & McCutcheon .
Artist Brett Whiteley lived in a house overlooking the Bay with his wife Wendy Whiteley; Wendy continued to live there as of 2019. [7] In 2018 the NSW Government granted heritage status to the Whiteleys' house, its views of Sydney Harbour, and Wendy's remarkable Secret Garden in recognition of the significance of the place to the history of ...
North Sydney Oval; Stanton Library; Brett Whiteley Square; Museum at Mary MacKillop Place, which tells the story of Australia's first Catholic saint; Don Bank Museum, devoted to the history of the local area; Greenwood Plaza shopping complex (built under the former public school, founded in 1878 and renamed after its Principal) North Sydney ...
North Sydney was settled around 1785 by European and Loyalist settlers. [11] The original Mi'kmaq name for the area, Kweso'mkiaq, means "sandy point.". It emerged as a major shipbuilding centre in the early 19th century, building many brigs and brigantines for the English market, later moving on to larger barques, and in 1851 to the full-rigged Lord Clarendon, the largest wooden ship ever ...
The new, cascading exhibition spaces featured large windows with views onto Sydney Harbour, and converted a large underground oil bunker into a columned gallery spaced called 'The Tank'. [51] In April 2024 it was announced the Sydney Modern (north building) would be called an Aboriginal name Naala Badu, meaning ' seeing waters ' in the Sydney ...
Wendy Whiteley OAM Born Wendy Susan Julius 1941 (age 83–84) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Nationality Australian Education Julian Ashton Art School Known for Visual arts Movement Avant-garde Spouse Brett Whiteley (m. 1962 ; div. 1989) Wendy Susan Whiteley OAM (née Julius ; born 1941) is best known as the former wife of the Australian artist Brett Whiteley, and as the mother of their ...
Henri's Armchair is a 1974 painting by Australian artist Brett Whiteley. The work depicts the interior of Whiteley's house looking out towards Sydney Harbour and is part of the artist's Lavender Bay series. [1] The work is named after Henri Matisse, an artist that Whiteley admired. [2] Whiteley sold the work to lawyer and art dealer Clive Evatt.