Brett Whiteley 'Hullo (Cockatoo)' expressionism and her work is held

and her work is held at the National Gallery of Australia

Janet Lawrence

She is unaware we are watching – lost to the night and music

the artist captures the monolithic form of a mountain covered in snow

Undiscovered in his lifetime and plagued with mental illness

Brett Whiteley 'Hullo (Cockatoo)' expressionism and her work is heldBirds recur throughout Brett Whiteleys work. As a child, he would steal eggs from nests and as an adult, paint them in his work. Forever moving around, he often thought of the flight paths of birds, his representations of them tinged with yearning for freedom and domestic stability. Hullo (Cockatoo) is a portrait of Australias most talkative bird, the cockatoo. It knocks at the cage, addressing the viewer with a hullo. From one perspective, it is a