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For love of Australian shearing sheds, and the golden light that is showcased in many of Australia's iconic paintings, artist Ivan Durrant shears shares the shed dream. My opinion of this historic and heroic painting, and of Tom Robert's relevance, has varied spectacularly over time.


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"Shearing the Rams" by Tom Roberts was painted in 1890 and depicted the Shearing of the sheep in a timber shearing shed. Roberts wanted to express the difficulty and fast working shearing process, and the physical masculinity is portrayed with the frequent arched bending of the shearers spread down into the depths of the shed.


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The Golden Fleece, originally known as Shearing at Newstead, is an 1894 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. The painting depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed at Newstead North, a sheep station near Inverell on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.


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Tom Roberts's large canvas, Shearing the rams (fig. 1) is popularly seen today as an archetypal vision of Australian pastoral life. With his considerable capacity for self-advertisement, Roberts did much to foster this notion.


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Tom Roberts Shearing the rams 1890 (detail). Oil on canvas on composition board, 122.4 x 183.3 cm; 170 x 230.4 x 9.5 cm (framed). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Felton Bequest, 1932. AGWA is home for the next few months to one of Australia's iconic colonial-era paintings.


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"Shearing the Rams" is one of the paintings that resulted from Roberts' stay. Completed in 1890, the large canvas is his most well-known painting, and numbers amongst Australia's most iconic artworks. It was quickly purchased and is on proud display at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne to date.


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30 Jan 21 - 28 Feb 21 In January 2021, Tom Roberts's Shearing the rams, 1890, tours to Wangaratta Art Gallery in regional Victoria. The tour marks 130 years since the completion of the work, which the artist began painting near Corowa, NSW, just over thirty minutes' drive from Wangaratta.


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Experience the work of legendary Australian artist Tom Roberts this summer at the NGA in Canberra. This extraordinary exhibition brings together Tom Roberts'.


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In 2021, a National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Collection favourite, Tom Roberts's Shearing the Rams, 1890, will tour to Wangaratta Art Gallery to coincide with the 130th anniversary of the work's execution near Corowa, NSW. The single display of this key work will occur for a limited period of four weeks from late January until late February 2021 and is exclusive to Wangaratta.


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It has now been 130 years since Tom Roberts, a renowned Australian artist who held a deep affinity for the Corowa district in NSW, began visiting a small but sturdy timber shearing shed on the fringe of a sprawling 30,000-acre property named Brocklesby Station. As the story goes Roberts was related to the property's then owner, Alexander.


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Tom Roberts's Shearing the rams is a response to the nationalistic sentiment that developed in Australia during the late nineteenth century. It reflects the emergence of a national identity defined through heroic rural activity and the economic importance of the wool industry.


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Shearing the Rams, The Iconic Australian Artwork | Widewalls A work of Australian impressionism, Shearing the Rams by Tom Roberts reflects the emergence of a national identity defined through heroic rural activity.


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Tom Roberts 'Shearing the rams' Published 2016 This video does not talk about Tom Roberts and his artwork, however was made for the Tom Roberts exhibition at NGA (4 Dec, 2015). It provides an inside look into a shearing shed in Jimenbuen, NSW.


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Shearing the Rams which measures 1.2 x 1.8m was brought by the National Gallery, Melbourne in 1932. Tom Roberts (1856-1931) Born in England, Tom came to Melbourne in 1869 with his widowed mother and two younger siblings, Alice and Richard. They lived in Collingwood and Tom worked with a number of photographers from the age of 13 years.


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Tom Roberts's Shearing the rams is a response to the nationalistic sentiment that developed in Australia during the late nineteenth century. It reflects the emergence of a national identity defined through heroic rural activity and the economic importance of the wool industry.


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Share Topic: australia paintings sheep wool Issue Section: Art and Occupation Jim Coffey, bearded 'champion of the shed' [ 1 ], back bent, muscles tensed, pipe strapped to his thigh, holds down a struggling ram with his powerful left arm while stripping a creamy white 'long blow' (full-length) fleece with a pair of 'tongs' (hand-shears).

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