Fine arts and images — Australian

This site provides information on the various grants that are available, how to apply for them and links to various arts organisations.

Images and information about prints and printmaking, posters, and book arts from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, Maori and Pakeha Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region including Nuie, Samoa, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands.

Order archival quality prints of the Age, Sydney Morning Herald or Sun Herald newspaper front pages. Call 1300 136 466 to order pages before 1945.

An online gallery of 629 drawings and watercolours by artists of the First Fleet in the collections of Library of the Natural History Museum, London. The works are attributed to George Raper, Thomas Watling, and the artist known as the Port Jackson Painter.

Website for people to store, search, sort and share photos. Individuals can now contribute to PictureAustralia - a web service which provides a single point of access to digitised images from many of Australia's leading cultural institutions. You may now load photos into PictureAustralia's two groups on FlickR: PictureAustralia: Australia Day and PictureAustralia: People, places and Events.

An index to reproductions of Australian artworks in books and exhibition catalogues.

Historical information on artist's pigments and the history of making paint from 100,000BC to the present. Includes definitions that clarify the differences between paint, ink, and other artists materials, and a directory of where artists and conservators can find obsolete and historic materials. Also includes information on how to make paint and related safety data.

Search and browse more than 130 000 captions and more than 10 000 images from the National Archives' photographic collection.

The State Library of NSW contributes pictures and records from PICMAN to PictureAustralia. PictureAustralia is a web service which provides a single point of access to digitised images from many of Australia's leading cultural institutions.

This site provides links to ANU library catalogues, electronic journals, general art sites, art schools, galleries and museums.