Its a debatable point as to if Australian art ever really had a true modernist movement in the same sense as was seen in Europe and the US early last century. However painters who were influenced by such a dramatic shift in aesthetics - Sidney Nolan, John Olsen, Arthur Boyd, John Brack etc. - continue to dominate the market place. Even artists from the next generation after these innovators - such as Tim Storrier and Brett Whiteley - are engaging with the shifts in perception that modernism let loose. In the case of Storrier it is curious that he is often labeled as a conservative painter. I would argue that although Storrier's art is clear and exact in its representational nature the juxtaposition of imagery - such as TV sets in the desert - adds a distinctly modern and even surreal quality to his work.

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