Fred Williams in the You Yangs

Fred Williams in the You Yangs brought together the ground-breaking paintings, drawings and etchings that represent the turning point in Fred Williams’s art. 

Williams started working in the You Yangs in 1962. It is his work of this period that defined what is commonly considered his ‘classic’ interpretation of the Australian landscape. This exhibition revealed Williams’s enduring fascination with the You Yangs as a recurring subject (among others) for his painting throughout the 1960s to the late 1970s, and surveyed in marvellous depth the artist’s working method.

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Fred Williams in virtual reality
Step inside one of Williams’ paintings and wander the rugged Australian landscape of the You Yangs
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Events

Learn Space—Our landscape: Lewis Brownlie
18 August to 15 October

In conversation: Fred Williams—Jason Smith, Lyn Williams and Daniel Thomas
Saturday 19 August
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First Friday: Kirsty Grant—Fred Williams’s
printmaking practice
Friday 1 September

Outreach—Rediscovering the You Yangs
Saturday 7 October

After hours at Geelong Gallery—Fred Williams in the You Yangs
Friday 13 October

Floortalk: The landscape—Irena Zdanowicz
Saturday 14 October