Our Rooms

One of the hotel’s features is that our rooms are named after Australian artists.  The rooms and artists are Room 1 – Clifton Pugh, Room 2 – Clarice Beckett, Room 3 – Margaret Olley, Room 3A – Mirka Mora, Room 4 – Arthur Boyd, Room 5 – Brett Whiteley, Room 6 – John Olsen, Room 7 – Hans & Nora Heysen, Room 8 – Margaret Preston.

Below are short extracts of biographies on each artist that lead to longer articles.

Room 1 – Clifton Pugh
 

Clifton Pugh AO, (17 Dece 1924 – 14 Oct 1990) was an Australian artist and three-time winner of Australia’s Archibald Prize. He is considered one of Australia’s most renowned and successful post-World War Two painters. Close observation of nature and its cyclical and savage rhythms became a constant theme in Pugh’s painting. Arguably his best-known portrait is one in 1972 of Gough Whitlam. {Source Wikipedia]
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The queen ensuite room has air-conditioning, television, wifi, 24-hour tea and coffee-making facilities, a guest fridge, and ironing facilities. The room tariff includes a continental breakfast. If there is anything else, please feel free to ask.

Room 2 – Clarice Beckett

  

Clarice Beckett (21 March 1887 – 7 July 1935) was an Australian artist and a key member of the Australian tonalist movement. Known for her subtle, misty landscapes of Melbourne and its suburbs, Beckett developed a personal style that helped give rise to modernism in Australia. Disregarded by the art establishment during her lifetime and largely forgotten in the decades after her death, she is now considered one of Australia’s greatest artists. [Source Wikipedia]
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This queen room has an adjacent private bathroom, air conditioning, television, Wi-Fi, 24-hour tea and coffee-making facilities, a guest fridge, and ironing facilities. The room tariff includes a continental breakfast. If there is anything else, please feel free to ask.

Room 3 – Margaret Olley

Margaret Olley AC (24 June 1923 – 26 July 2011) was an Australian painter, the subject of more than ninety solo exhibitions. Olley is one of Australia’s most significant still-life and interior painters. She drew inspiration from her home and studio and the beauty of the everyday objects she gathered around her. A widely recognised figure in Australian art, she was a major benefactor to public institutions and the subject of two Archibald Prize-winning portraits. [Source Wikipedia]
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The room is a queen room with a nearby shared bathroom. The room has air-conditioning, television, wifi, 24hr tea and coffee-making facilities, a guest fridge, and ironing facilities. The room tariff includes a continental breakfast. If there is anything else, please feel free to ask.

Room 3A – Mirka Mora

  

Mirka Mora (18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of contemporary art in Australia and, in particular, to the public life of Melbourne. Her media included drawing, painting, sculpture and mosaic. [Source Wikipedia]
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The twin room has single beds and a nearby shared bathroom. The room has air-conditioning, television, wifi, 24-hour tea and coffee-making facilities, a guest fridge, and ironing facilities. The room tariff includes a continental breakfast. If there is anything else, please feel free to ask.

Room 4 – Arthur Boyd 

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd’s work ranges from impressionist renderings of the Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion (1947–48), now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Having a strong social conscience, Boyd’s work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame. [Source Wikipedia]
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The king room has an ensuite bathroom, an extra single bed, air conditioning, television, Wi-Fi, 24-hour tea and coffee-making facilities, a guest fridge, and ironing facilities. The room tariff includes a continental breakfast. If there is anything else, please feel free to ask.

Room 5 – Brett Whiteley

Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992). Whiteley is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. He won the Art Gallery of NSW Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes several times, and his artistic career was bolstered by his celebrity status in Australia and overseas. He worked across painting, sculpture and the graphic arts and is best known for his sensual and lyrical paintings of interiors, nudes and harbour scenes. [Source Wikipedia]
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The room is a queen-size ensuite with air conditioning, television, Wi-Fi, 24-hour tea and coffee-making facilities, a guest fridge, and ironing facilities. The room tariff includes a continental breakfast. If there is anything else, please feel free to ask.

Room 6 – John Olsen

John Olsen AO OBE (born 21 January 1928) is an Australian artist and the 2005 Archibald Prize winner. Olsen is one of Australia’s greatest living artists. Born in Newcastle, NSW, in 1928, Olsen is well known for his energetic and distinctive painting style and in particular, for his lyrical depiction of the landscape. He is a major figure in the story of Australian art, and his unique and sensual pictorial language presents a very personal view of the world. [Source Wikipedia]
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The king room has an ensuite bathroom, extra single bed, air-conditioning, television, wifi, 24-hour tea and coffee-making facilities, guest fridge, and ironing facilities. The room tariff includes a continental breakfast. If there is anything else, please feel free to ask.

Room 7 – Hans Heysen & Nora Heysen

 

Sir Hans Heysen OBE (8 October 1877 – 2 July 1968) was a German-born Australian artist. He became a household name for his watercolours of monumental Australian gum trees. He is one of Australia’s best known landscape painters. Heysen also produced images of men and animals toiling in the Australian bush and groundbreaking depictions of arid landscapes in the Flinders Ranges. He won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting a record nine times. [Source Wikipedia]
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Nora Heysen AM (11 January 1911 – 30 December 2003) was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize in 1938 for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist.

Nora was born in Hahndorf in 1911 and was the fourth child of Hans and Sallie Heysen. The Cedars was her home from 1912 until 1934. Nora’s extraordinary artistic talents were evident from an early age. From 1926 to 1930, she studied at the School of Fine Arts, North Adelaide. By 1933, Nora Heysen’s works had been acquired by the National Gallery of South Australia, the Queensland Art Gallery, the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Howard Hinton Collection at Armidale. [Source Wikipedia]
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The room is a queen with a private bathroom opposite an extra single bed, air-conditioning, television, wifi, 24-hour tea and coffee-making facilities, a guest fridge, and ironing facilities. The room tariff includes a continental breakfast. If there is anything else, please feel free to ask.

Room 8 – Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston (29 April 1875 – 28 May 1963) was an Australian painter and printmaker regarded as one of Australia’s leading modernists of the early 20th century.  In her quest to foster an Australian “national art”, she was also one of the first non-Indigenous Australian artists to use Aboriginal motifs. [Source Wikipedia]
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The queen ensuite room has air-conditioning, television, wifi, 24-hour tea and coffee-making facilities, a guest fridge, and ironing facilities. The room tariff includes a continental breakfast. If there is anything else, please feel free to ask.