Bill Henson, Untitled #39, Image via Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
There are about 30,000 professional practicing visual artists in Australia today (see note). By professional, I mean exhibiting regularly in recognised commercial or public galleries and represented in state collections. There are many thousands more who paint, pot, print, sculpt, work in textiles, are engaged in public art or street art and who may exhibit at various rotary club shows, show with art societies and at numerous community venues.
