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Patterns of Landscape - Through the Eyes of Fred Williams 1927 - 1982

A detailed examination of the art of Australian landscape painter Fred Williams - an artist whose vision and works changed the way we view the Australian landscape.
Year : 1987 | Total Duration : 46 Minutes | Producer : Lisa Noonan (Associate Producer)
Director : Christina Wilcox |
High aerial track over flat pale orange outback landscape and salt flats.
Access No. 126337 | 24 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECU tilts and pans of Williams' landscape paintings often close enough to clearly see the weave of the linen.
Access No. 127419 | 30 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Fred Williams painting with ECUs of his face and swirling brush end in paint on palette and carefully applying paint in blobs on canvas. Grain of linen notable.
Access No. 127420 | 13 secs | 1980s | Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Excerpt of interview with painter Leonard French.
Access No. 127421 | 17 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECU and zoom out from Fred Williams Red Landscape painting then titles.
Access No. 127422 | 1 min 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Excerpts of interviews with Lyn Williams and James Mollison.
Access No. 127424 | 20 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Black & white photograph of Fred Williams in his studio mixing paint on palette.
Access No. 127425 | 22 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Ernie McClintock | Colour |
GS of Retrospective Exhibition of Fred Williams paintings in the Art Gallery of Western Australia. VS people viewing paintings. Extensive Vox Pops at exhibition with interviewees standing next to paintings they are talking about. Paintings include Burnt Landscape, Red Landscape, gouache seascapes, outback aerials and others.
Access No. 127426 | 1 min 3 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU early Williams oil painting ÒReclining NudeÓ, 1947-48.
Access No. 127427 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU early Williams oil painting ÒResting Figure LilydaleÓ, 1950.
Access No. 127428 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Early Williams oil painting ÒSelf PortraitÓ, 1943.
Access No. 127429 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Photograph of Fred Williams with fellow students from the art school of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Access No. 127430 | 7 secs | 1980s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Photograph of Fred Williams with fellow art student and nude painting in Melbourne.
Access No. 127431 | 7 secs | 1980s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview with artist Len French speaking of Williams' time in England.
Access No. 127432 | 35 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Photographs of Williams on building frame and zoom out from CU of sitting on ground painting, London.
Access No. 127433 | 18 secs | 1980s | London, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom out from photograph of Williams on London street probably with framing colleague.
Access No. 127434 | 11 secs | 1980s | London, UK | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with James Mollison talking about Williams' return from London.
Access No. 127435 | 19 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Long pan of flat landscape with scrub and distant mountain ranges.
Access No. 127436 | 20 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with James Mollison.
Access No. 127437 | 9 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU and zoom out from Williams' Mittagong gouache landscape painting ÒBurning LogÓ,1957.
Access No. 127438 | 13 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
CU and zoom out from Williams' gouache and watercolour landscape painting ÒSaplings, MittagongÓ,1958.
Access No. 127439 | 7 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
CUs of Williams' increasingly abstract linear gouache and watercolour paintings of gum trees. CU's of similar forest trees intercut with footage of paintings.
Access No. 127440 | 20 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU of photograph of Fred Williams outdoors seated on grass in front of large canvas. Tree painting propped up behind him.
Access No. 127441 | 11 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CUs and GS of Williams' black & white linear etching of trees.
Access No. 127442 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CUs of Williams' sugar aquatint; etching, aquatint, engraving ÒRed Trees. 1st stateÓ, 1958; and drypoint ÒLandscape Triptych I. 1st stateÓ, 1962.
Access No. 127443 | 7 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
CU of Williams' watercolour painting ÒRed TreesÓ, 1962.
Access No. 127444 | 3 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
CU and zoom of Williams' oil and tempera painting ÒSapling ForestÓ, 1962.
Access No. 127445 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
Footage of Fred Williams going through etching processes with VS of inking the plate, setting up the press and CU of inky hands turning wheel.
Access No. 127446 | 32 secs | 1980s | Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with James Mollison talking about gouache painting.
Access No. 127447 | 19 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Lyn Williams showing and talking about Fred Williams' large gouaches.
Access No. 127448 | 27 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Lyn Williams | Colour |
CU and GS oil painting, probably a version of ÒThe Forest PondÓ from the late 1950s.
Access No. 127449 | 14 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Footage of Fred Williams packing his car for painting expedition and driving POV passenger. Pan of landscape with the You Yangs granite hills rising in distance and close track over boulders.
Access No. 127450 | 58 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
ECUs of oil painting of You Yangs by Fred Williams.
Access No. 127451 | 26 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Gouache painting probably ÒKnoll in the You Yangs IÓ, 1963.
Access No. 127452 | 5 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
Oil painting similar to gouache ÒKnoll in the You Yangs IÓ, 1963. CUs and ECUs.
Access No. 127453 | 15 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS Fred Williams walking up hillside laden with painting gear, setting up and painting canvas amongst boulders and ground. CUs of Williams and the painting process and WS to rural landscape below with geometric fields and roads.
Access No. 127454 | 57 secs | 1980s | Australia | © ABC | Colour |
CUs and GS Fred Williams oil and tempera painting ÒYou Yangs Landscape IIÓ, 1963.
Access No. 127455 | 19 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
Interview with Lyn Williams talking about and showing the first Fred Williams Dandenong painting, a blue afternoon landscape, the first in the Upwey series.
Access No. 127456 | 19 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Lyn Williams | Colour |
CU and ECUs of oil painting ÒHillockÓ, 1965-66.
Access No. 127457 | 13 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview with painter Len French talking about Rudy Komon.
Access No. 127458 | 25 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Photograph of Fred Williams and another man with Rudy Komon.
Access No. 127459 | 21 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Gwen Frolich | Colour |
VS Fred Williams stretching canvas in his studio with other paintings in the background.
Access No. 127461 | 41 secs | 1980s | Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Interview with James Mollison talking about Williams' work output.
Access No. 127462 | 21 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU of photograph of Fred and Lyn Williams with daughter taken circa 1972.
Access No. 127463 | 7 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Mark Stryzic | Colour |
Zoom out from photograph of Fred Williams in armchair in living room at Hawthorn, Melbourne.
Access No. 127464 | 7 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Ernie McClintock | Colour |
Photograph of Fred Williams with child on knee.
Access No. 127465 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Ernie McClintock | Colour |
CU of photograph from Fred Williams' diary of Fred with three daughters then zoom out to show diary with several other photographs.
Access No. 127466 | 10 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Lyn Williams | Colour |
ECU and pull out from colour photograph of Fred Williams in front of Red Gorge painting, circa 1981.
Access No. 127467 | 39 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Rennie Ellis | Colour |
ECUs thumbnail sketches from Fred Williams' diary and Lyn Williams speaking of them. Good CUs of the diaries' contents with Lyn flipping through them. CUs photos in diaries.
Access No. 127468 | 42 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Lyn Williams | Colour |
Interview with artist Len French discussing Fred Williams' diaries.
Access No. 127469 | 38 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECUs brushstrokes on various Fred Williams paintings.
Access No. 127470 | 25 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Zoom and ECU pans of honey coloured landscape paintings by Fred Williams probably from the ÒAustralian LandscapeÓ series.
Access No. 127471 | 34 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Pan of green fields and rolling hills.
Access No. 127472 | 11 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS polymer painting ÒLysterfield IIÓ, 1974 by Fred Williams.
Access No. 127473 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
VS painting in greens by Fred Williams similar in style to ÒLysterfield IIÓ.
Access No. 127474 | 3 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview with James Mollison.
Access No. 127475 | 18 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs and zoom out from gouache painting ÒAustralian Landscape IÓ, 1974 in yellow tones with small marks.
Access No. 127476 | 32 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
Interview with photographer David Moore who demonstrates Fred Williams' painting technique.
Access No. 127477 | 54 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Photograph of Fred Williams painting while standing.
Access No. 127478 | 9 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
ECUs and CU from one of Fred Williams' gouache paintings of the ÒAustralian LandscapeÓ series.
Access No. 127479 | 9 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Zoom out from photograph of Fred Williams in studio,1969.
Access No. 127480 | 17 secs | 1980s | Australia | © David Vevral | Colour |
VS two photographs, ÒFred Williams at You Yangs with canvas upside downÓ and ÒFred Williams and John Percival at the You YangsÓ showing Williams plein air painting, starting painting upside-down.
Access No. 127481 | 16 secs | 1980s | You Yangs, Vic, Australia | © Anne Hall | Colour |
Bushfire footage intercut with Upwey fire paintings including ÒBurnt Landscape IIÓ, 1968 using gouache, clay, and charcoal.
Access No. 127482 | 30 secs | 1980s | Upwey, Vic, Australia | © ABC & ANG | Colour |
Upwey fire painting by Fred Williams.
Access No. 127483 | 12 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview with Lyn Williams with her showing and talking about various post-fire paintings by Fred Williams intercut with black & white photographs of Williams in burnt landscape.
Access No. 127485 | 1 min 8 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Lyn Williams | Colour |
Interview with James Mollison.
Access No. 127487 | 16 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs Fred Williams oil painting ÒLandscape Ô74Ó, 1974-75 in yellow tones.
Access No. 127488 | 8 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
Footage of Fred Williams painting large yellow toned ÒLandscape Ô74Ó, 1974-75. Good shots of Williams mixing paint on palettes.
Access No. 127489 | 23 secs | 1980s | Australia | © ABC | Colour |
ECUs and VS colourful Fred Williams landscape oil painting ÒLandscape with a GooseÓ, 1974.
Access No. 127490 | 15 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
GS of industrial landscape followed by Fred Williams' painted interpretation.
Access No. 127491 | 15 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
GS of ripples on the sea and WS with headland overlaid with faint images of Fred Williams' paintings of similar scenes.
Access No. 127492 | 10 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU gouache strip painting of seascape in grey/blue tones.
Access No. 127493 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Home movie footage of Fred Williams, wife Lyn and three daughters and painter Fraser Fair holidaying on the coast.
Access No. 127494 | 20 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Fraser Fair | Colour |
Interview with painter Fraser Fair.
Access No. 127495 | 12 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Slow track of the sea.
Access No. 127496 | 10 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Slow ECU track of Fred Williams' painting of the sea then WS.
Access No. 127497 | 21 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
GS of headland and sea around Walkerville on Waratah Bay near Wilsons Promontory and high shot of bathing huts on beach.
Access No. 127498 | 8 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs of entries from Fred Williams' diary including photographs of his daughters on the beach and the family including Williamson the rocks . Interview with Lyn Williams. Small piece of home movie footage of Williams painting amongst the rocks.
Access No. 127499 | 1 min 20 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Lyn Williams | Colour |
Home movie holiday footage of Williams and family at the seaside. Good playful CUs and GS of beach and sea.
Access No. 127500 | 33 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Fraser Fair? | Colour |
CUs of one of Fred Williams' first Ômasked' gouache paintings in tones of blue and grey.
Access No. 127503 | 7 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview with James Mollison speaking about Fred Williams' masked gouaches.
Access No. 127504 | 12 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs and VS Fred Williams' Ômasked' gouache painting ÒBeachscape with Bathers, Queenscliff IVÓ. Good ECUs showing marks and tonings.
Access No. 127505 | 47 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
Footage of Victorian coastline and sea around Erith Island divided into three strips imitating format of Fred Williams' Ômasked' seaside gouache paintings.
Access No. 127506 | 8 secs | 1980s | Erith Island, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Various colour photographs taken on a painting expedition around a Bass Strait island with fellow artists Clifton Pugh, Stephen Murray-Smith and historian Ian Turner. Photographs of Fred Williams, and of Williams plein air sketching the sea with fellow artist Clifton Pugh.
Access No. 127507 | 12 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview with artist Stephen Murray-Smith.
Access No. 127508 | 8 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Black & white photograph of Fred Williams in his studio painting trees.
Access No. 127509 | 11 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Ernie McClintock | Colour |
GS two early Williams gouache seaside paintings.
Access No. 127510 | 14 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Zoom out from cliff face around Mittagong and GS smoking log in forest.
Access No. 127511 | 15 secs | 1980s | Mittagong, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
GS bush around Mittagong and aerial of thick forest tree tops.
Access No. 127512 | 8 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Slow zoom to slender white gums in forest around Mittagong.
Access No. 127513 | 6 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECUs and GS of one of Fred Williams' Upwey landscape series in oil.
Access No. 127514 | 22 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CUs Fred Williams' diary with several thumbnail sketches and photographs (circa mid-1960s). Interview with Lyn Williams then interview with painter Len French speaking of Rudy Komon.
Access No. 127515 | 47 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU track over montage of photographs from Bass Strait trip and still life paintings of dead fish, shells. Photograph of Williams near sea with strip gouaches.
Access No. 127516 | 19 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU four panel ÒmaskedÓ gouache from the Erith Island series.
Access No. 127517 | 4 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU four panel ÒmaskedÓ gouache ÒBeachscape, Erith Island IÓ, 1974 with ECUs over painted marks and glued sand details.
Access No. 127518 | 20 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Colour |
Aerials over white cliffs of island with views across islands and sea.
Access No. 127519 | 40 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs over gouache Òmasked Ò Erith Island beach paintings.
Access No. 127520 | 24 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Zoom out from tree reflected in water to GS Kew Billabong. VS reeds, banks etc.
Access No. 127521 | 19 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECUs of Fred Williams painting of Kew billabong with brush marks similar in style to French impressionist painters.
Access No. 127522 | 21 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS of two Fred Williams' paintings of Kew Billabong, one with browns and pastel colours and the other with a dark blue background. Sequence is intercut with a quick GS of dry branches and the still waters of Kew Billabong seen through trees.
Access No. 127523 | 26 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview with James Mollison regarding Williams' style and technique.
Access No. 127524 | 27 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs of Williams' own books and box of postcards he'd accumulated with CUs on postcards by various artists scattered on table. CUs of Asian motifs and images Williams painted in books.
Access No. 127525 | 1 min | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview with painter Fraser Fair talking about Werribee Gorge and high shot over the Gorge.
Access No. 127526 | 19 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs Fred Williams' diary with black & white photos of Werribee Gorge. VS two large finished paintings of Werribee Gorge with CUs to broken lines and details.
Access No. 127527 | 33 secs | 1980s | Vic, Australia | © Lyn Williams | Colour |
CUs and ECUs of series of Fred Williams' black paintings with bright red and white linear designs of outback bushfires at night as seen from air including ÒCape York Bushfires I & IIÓ.
Access No. 127528 | 1 min 11 secs | 1980s | Australia | © National Gallery of Victoria | Colour |
CUs and zooms of Fred Williams' paintings of aerial outback landscapes. VS paintings featuring rocks on gallery walls.
Access No. 127529 | 1 min 25 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Various pans, CUs and tracks of red outback rocks, some with aboriginal carvings.
Access No. 127530 | 58 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Fred Williams brown and white etching of birds similar in style to Aboriginal rock carvings intercut with footage of outback rocks.
Access No. 127531 | 16 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU tracks of Fred Williams' gouache Pilbara landscape of undulating hills and desert.
Access No. 127532 | 10 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Footage of Pilbara landscapes with screen divided into three to resemble Williams' strip style of gouache paintings.
Access No. 127533 | 11 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
GS and zoom to Williams' larger studio strip paintings of Pilbara landscapes.
Access No. 127534 | 14 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © Lyn Williams? | Colour |
Track down Pilbara hillside with sparse trees and yellowish grassy landscape.
Access No. 127535 | 7 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU tilt down photograph with grassy hill to Fred Williams in profile painting at easel.
Access No. 127536 | 7 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © Possibly NFSA | Colour |
Zoom across outback Pilbara landscape.
Access No. 127537 | 5 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © Possibly NFSA | Colour |
Fade from outback Pilbara landscape to Fred Williams painting of same with slow zoom out to reveal undulating hills and whole painting on wall.
Access No. 127538 | 28 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Quick track over rocky red hillside.
Access No. 127539 | 4 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECUs and zoom outs of colourful Fred Williams Pilbara oil landscapes.
Access No. 127541 | 52 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Track of red and green Pilbara landscape.
Access No. 127543 | 5 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU track of Fred Williams Pilbara cliffs and FS of landscape. CUs and zoom outs of red Pilbara landscape paintings.
Access No. 127545 | 1 min 3 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Slow tracks and aerials of dramatic red Pilbara cliffs and landscape.
Access No. 127546 | 46 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CUs and zoom out of reddish pink Fred Williams painting.
Access No. 127547 | 13 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aerials over red and green outback landscapes.
Access No. 127548 | 21 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECU and zoom out from Fred Williams speckled red landscape painting.
Access No. 127549 | 20 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aerials over outback landscape and river gorges.
Access No. 127550 | 12 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU tracks over Fred Williams landscape painting in orange and ochre tones.
Access No. 127551 | 5 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aerial over multi toned and patterned outback landscape.
Access No. 127552 | 27 secs | 1980s | WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |