Brett Whiteley 'Hullo (Cockatoo)' expressionism An edition of 40

An edition of 40

the artist captures the monolithic form of a mountain covered in snow

Part of the Jungle Chronicles

Auguste Blackman captures a resting bird

Undiscovered in his lifetime and plagued with mental illness

Brett Whiteley 'Hullo (Cockatoo)' expressionism An edition of 40Birds recur throughout Brett Whiteleys work. As a child, he would steal eggs from nests and as an adult, paint them in his work. Forever moving around, he often thought of the flight paths of birds, his representations of them tinged with yearning for freedom and domestic stability. Hullo (Cockatoo) is a portrait of Australias most talkative bird, the cockatoo. It knocks at the cage, addressing the viewer with a hullo. From one perspective, it is a