1. CONCILIATION, THE Executed in 1840 by Benjamin Buterrau, this was Australia's first 'history' painting. The film relates the sad fate of the Tasmanian Aborigines who were persuaded to leave their tibal lands and move to a settlement on Flinders Island. 2. EPIPHANY This powerful, sombre painting (1962) is a splendid example of Ian Fairweather's art at its most complex and spiritual. The film scrutinises and illuminates the intricacies of the work, drawing on rarely seen related works from privated collections. 3. LAKE ST. CLAIR William Charles Piquenit, the first Australian born professional painter, developed his art as a landscape painter while working with the Tasmanian government's survey department. Whilst his work declined in popularity with the rest of Australian Impressionists, Piquenit's subtle and brilliant technique comes through strongly in this film. 4. MAN FEEDING HIS DOG This small, but powerful painting (1941) hauntingly combines starkness with lyricism. It is a key work in Ruseel Drysdale's oeuvre. In narration especially recorded for the film, the artist speaks of his problems in painting the work and of the realiationsip between, man and landscape. 5. MOTHER, THE The Mother (1907) by George Lambert, is a portrait group, rich full in tone, painted in bold, sweeping curves.It shows Lambert's wife, their two sons and their friend, the artist Thea Proctor. The film reveals the range and qualtity of Lamberts's best work from various periods of his life as painter, war artist and sculptor. 6. MOUNT WILLIAM FROM MOUNT DRYDEN The film reveals how Eugen Von Guerard's training in the naturalistic German school of Romanticism, coupled with his strong feeling for geometry and composition , enabled him to produce paintings that express reverence for Nature's mysterious processes as well as an appreciation of the splendours of the Australian landscape. 7. SPIRIT OF EMU PLAINS, THE This is undoubtedly Sydney Long's finest work (1897) . A synthesis of decorati