Fred Williams revolutionised the way we see the Australian environment. This major retrospective highlights Williams's strength as a painter and includes a wide range of oil paintings and luminous gouaches, along with new material from the artist's diaries and his remarkable China sketchbook. Readers will experience a special opportunity to travel with Williams from the 1940s to his last works in 1981, from the figure studies of his student days in Melbourne and London to the groundbreaking landscapes, beachscapes and waterfalls of regional Victoria, and to subjects further afield in Bass Strait, the Cape York Peninsula and the magnificent Pilbara region in Western Australia.