Terra Incognita: the sublime, the uncanny and nostalgia in painting the landscape Australian

This paper is written in four parts: Melancholy and the Colonial in Australia, the Sublime with Aspects of the Picturesque, the Strange - Freud's Unheimlich, the Uncanny, and a journal on the author's travel through Central Australia. The above is explored and shown how they continue to shape Australian identity, the author's painting practices and that of other Australian artists.