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James Gleeson ~ “The Attitude of Lightning Towards a Lady Mountain”, 1939 James Gleeson (22 November 1915 – 20 October 2008) was Australia’s foremost surrealist painter, being widely known as the “father of Australian surrealism”. Gleeson’s fascination with the burgeoning surrealist movement began in the ’30s and continued growing through the ’40s when the artist’s travels took him around Europe, offering opportunities to see first hand the work of Salvador Dali and Giorgio de Chirico. At this time he became interested in the writings of psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. These would become major intellectual influences for his art.

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