THE British are being encouraged to overcome their "shameful ignorance" of Australian art by attending the most extensive exhibition of Australian works ever shown in the United Kingdom.
It was revealed on Thursday that the Prince of Wales will be the patron of the September exhibition which is simply called Australia.
"People in this country have been, historically, shamefully ignorant of Australian art," Royal Academy of Arts chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith said at the press launch in London.
"The exhibition will be, for everyone in this country, a great revelation."
The exhibition includes indigenous and non-indigenous art from 1800 to the present day.
It focuses on the influence of landscape and was several years in the making.
"There has never been an exhibition like this before," co-curator Kathleen Soriano from the Royal Academy said.
"This survey is long, long overdue."
The last major UK exhibition of Australian art was in the 1960s but it focused on contemporary works only.
The academy last hosted an Australian exhibition in the early 1920s.
The 2013 exhibition brings together works from the most important public collections in Australia.
Works by artists including Albert Namatjira, Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, Arthur Boyd, Brett Whiteley and Tracey Moffatt will be on display in London.
Controversial photographer Bill Henson will also be featured.
Judy Watson has been commissioned to create a new sculpture that will be displayed in the academy's courtyard.
Based on a bowerbird's mating structure it will be a larger version of an existing Watson work.
It will stand 6m high as opposed to the 2m-tall Fire and Water in Canberra.
"I'm hoping people will experience the strangeness of this structure encircling them and inviting people to walk through it," Watson told AAP.
The Australian government has contributed $200,000 towards the exhibition.
There's also $50,000 for other Australian events, such as screenings of indigenous films, on the sidelines.
Deputy high commissioner Andrew Todd says the government is "immensely proud" of the show.
"Artists can portray through moving images or still images a real sense of the history, the nature and the dilemmas that Australia faces," Mr Todd told AAP.
"This exhibition brings together iconic works of art from the past and works of art that will be iconic into the future."
The BBC will broadcast a three-part series on Australian art to coincide with the London exhibition.
The series will be presented by former Art Gallery of NSW director Edmund Capon.
The exhibition, organised in partnership with the National Gallery of Australia, opens on September 21 and will run until early December.
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