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Touring the Wynne Prize

The Wynne Prize, Australia’s oldest art prize, will tour regional NSW for the first time in its 125-year history.

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Installing Sol LeWitt's ‘Wall drawing #955, Loopy Doopy (red and purple)’

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Conservation treatment of Margaret Coen’s ‘Flowers with peacock feathers’

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Conservation Collection Painting 20th-century galleries
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Kent Monkman’s ‘The allegory of painting’

At a glance, this painting from 2015 could be mistaken for a work from a much earlier period. ‘I want to make the contemporary feel historic and the historic feel contemporary,’ artist Kent Monkman has said.

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Flowers with peacock feathers

Careful conservation treatment has restored the rich, sumptuous colour of Margaret Coen’s gorgeous still-life painting, which now has a new frame befitting the style of this Sydney Modern artist.

Conservation Collection Painting 20th-century galleries
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Badu Gili: Wonder Women – Sally M Nangala Mulda

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Artists Collection Painting Indigenous Australian
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Badu Gili: Wonder Women – Marlene Rubuntja

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Artists Collection Painting Indigenous Australian
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Aboriginal artists and sitters in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2022

It’s a record-breaking year for Aboriginal artists and sitters in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2022.

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Rhapsody in blue

The colour blue was important to artist Brett Whiteley and he used it across various mediums, particularly in his ceramics.

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Badu Gili: Wonder Women – Elaine Russell

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Artists Collection Painting Indigenous Australian
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In the Frame: Sarah Brown, Bobby West Tjupurrula and Coby Edgar

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Events and programs Artists Painting Indigenous Australian The Purple House
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Culture Dose 10: Self-reflection

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Events and programs Learning Sculpture Painting Drawing Access

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