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Grace’s Home Through the Looking Glass

Posted on January 1, 2016 by maryannadair

Grace Cossington Smith Door Into the Garden, 1959. Oil on composition board. – Bendigo Art Gallery. Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia, Grace Cossington Smith was born Grace Smith, on 20 April 1892 in Neutral Bay, Sydney. … Continue reading →

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How Rachel’s Goodsir became My Fair Lady

Posted on August 20, 2015 by maryannadair

In only 90 years, we have come full circle where we can once again be shocked by seeing a “Girl With Cigarette”.  Captured as a nouvelle societal attitude receptor of its day, Australian born artist Agnes Goodsir (ca. 1925) painted … Continue reading →

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One day… all of Australia is going to know my name

Posted on June 29, 2015 by maryannadair

“Yeah, whatever, Dad” is what the teenage daughter of Eddie Mabo replied to her father when he promised her: “One day, my girl, all of Australia is going to know my name.” (The Australian June 1, 2012) Eddie Koiki Mabo … Continue reading →

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