Australian Drawing Now: Labouring Lightly

The on again/off again love affair between drawing and contemporary art practice seems to have been going on ad nauseam. From the sixties through to the present day, ongoing tensions between the apparent values of traditional and conceptual art have resulted in much of today's appreciation for the reworking of both aesthetics in what has become a new labour of love.

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Pixel Perfect: The Craft of Photography in the Age of Digital Reproduction.

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Fine Art Graduate and Honours Exhibitions Beyond

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