Jo Rootsey: Painting Country

Cover of Jo Rootsey: Painting Country
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Between worlds: Belinda Mason and Blur Projects
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Alasdair Foster

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Body, remember: Wrap me in a sister cloak
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Ali Gumillya Baker

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Regimes of care: Concerning the afterlife of artists
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Robert Cook

Published 01 September 2020
ACE Open
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The idea of redemption: Artmaking in prison
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Alasdair Foster

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On thin ice: Creating a life beyond addiction
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Ginger Gorman

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Flesh after fifty: Changing images of older women in art
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Jacqueline Millner

Published 01 September 2020
Bill Morrow
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How can I live in your world? Empathic strategies in contemporary Asian art
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Reuben Keehan

Published 01 September 2020
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Shahidul Alam: You're blocking the sun
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Kelly Hussey-Smith

Published 01 September 2020

Dina Ibrahim looks at the Joe Rootsey Retrospective curated by Bruce McLean at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2010 to find an artist who in his short life achieved compelling evocations of his relationship to country.

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