Jo Rootsey: Painting Country

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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
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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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