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Sublime: 25 years of the Wesfarmers Collection
Since the 19th century, in addition to depicting the sublime in nature, artists have explored the idea in the full range of human experience: in the realm of the psyche and the spirit and in the interconnections between people, nature and the wider cosmos. This exhibition surveyed the diversity of holdings in the Wesfarmers Collection…
Romanticism and Reason – Australian Jewellery 1955-1997
This exhibition traced the evolution of Australian contemporary jewellery practice through the work of 17 eminent makers selected from the Art Gallery of Western Australia Collection. Romanticism was explored in the work of makers who identified with the ideal of the independent artisan, connected to the process of making through skill and intimate knowledge of…