Romancing the Skull

2017-11-01 02:01

From blog Finding Femme

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Romancing the Skull

Ballarat is home to the oldest regional art gallery in Australia. During the first Archibald Prize hosting that the gallery undertook years ago, my family were sitting with Julie, the curator, and she began telling us about the exhibition she was working on for 2017. Two years later with her passion remains as undimmed as pink neon, she invited us to the gallery for a dark dinner and secret viewing of the exhibition. The exhibition, ‘Romancing the Skull’, is an exploration of the human relationship with death and mortality. The content combines the work of local artists with international names and historic pieces. I was anxious that my lack...

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