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A Melbourne Mood Cool Contemporary Art

A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art

Dates:
13 July – 14 August 1983

Artists:
Howard Arkley, Jonas Balsaitis, Jenny Bannister, Frank Bendinelli, John Brack, Jeffrey Bren, Mike Brown, Ian Burn, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, William Delafield Cook, Peter Cripps, Janet Dawson, James Doolin, Lesley Dumbrell, John Dunkley-Smith, Ivan Durrant, Sue Ford, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Bob Jenyns, Maria Kozic, Michael Lee,Bea Maddock, Clement Meadmore, Clive Murray-White, John Nixon, Ti Parks, Paul Partos, Mel Ramsden, Robert Randall, Ian Robertson, Robert Rooney, Peter Rosman, Sam Schoenbaum, Edwin Tanner, Eric Thake, Peter Tyndall, Trevor Vickers, Les Walkling, Jenny Watson, Gary Willis, David Wilson, Michael Young

Curator:
Peter Cripps

Opened by:
Bruce Pollard

Location:
Australian National Gallery at Melville Hall
Australian National University, Canberra

Touring:
Exhibition Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
1 March – 4 April 1984

^{Image: Dale Hickey, Untitled 1969, oil on canvas, 173.1 x 172.8 cm. Monash University Collection, Melbourne}

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