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Reverie

Dates:
17 May – 22 June 2006

Artists:
Charles Blackman, Lynne Boyd, Peter Graham, Graeme Hare, Siri Hayes, Louise Hearman, Nicola Loder, Rosslynd Piggott, Ronnie van Hout

Curator:
Kirrily Hammond

Location:
Switchback Gallery
Monash University, Gippsland Campus

Emerging from the Romantic and Symbolist traditions, the evocative and enigmatic works in Reverie presented alternative realms where the imagination is allowed free reign.

Drawn together from the Monash University Collection, the works in this exhibition had in common an ambiguity of form and meaning that relies on the viewer’s intuition to decipher and interpret them.

Exhibition Catalogue:
Reverie

^{Image: Charles Blackman, Drifting 1966–67, lithograph on paper. Monash University Collection, Melbourne}

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