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Jan Nelson

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Jan Nelson

Since the mid 1980s, Melbourne artist Jan Nelson has explored ideas about 'woman' that focused on sex and reproduction. Through her 'domestically' crafted and endlessly reproducible objects of plaster and basket weaving, Nelson drew attention to the particular place...
Exhibition

Inherited Absolute: Artists with Children

Geoff Lowe, John R. Neeson, Jan Nelson, Siobhan Ryan, Imants Tillers Publication  Inherited Absolute: Artists with Children...
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The Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art: Selected Works

Peter Booth, Paul Boston, John Bursill, Philip Faulks, John Firth-Smith, Joe Furlonger, Robert Hunter, Michael Johnson, Tim Johnson, Angus Jones, Stephen Killick, Maria Kozic, Hilarie Mais, Victor Majzner, Linda Marrinon, Jan Nelson, Mike Parr, Stieg Persson, Nora Sumberg, Imants Tillers...
Exhibition

Swoon

Exhibiting Artists: Leslie Eastman, Dale Frank, Christopher Langton, Sean Melick, Jan Nelson, David Rosetzky, George Tillianakis Curator: Juliana Engberg Publication...
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Our Donors

Linda Herd Joanna Horgan & Peter Wetenhall Lou & Will McIntyre Katja Mouvlin & Travis John Ficarra Mark Nelson Bruce Parncutt AO Jan van Schaik Ursula Sullivan & Joanna Strumpf Daniela Valmorbida & Ian Blundell Watts Family Anonymous (1...
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Glimpse into the archive—

Each artist was given a room in the un-renovated Dallas Brooks Drive building and invited to paint as they desired.

3 Artists / 3 Rooms (1984)

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