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Five writers, each with a corner of the wall: landscape and history, galleries and photographs, framing and care, first purchases, and books.
Lachlan Pryor
Lachlan Pryor writes about Australian landscape painting and the painters who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s. He grew up in the Hunter Valley and lives in Sydney's inner west, a short train ride from the state gallery he visits most weekends.
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Mei-Ling Stroud
Mei-Ling Stroud covers gallery-going and photography: openings, prizes, room sheets and the way a show is hung. She lives in Sydney, shoots film on weekends and keeps a shoebox of exhibition invitations going back years.
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Fenella Garrick
Fenella Garrick writes about framing, hanging and looking after art at home, from mat board to picture rails. She lives in Melbourne in a 1920s house with its original picture rails and firm opinions about hooks.
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Jasper Quayle
Jasper Quayle writes for people buying their first original work: budgets, editions, certificates and the questions worth asking before paying. He lives in Brisbane, where his hallway is mostly prints and picture hooks.
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Ottilie Ellwood
Ottilie Ellwood writes about looking slowly, art history and the books worth keeping on the shelf. She lives in Hobart and reads exhibition catalogues the way other people read novels.
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