Regional galleries worth the drive
Why Australia's regional public galleries reward a road trip, seven well-established ones to plan around, and how to fit a gallery into a weekend away.
NOTES FROM THE WALL
Looking, gallery-going, first works, framing and care
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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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Why Australia's regional public galleries reward a road trip, seven well-established ones to plan around, and how to fit a gallery into a weekend away.
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