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FOR PRESS: PM. No. 19/ 1970
EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY-AU' ITAIAN ART
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A collection of contemporary Australian art, is aboutto go
on exhibition in South-East Asia.
Opening in Singapore on Friday, the exhibition will
subsequently be seen in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and
Indonesia. It will return to Australia in mid-June.
The exhibition comprises 46 paintings, prints and
sculptures. It has been selected by the Commonwealth Art Advisory
Board from the National Collection and private collections.
This is the second opportunity for Australian art to be seen
by Australia's neighbours in Asia. The first exhibition, which toured
the area in 1962, showed something of the development of Australian
art. The present exhibition is by way of a postscript to the sixties and
a prelude to the seventies and represents the youngest generation of
Australian arti~ its to have won critical acclaim.
Mr James Mollison, the Exhibitions Officer of the Prime
Minister' s Department and formerly Director of the Ballarat Art
Gallery, will travel with the exhibition and will lecture on Australian
art in the countries visited.
CANBERRA, 22 January 1970
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The names and works of the artists represented in the exhibition are
on the Press Gallery Notice Board.