Artwork: |
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| Magma Man, 2012 |
 Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| Australia | 78 |
| USA | 13 |
| France | 6 |
| Netherlands | 3 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
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Stills Gallery, Australia |
11 |
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Nellie Castan Gallery, Australia |
9 |
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Australian Centre for Photography, Australia |
8 |
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MGA - Monash Gallery of Art, Australia |
6 |
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L MD Art Gallery, France |
4 |
Biography: 
1960 Born in Melbourne, VIC (AU)
Scholarship 2002 Australian Post-Graduate Award (3 year award 202-2005)
Awards 2000 Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
2003 Arts Victoria Professional Development Grant
2003 Albury Regional Art Gallery National Photographic Purchase Award
2005 Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
2007 Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
2007 Arts Victoria, International Touring Grant
2009 Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
2009 Winner, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award
2010 Arts Victoria, International Touring Grant
2012 Visual Arts and Crafts Board, Australia Council, New Work Grant
External links:www.polixenipapapetrou.net | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 109
until 1.9.
until 1.6.
until 1.6.
Solo shows 39
2013
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC |
2012
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - The Dreamkeepers - Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC |
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| The Dreamkeepers - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Dreamkeepers - Artitled, Berghem |
2011
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| The Shadow Stage - Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre, Dandenong, VIC |
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| Between Worlds - L MD Art Gallery, Paris |
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| Polixeni Papapetrou: Tales from Elsewhere - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
2010
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| Between Worlds - Artitled, Berghem |
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Between Worlds - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Between Worlds - L MD Art Gallery, Paris |
2009
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Between Worlds - Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC |
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| Between Worlds - Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC |
2008
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Games of consequence - Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC |
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| Games of Consequence - Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC |
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| Polixeni Papapetrou:Games of Consequence - Foley Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Games of Consequence - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Wonderland - Warrnambool Art Gallery, Auchterarder, Perthshire (Scotland) |
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| Games of Consequence - Johnston Gallery, Mosman Park, WA |
2007
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| Haunted Country - - Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland (closed) |
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| Haunted Country - Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC |
2006
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| Haunted Country - Johnston Gallery, Mosman Park, WA |
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Haunted Contry - Foley Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Elvis Immortal - Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC |
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Haunted Country - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| A Most Curious Adventure - MGA - Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria |
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| Wonderland - Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, VIC |
2005
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| Go Ask Alice - Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW |
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| Dreamchild - Johnston Gallery, Mosman Park, WA |
2004
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| Phantomwse - MGA - Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria |
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Mystical Places - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2003
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| Dreamchild - Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC |
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| Phantomwise - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2002
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Olympia Masked - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC |
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| Searching for Marilyn - MGA - Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria |
2001
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Authority (Part II) - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
2000
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Authority - CCP - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC |
1999
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Olympia's Clothes - - Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (closed) |
1997
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| Elvis Immortal - Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC |
1996
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| Polixeni Papapetrou - Curated Bodies - CCP - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC |
Group shows 67
2013
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| Northern Lights - Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora, VIC |
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| Summer Exhibition - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2012
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| A curious nature – the landscape as theatre in contemporary photography and new media - Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC |
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| Season 12 - Garden Of Earthly Delights - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Terra Cognita - Photofestival Noorderlicht 2012 - Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen |
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| Photography Now - Jenkins Johnson Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Controversy: the power of art - Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC |
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| Hijacked 2 - Australien / Deutschland - Zephyr - Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim |
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| I Love My City Art Collection - Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD |
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| Bestiaire - Espace André Malraux, Herblay |
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| South Of The Border - Queensland Centre for Photography, Bulimba , QLD |
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| Man & Beast - - Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, NSW (closed, 2012) |
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| Freeze! The directorial turn in contemporary art - Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography - Aperture Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Wicked Twins: Fame & Notoriety - Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ |
2011
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| Tender is the Night - Marine Contemporary, Venice, CA |
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| Les Innommables grotesques - L MD Art Gallery, Paris |
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| Bowness Photography Prize 2011 - MGA - Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria |
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| 50th Anniversary of Korea-Australia Relations: New Worlds - The Museum of Photography, Seoul |
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| My Australia - Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei |
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| Bestiaire - VOZ’Galerie, Boulogne-Billancourt |
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| Celebrate Summer - Jenkins Johnson Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| HIJACKED 2: Australia/Germany - The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA |
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| Move! - L MD Art Gallery, Paris |
2010
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| Season10 - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Inside Out - Jenkins Johnson Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| Hijacked 2: Australia/Germany - MGA - Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria |
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| Hijacked 2 - Australia / Germany - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
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| duetto - Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA |
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| duetto - AEAF - Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA |
2009
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| Nothing out of the ordinary - Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC |
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| Alice's Mirror - Gallery SUN contemporary, Seoul |
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| Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2009 - Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD |
2008
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| FX in Contemporary Photography - McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, VIC |
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| Silver-lined: Contemporary artists and the Performing Arts Collection - The Arts Centre, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Artist File 2008 - The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo |
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| Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
2007
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| Living Elvis - RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? - Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau City |
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| Tell Me A Story: Narrative Photography Now - The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA |
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| On the Wall - Aperture Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Beyond Real: Dressing Up - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
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| Changeling - Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Morwell, VIC |
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| Picturing the Sea - The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Crawley WA |
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| Changeling - Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, TAS |
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| Changeling - Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC |
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| Changeling - Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin, QLD |
2005
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| Beyond Real - Part 1 Dressing Up - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
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| After Alice - Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| The 2005 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award - Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD |
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| Photographs From The Mga Collection - MGA - Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria |
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| Changeling - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
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| The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC |
2004
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| Changeling - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
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| The Line Between Us: The Maternal Relation in Contemporary Photography - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| Fair Game - The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC |
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| The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art - Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC |
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| MAKEbelieve photographic fictions - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2003
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| Stills on Campus - Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Fair Game: Art and Sport - The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Construct - 24HR Art, Darwin, NT |
2002
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| Photographica Australis - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
2001
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| Telling tales - the child in contemporary photography - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts - PICA, Perth, WA |
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| Telling Tales: the Child in Contemporary Photography - The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA |
2000
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| Telling tales: the child in contemporary photography - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| What John Berger Saw - The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA |
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| What John Berger Saw - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
| Dealer Directory 5 |
Australia
| | Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC
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| | Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW
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Netherlands
USA
| | Jenkins Johnson Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Jenkins Johnson Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Collections 16
Australia
| | Albury Art Gallery, Albury, NSW
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| | Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
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| | Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, VIC
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| | Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
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| | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
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| | Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
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| | Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, VIC
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| | The Arts Centre, Melbourne, VIC
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| | NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
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| | RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
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| | Gippsland Art Gallery - Sale, Sale, VIC
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| | Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW
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| | MGA - Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria
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United Kingdom
| | Warrnambool Art Gallery, Auchterarder, Perthshire (Scotland)
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USA
| | Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL
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