Margaret Preston: Australia’s most beloved and contested artist?
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia has staged the first Preston retrospective in 20 years, exploring what was gained and flattened in her quest to create a singular Australian aestheticHanging at the entrance of the new Margaret Preston exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria are three of her instantly recognisable still lifes. Each depicts a vase brimming with native flora: bell-shaped gumnuts, silvery eucalyptus leaves and bristly banksias. These are identifiably Australian plants, painted in what might be described…
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