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Mr Marguerite Byrd?

Dorothy Wilding Display. Curated by Sarah Grant a commentary on women’s identity through the lens of Dorothy Wilding and the pen of Tonia Collett....

Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini, born in Sierra Leone and raised in Australia, has established herself as a distinctive voice in contemporary art through her hyper-realistic sculptures....

We Cry in Silence

Smita Sharma's book "We Cry in Silence" investigates the widespread issue of trafficking minors for sex between Bangladesh, Nepal and India....

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Kashmir: The Making of a Family Album

The family photos from this series, symbolically remind us of the inevitability of the past, loss and death. The constructed images are replete with memories that can neither be touched nor altered, only re-lived in our imaginations on an endless loop.
PlanetHeroines
12th January 2023
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Kashmir: The Chandelier

Conceived as a decorative piece, this mushroom-shaped chandelier was made using over 3600 pages of legal correspondence between the courts, petitioners, and respondents in Kashmir. This piece draws parallels to the perfectly taxidermized busts and heads of kills that camouflages the violence underneath.
PlanetHeroines
12th January 2023
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Margaret Gross Michaelis-Sachs

Margarethe (Margaret) Gross was born in 1902 into a Jewish family in Dzieditz, near Cracow, in what was then Austria (now Poland). Her liberal upbringing led her to studying photography at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Research in Vienna, followed by apprenticeships in some of the leading Viennese studios of the…
PlanetHeroines
15th December 2022