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Coalesce, 1993, oil on canvas, 173 x 305cm, photographer Effy Alexakis

Suzanne Archer: Moving Forwards, Looking Back: A Survey 1969–2016
  • Rex Butler


7 Jan 2017
⬤ Nicholas Thompson Gallery 1 Jan - 1 Feb 2017

When the well-known painter Gareth Sansom opened Suzanne Archer’s show at the Nicholas Thompson Gallery in December, he made the rather large claim that two of the paintings—Coalesce (1993) and Ant holes and Bandy-Bandy (1994)—were the best he’d seen in Melbourne all year.

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Artists: Suzanne Archer

Rex Butler teaches Art History in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University.

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