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The Amaze Gallery at the State Library of NSW

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Curator Elise Edmunds made a welcome return to Arts Wednesday on 14 April 2021 to talk about the new display at the Amaze Gallery at the State Library of NSW. Highlights include Fake truths: An historical novel – a collection of paintings and stories in response to items in the Library’s collection – by artist Hadyn Wilson (Artist in Residence, 2020); portraits of prominent women by Sydney artist Peter Kingston; illustrated logbooks of the voyage of the Kathleen Gillett (1947–48) by Jack Earl, one of the founders of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race; and a selection of rare books by Italian poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri.