‘Strange Country-Why Australian Painting Matters’ with Dr Margaux Dombkins

Renowned Author, Art Critic, and Gallery Director, Patrick McCaughey in conversation with Dr Margaux Dombkins on Arts Monday. Patrick discusses his new book ‘Strange Country – Why Australian Painting Matters’ in which he turns his expert gaze to the gap between international ignorance of Australian art and the undeniable power and originality of work produced in this country. Patrick demonstrates not only why Australian art matters but why it should matter more beyond our national frontiers and rightfully take its place amongst the visual languages of humankind. The title ‘Strange Country’ is from the last lines of Randolph Stow’s To the Islands, which captured for Patrick the great inwardly held vision of artists.

‘Strange Country – Why Australian Painting Matters’

is published by The Miegunyah Press, an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing (MUP).

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Thanks for your company

Margaux