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The Update - June 14, 2016

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ABR Arts 14 June 2016

The Update - June 14, 2016

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ABR Arts 14 June 2016

Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

Don't miss two outstanding exhibitions at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne: Susan Norrie: Field Work 2006–2016 (on now until 3 July) and Max and Olive: the photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain (on now until 24 July). The latter show explores the photographs taken by Cotton and Dupain between 1934 and 1945 (when they were married). During those rich and productive years, they produced their most famous modernist work. ABR readers will remember Helen Ennis's ABR George Hicks Foundation Fellowship essay 'Olive Cotton at Spring Forest', published in 2013.

Susan Norrie's masterful new video work aftermath builds on her work HAVOC (2006–07), which impressed Arts Update at the 2007 Venice Biennale. The new work further explores the site of the infamous Lusi mud volcano in eastern Java, Indonesia. Norrie's assured camerawork, fine editing, and subdued palette have produced a compelling and moving work of drama and beauty.

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