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Visual Arts
Frank Watters and Geoffrey Legge, c.1974. Photograph Gerrit Fokkema, courtesy Watters Gallery
50-years is an eternity in any relationship, let alone the survival of a commercial gallery.
This week SH Ervin Gallery celebrated the remarkable half century of the Watters Gallery with an exhibition that “cherry-picked” five decades of painting and sculpture, works loaned back from prominent public and private collections.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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