Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

The Margaret Preston retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria is a revelation

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University

The National Gallery of Victoria’s Margaret Preston is a breathtaking exhibition. It is Preston as we have never seen her before, and challenges many earlier preconceptions.

We see her work in the context of her students/lovers, Bessie Gibson and Gladys Reynell, and her obsession with First Nations art – her adaptations, her collections, and, now, commentaries on her adaptations by Trevor Nickolls and Gordon Bennett, among others.

A much more complex and nuanced image of Preston emerges than in previous exhibitions.

The show is a mixture of a chronological…

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