Collage in Australian Art Explored in Exhibition at National Gallery of Victoria

MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria presents "Stick it!: Collage in Australian Art", the Gallery’s first exhibition to focus on this fascinating art form. Featuring over forty works primarily drawn from the NGV Collection together with a small number of loans, Stick it! explores graphic and eye-catching works created by pasting and applying paper, ephemera and other materials to a base. This exhibition will features a selection of collages made in the past seventy years by some of Australia’s leading practitioners of this technique, including Sidney Nolan, James Gleeson, Robert Klippel, Mike Brown, Elizabeth Gower, Mandy Martin, Nick Mangan and Brook Andrew among others. Alisa Bunbury, Curator, Prints and Drawings, NGV said the use of collage boomed in the 1960s under the influence of British and American Pop

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