Clinton Naina
Clinton Naina (formerly Nain) is a painter, dancer, performer and storyteller who obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from Melbourne’s VCA in 1994, and a Master of Fine Art (Research) from Sydney’s CoFA in 2003.
Naina came to prominence in the late 90s with a poignant series titled White King, Blak Queen, which used a combination of bleach and bitumen to explore the tainted path of colonisation. His unique combination of materials and potent imagery exposes the impact of British settlement and imposed religious order on his people from the Torres Strait Islands.
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Clinton Naina (Meriam Mir/Ku Ku)
Born 1971, Carlton, Victoria
EDUCATION
2001–03 Master of Fine Arts (Research), College of Fine Arts, University of
New South Wales, Sydney
1992–94 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, The University
of Melbourne
1990–91 Advanced Certificate of the Arts, Northern Metropolitan College of
TAFE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Stolen Unknown, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2019
Painting the Town Blak: Clinton Naina, Yarra City Arts, Richmond Town Hall,
Melbourne
Passive Aggressive – Power, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2018
Passive Aggressive – Warpaint, Art Atrium, Bondi Junction, Sydney
2016
Passive Aggressive – Dream, Art Atrium, Sydney
2014
REACH, Wyndham Art Gallery, Melbourne
2013
NAIN, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne
2011
Blue Stone, Blak Flowers, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
Mao & I, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010
Blak Flowers and Tumbleweed, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2009
Re’dress, Grant Pirrie Gallery, Sydney
2008
Resistance to Resilience, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2007
Hurdy Gurdy (Wrong Way Around), Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2006
A E I O U, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Clinton Nain, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin
The Dirty Deal Ain’t Clean, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2004
You Never Said Thank You, 138 Lygon Street, Brunswick, Melbourne
2003
Living Under the Bridge, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Clinton Nain, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin
2001
Whitens, Removes Stains, Kills Germs, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
2000
White King Blak Queen, Brisbane Powerhouse, Live Arts, Brisbane
The Bleach is Blak, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Heritage Colours, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
1999
Seven Days Seven Nights of Blak Magic, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
It Reigns White King, Midsumma, Platform 2, The Thin Line, Melbourne
Big Yellow Cloud, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne
1998
Aboriginal Embassy 1972, 4th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award
Brilliant Blackness, Open Season Gallery, Melbourne
Over My Blak Body, Lavender Nights, Melbourne
1997
Pitched Blak, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1996
Nambundah Festival Exhibition, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Queer, National Gallery of Victoria
Sydney Contemporary with Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney
2021
Big Weather, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Mutable Ecologies, RMIT University, curated by Kristen Sharp, Philip
Samartzis and Andrew Tetzlaff, Online Exhibition. www.mutable-ecologies.com/en
2020
The Koorie Art Show, Koorie Heritage Trust, Yarra Building, Melbourne
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, Queensland
2019
Drowning not Waving, Wyndham Art Gallery, Victoria
2018
Colony: Frontier Wars, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2017
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney
Seeing Voices, Monash University of Arts Collection, Monash University
2016
Sovereignty, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
The China Dream Exhibition, Beijing Museum of Visual Art, Beijing, China
2015
End of Year Exhibition, Art Atrium, Bondi Junction, Sydney
Bungaree’s Farm, Curated by Djon Mundine (OAM), Cairns Indigenous Art Fair,
Tanks Art Centre, Cairns.
Passive Aggressive, Cairns Cruise Liner, Shed 3, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair,
Cairns
2014
Show Time, The Art Collection of Arts Centre, Arts Centre, Melbourne.
Blak Wave, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne.
Art Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2013
TOGART Contemporary Art Award, Darwin
2012
KIAF (Korean International Art Fair), South Korea
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (Alcaston Gallery), Cairns
Melbourne Art Fair (Alcaston Gallery), Melbourne
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong
Alcaston at Depot Gallery, Sydney
2011
Reclaimed: Contemporary Australian Art, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Land, Sea and Sky Contempoary Art of the Torres Strait Islands, Queensland
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
Pink Sunrise, Boomalli Gallery, Sydney.
Boots : Rule 30, Michael Long Foundation, N.G.V. AFL, Melbourne.
Wattle : Australian Contemporary Art Show, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Show at Heiser Gallery, Fortitude Valley Queensland.
Show at Mossgreen Gallery Toorak Melbourne.
New Acquisitions in Council Arts & Heritage Collection, City of Yarra,
Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne.
2010
Gayme, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria.
2009
Just Can’t Get Enough, Linden Gallery St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts.
2008
The Coloured Digger Exhibition, ANZAC DAY, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney.
In a Different Light, Artists Portrayed, Sonia Payes, Monash Gallery of Art,
Melbourne
Hand in Hand, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-Operative Performance Space at
Carriageworks Acon, Aboriginal Project Exhibition for the 2008 Sydney Gay &
Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival.
Lives and Times, NGV travelling exhibition, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo,
Victoria
Lines In The Sand Botany Bay Stories From 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
and Arts Centre, Sutherland Shire.
The Rug Project 2008, Designer Rugs/Auction, Alexandria Industrial Estate,
Sydney
Leading Lights, Ivan Dougherty Gallery UNSW, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
2007
Power and Beauty, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Celebrating Aboriginal Rights, curator Rhonda Davis, Macquarie University
Art Gallery, Sydney
2006
Landmarks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Dancelines: Contemporary Indigenous Art Inspired by Bangarra Dance Theatre,
Arts Centre Melbourne, curated by Marita Smith
2005
Paper Chase, Nellis Castan Gallery, Melbourne
L’art urbain du Pacifique, Saint-Auvent Castle, Limosin, France
Bleak Epiphanies: an exhibition of small black things, Virginia Wilson Art
in association with William Wright Artists’ Projects, Sydney
2004
One Of: Festivus 04, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Masters of COFA, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Art & Champagne, Friends of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Research
Library and Archive, Australian Galleries, Sydney (fundraiser)
Fundraising Event, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2003
Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn, Artspace, Mackay; Cairns
Regional Gallery, Cairns; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD
An Indigenous COFA Presence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts,
University of New South Wales, Sydney
2002
Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Artful Park, Centennial Parklands, Sydney
Gatherings, Queensland Indigenous Art Promotion Project, Brisbane Convention
and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane
What’s Love Got To Do With It?, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
Melbourne
Post Mullet: New Australian Style, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine
Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Queer Family, Midsummer Festival, Span Galleries, Melbourne
2001
Bennet Nain Parr Tillers, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
2000
The Art of Place, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Goin’, Goin’, Gone, fundraising exhibition for lesbian and gay anti-violence
project, Lizard Lounge Arts Space, Sydney
Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art, curator Brenda Croft, 2000
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, AGSA, Adelaide
1999-03
We Are Australian, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne
1999
Stolen, World Vision Australia, Walkabout Gallery, Sydney
Walkabout Gallery Exhibition, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney
The Art of Place, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Fiction Factory, Project Space, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
Melbourne
Mapping Our Countries, Djamu Gallery, Sydney
1998-99
Ilan Pasin (This is Our Way): Torres Strait Art, two-year tour of Australia
and the Pacific: Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery,
Townsville; The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; Tandanya: National
Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown; National Archives of
Australia, Canberra
1998
One Night Only, exhibition of new work by Melbourne artists, Stripp Gallery,
Melbourne
Natives Dancing, Dream Run, Quality Street, Fresh & Blood, A Sydney
Story 1788–1988, Museum of Sydney, Sydney
Black Roots, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists’ Co-op, Sydney
Urban Dreaming Different Meaning, Project Space, Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology, Melbourne
Pauline Hansen – Co-Existence Australian Artists Against Racism, Hogarth
Galleries, Sydney
1997
I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
More than a Piece of Paper, Graduate Centre, The University of Melbourne
1967–1997: 30 Years On, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Primavera 1997, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1996
Bay Watch, Grand Central Gallery, Melbourne
Next Wave Festival Exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
We Iri-We Homeborn, Grand Central Gallery, Melbourne
1995
Blak City Culture, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne,
three-year national travelling exhibition
New Faces New Directions, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Dja Dja Wrung Womin-Je-Ku-Werreneen (William Bit: Welcome to our Homeland),
Bendigo Arts Festival, Bendigo, VIC
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Week, St Francis Church,
Melbourne
Art of the Men, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
1994
Blak City Culture, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Power of the Land, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1993
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Exhibition, World Trade
Centre, New York
Duality: A World Within a World, Melbourne Fringe Festival
1992
Koori Art Exhibition, Royal Melbourne Show, Melbourne
Koori Arts Exhibition, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Week, 101 Collins Street,
Melbourne, sponsored by Contemporary Australian Visions
Kitch’en Koori, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
1990
Fringe Festival Multi-Media Exhibition, Melbourne
DANCE AND PERFORMANCE
2006
A E I O U, performance, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Embark on this journey, Acid Reign, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
2005
Where’s Jemima, L’art urbain du Pacifique, Saint-Auvent Castle, Limosin,
France
2004
You Never Said Thank You!, performance, 138 Lygon Street, Brunswick,
Melbourne
The 4th Victorian Indigenous Playwrights Conference, Ilbigeri Victorian
Indigenous Performing Arts Awards, presented the Aunty Eleanor Harding Memorial
Award, Bunjilaka Aboriginal Centre, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne
2003
Traditional Owners’ Ceremony, choreography and performance, Melbourne Town
Hall, Melbourne
Bunjil: Creation Story, choreography, Moomba Waterfest Parade, Melbourne
2000
Bunjil: Creation Story, choreography and performance, Melbourne Festival
Opening, Melbourne
1999
Respect for Our Elders, Project Space, Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology, Melbourne
Adornment, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Which Way Cabaret, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
Big Yellow Cloud, performance, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
White King Blak Queen, installation and performance, Melbourne
Torres Strait Dance, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Koori Day,
Melbourne
1998
Sister Romper: Giving Indigenous Women a Voice, Collingwood Town Hall
Mayer’s Community Day: A Festival of Unity and Reconciliation, Gasworks
Park, City of Port Phillip,
Mommy Dearest, Prince of Wales Hotel, Melbourne
Black Featherette, Stick With Wik (fundraiser)
1997
We Iri, We Homeborn, We Just Too Deadly, Grand Central, Melbourne
St Kilda Writers’ Festival, Gershwin Room, Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne
Up the Ladder, Melbourne Workers’ Theatre, toured Sydney and regional
Victoria
I Can’t Sleep At Night, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1996
Nambundah Festival Exhibition, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1993
Second World Indigenous Youth Conference, Darwin
Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
St Kilda Pacific Arts Festival, Melbourne
Seminar, Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Hilton Hotel, Melbourne
National Liturgical Music Convention, Melbourne and Kilmore
1991
Bony, TV series, Grundy Television Productions
1990
Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
The City of Melbourne: ATSI Cross Cultural Workshop, The University of
Melbourne, Melbourne
Ilbijerri ATSI Theatre Cooperative, Melbourne
FILM AND TELEVISION
2021
‘Artist Talk: The 8th Koorie Art Show’, Koorie Heritage Trust,
online video, https://vimeo.com/512811156
2020
‘An interview with Clinton Naina, Big Weather’, National Gallery of
Victoria, online video, https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/an-interview-with-clinton-naina/
2007
Art in Reverse, ABC TV (3 June)
2005
Sunday Arts, Panel Discussion, ABC TV
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, TEN Network,
Art in Reverse, Ovation Channel
2003
George Negus Tonight, ABC TV (6 October)
2001
The Arts Show, SBS TV
2000
Tiddas Special, ABC TV
Bent TV, ‘Queer Family’, Channel 31
Coming Out, discussion panel (10 May)
Songlines, ABC TV, special on ‘Festival of the Dreaming’ (8 October)
I Can’t Sleep at Night, performance
Pitched Black, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1991
Bony, TV series, Grundy’s
RADIO INTERVIEWS
2020
‘Clinton Naina, Winner of the 2020 Koorie Art Show’, NITV Radio
2006
The Deep End, Radio National
Aboriginal, SBS Radio
Arts Up, 3k en D, France
Exhibit A, Radio National with Julie Copland
Survival Show, Koori 3CR
2005
Ursula Raymond interview, ABC Radio Darwin
2003
Not Another Koori Show, 3CR
2000
‘Reconciliation: What is it? Should Queers Say Sorry?’, Feast 2000: Adelaide
Lesbian and Gay Festival’, live debate, Adelaide Radio
Art to Lunch, Radio 4ZZZ, Brisbane
1997
Arts Yarn Up, Sydney
1996
2SER radio, Sydney
1995
Te-Up-Oko-Ote-Ika, Maori Radio
Altered States, 3RRR
1994
Not Another Koori Show, 3CR
1992
Aboriginal Program, 3EA
LECTURES
2006 Landmarks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (with Judith Ryan)
2006 Erub has a bitumen road now, Landmarks, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
2006 Exploring Landmarks, Women’s Association one-day seminar, National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2006 Embark on this journey / into acid reign, Dancelines: Contemporary
Indigenous Art inspired by Bangarra Dance Theatre, The Arts Centre, Melbourne
2005 L’Art Urbain Du Pacifique, Saint-Auvent, France
2003 Living Under the Bridge, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2003 Whitens, Removes Stains, Kills Germs, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin
2000 The Bleach is Blak, Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide
2000 White King Blak Queen and Beyond the Pale, Art Gallery of South
Australia, Adelaide
1999 Visual Arts Department, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northern
Melbourne Institute of TAFE, Melbourne
1998 Koori Art and Design, Department of Visual Arts, Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1998 Footscray Campus, Victoria University, Melbourne
1998 Ilan Pasin (This is Our Way): Torres Strait Art, Cairns Regional
Gallery, Cairns
1997 Linden Gallery, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia; National
Gallery of Victoria; Queensland Art Gallery; The Australian Museum; Flinders
University Art Museum; Northern Metropolitan College of TAFE; The University of
Melbourne; Victorian College of the Arts; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Council; Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation; City of Port Phillip; Wesfarmers;
BHP Billiton; DNA Design Nation Pty Ltd; Arthur and Susie Roe Collection; HRA
& Associates; Rio Tinto; Jean-Marie Tijbou Cultural Centre, Noumea
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018
Frost, Andrew, ‘New Directions, Clinton Nain’, Art Collector, iss. 87,
Jan-Mar, pp. 86-87
2011
Crawford, Ashley, ‘Clinton Nain: Hoping hard in the city’, Art Collector,
Issue 57, July -Sep http://www.artcollector.net.au/ClintonNainHopinghardinthecity
2007
Messer, Barbara, ‘Blak Queen’, Media Arts, Alumni Edition, COFA, issue 19,
2007, pp. 8–9
Croft, Brenda, Hurdy Gurdy (Wrong Way Around), catalogue essay, Sherman
Galleries, Sydney
2006
Nelson, Robert, ‘Clinton Nain: a e I o u’, https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/clinton-nain-a-e-i-o-u-20060531-ge2fbi.html
, 31 May
Murray-Cree, Laura (ed.), Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986–2006, Craftsman
House, Melbourne
O’Brien, Mary, ‘Indigenous visual artists step up to Bangarra’, Metro News
and Reviews, The Age, 8 Feb
Usher, Robin, ‘Dreamtime art takes center stage in landmark show’, Age , 1
March
Cusworth, Fran, ‘Truth at road’s end’, Herald Sun, 14 February
‘From out of the earth’, The Critics, Age, 11 February
‘Survival on invasion day tribute to 218 years of ongoing indigenous
dissent’, National Indigenous Times, 26 January
2005
McDonald, John, Surface Tension, The Art Life, http://artlife.blogspot.com/2005/06/surface-tension.html
, June
Gould, Ian, ‘Secrets and lives’, interview with Clinton Nain, Sydney Star
Observer, 2 June, p. 7
Comte, Samantha, ‘A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: A Recent History of
Contemporary Art’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Black Ink, Melbourne
Bleak Epiphanies: An Exhibition of Small Black Things Metro, Sydney Morning
Herald
‘Erub has a bitumen road now’, Art Up to the Eyeballs, Reader Magazine,
June–July
‘First person, secrets and lives, Clinton Nain uses art to tell stories of
sexuality, cultural identity and hidden oppression’, Sydney Star Observer , 2
June
2004
Mendelssohn, Joanna, ‘Clinton Nain: Living under the bridge’, Artlink, vol.
24, no. 1, March, pp. 85–6
Frost, Andrew, ‘50 of Australia’s most collectable artists’, Art Collector,
issue 27, Jan–Mar
2003
Simmonds, Diana, ‘Must see’, Sunday Telegraph, 23 November, p. 126
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Arts, Research, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2001
Frost, Andrew, ‘Telling stories’, Australian Style, no. 57, Nov
Kidd, Courtney, ‘The pain in stain is the message from Nain’, Sydney Morning
Herald, 2 May
2000
Walker, Wendy, ‘Speaking of reconciliation’, Visual Arts, The Advertiser
Feast, November
Vaughan, Plaz, ‘Showing the way: Queer family’, Herald Sun: Front Row,
January
‘Yarra’s heritage colours’ City of Yarra News, vol. 6, no. 6, December
Kappinski, Barbara, ‘Blak out, Blue’, no. 30, December (photography: Paul
Freeman)
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Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
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Bicentennial of Australian Art, Adelaide
Cochrane, Peter, ‘Festival of hope amid anger and reminders of a sorry
past’, Sydney Morning Herald
Fitzgerald, Michael, ‘Renewing the country’, Time, 3 April
Litson, Jo, ‘Powersurge boosts culture’, Australian, 28 April
Coslovich, Gabriella, ‘Sista girl powers on’, The Age
Devlin, Rebekeh, ‘An artistic challenge to a pale limitation”, Age, 22 May
1999
Anthony, Rachel, ‘Which way’, Time Out, Melbourne Times
Palz, Vaughan, ‘Nain but the best’, Herald Sun
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1998
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1998
Carter, Melissa, ‘Significant risk emerging artists struggling to be seen’,
Artlink, 8 January
‘Indigenous Mardi Gras (Black Roots)’, Outrage, no. 177, February
1997
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Australia, vol. 35, no. 1, spring, illus., p. 121
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‘Celebrating the new and the deadly’, Southern Cross, 25 June
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‘I can’t sleep at night’, Earth Strokes Festival of the Dreaming, Hogarth
Galleries, 6 October
‘Primavera exhibition’, Australian Jewish News, Sydney Edition, 5 September
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September
1996
‘No more tears’, Melbourne Star Observer, 26 January
1995
Benjamin, Roger, ‘BLAKNESS – Blak city culture’, Art & Text, College of
Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney
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1994
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1993
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Committee, (A.C.S.J.C.)
1992
Flanagan, ‘Here and there, the Impulse of Brett Whiteley’, Age, 18 July