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What’s in the Stockroom?
Each week we wander through one of the region’s premiere stockrooms to find out what treasures lay inside.
Sutton Gallery
This week we visit Melbourne’s Sutton Gallery with director Irene Sutton. To the right of Irene is
& by Nick Selenitsch.
Raafat Ishak, Good State, 2003. Acrylic on MDF, 2 panels: 53.5 x 108.5cm and 53.5 x 30cm. Courtesy: the artist and Sutton Gallery.
“With
Good State, 2003
, is a fine example of
Raafat Ishak’s work. The composition overlaps elements of contemporary and federation Australian architecture and the twentieth century structures dotted throughout his birthplace of Cairo, Egypt, seamlessly blending the personal with the political. I have always been drawn to the modernist idiom that runs through Raafat’s work – I am particularly excited to see it activated by the 1960s building at Heide Museum of Modern Art, where he has a major exhibition next year.”