Painting’s not dead. It’s not even sleeping

In 1839 the French artist Paul Delaroche claimed that painting was dead. The first major Australian painting survey in 10 years reveals painting is very much alive.
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Ry David Bradley, NTBD #4 2015 and NTBD #12 2015; courtesy the artist and Tristian Koenig, Melbourne.

How new can painting be? So new and exhaustive that it has to be delivered in two chapters, is the answer that the Australian Centre Contemporary Art (ACCA) posits through a exhibition that corrals 75 living painters cheek-to-cheek in random configuration.

Co-curator Annika Kristensen told ArtsHub the exhibition was addressing an absence in the Australian art landscape over the past decade.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina