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ARCHIVES 2002 - CENTRAL STREET LIVE & FLIPSIDE November 16th 2002 - February 23rd 2003

Central Street LiveCentral Street Live
Sydney's Central Street Gallery was international and infamous - it was art shock therapy. Central Street Live re-visits radical Australian painting of the 1960's.
Included are works by Gunter Christmann, Max Cullen, James Doolin, Barry Hirst, Michael Johnson, Tony McGillick, lan Milliss, Harold Noritis, Alan Oldfield, Wendy Paramor, Rollin Schlicht, Joseph Szabo, Vernon Treweeke, Dick Watkins, John White and Normana Wight.

Flipside
In the 60's when music came on vinyl, the track on the flipside of the record went with the deal. Played as an afterthought, it sometimes offered up an unexpected treat.
Flipside is the other track to the Central Street Gallery story - the role negotiated by two women artists in the pre Women's Lib, male-dominated Sydney art scene of the 60's and early 70's - Margo Lewers (1908-1978) and Wendy Paramor (1938-1975).

Left: (detail from) James Doolin: Artificial Landscape 68-1,1968; synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 166.7x132.4x6.8cm; Collection of Art Gallery of NSW; Gift of Chandler Coventry 1972; estate of the artist, reproduced with permission of Koplin Gallery

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