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VISUAL ART
Desert Country
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Until January 26.
NICI Cumpston, the inaugural curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, has drawn on 100 paintings from the gallery's collection for this show.
An edifying overview of the 40-year evolution of the desert-art movement in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory -- in which the paintings of the inspirational Albert Namatjira and his Hermannsburg contemporaries are an evocative overture -- Desert Country offers viewers the opportunity to...