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    ROBYN SWEANEY

    Feb 28, 2018 3 minutes

    MY ART PRACTICE EXCAVATES THE complexities of Australian identity and place by responding to mundane rural and suburban environments. I am drawn to the quirkiness of the Australian landscape and am interested in how homes and streetscapes function as aesthetic incarnations of the belief structures influencing human behaviours on emotional, intellectual and spiritual levels. Over the years my practice has also included still-life, landscape and portraiture.

    Mount Waverley, then an outer suburb of Melbourne, is where I grew up. During the 1960s

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