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EVAN SALMON

Something strikes a chord in me when I see the huge blocks of geometric colour of a ship against the rather drab and hazy landscape behind.

industrial town of Port Kembla, south of Wollongong, four years ago. While settling into my new home I started to draw the view of the industrial landscape of the steelworks and busy port from my verandah. Although this was initially just a means of keeping some sort of art practice going, it soon became a daily ritual and it wasn’t long before I started venturing out into

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