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Visions of Utopia

ANDREW CHRISTOFIDES IS VERY well-known to serious artists and curators in Australia for his relief constructions and paintings. Since his very first show in the early 1980s, few artists have been as uncompromising in their pursuit of pure abstraction as Christofides.

The Wollongong Art Gallery has commissioned Christofides to curate , an exhibition of his ideas on the pure elements of painting. This is the first time he has curated for the Gallery,

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