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Masters of Australian Craft – Prue Venables

The Prue Venables exhibition, recently held at the Australian Design Centre in Sydney, is on its first stop in a national tour. It is being shown with its accompanying documentary, which was filmed in her studio in Castlemaine, Victoria. Over the next four years the exhibition will tour to fourteen locations across Australia.

Venables’ exhibition is the ninth in a series of solo exhibitions initiated by the Australian Design Centre to celebrate Australia’s most respected craft practitioners. It is

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