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Mining for Truth and Change

Described as an artist, poet, critic, independent curator and researcher, Gladstone-born, Berlinbased Rachel O’Reilly has a range of perspectives informing her work. She also brings an extraordinary amount of knowledge about fracking—the mining process of extracting gas and oil from shale rock—to her long-running project The Gas Imaginary, whose latest and final component, a feature film launched in London and Berlin, is now premiering at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art (IMA).

Across her work, O’Reilly deals with entanglements

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