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Melbourne

Who Are You: Australian Portraiture

National Gallery of Victoria

25 March—21 August

From Polly Borland’s famous, golden, glittering photograph of Queen Elizabeth to Maree Clarke’s tremendously stitched possum skin cloak, titled the exhibition is centered

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