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SYDNEY

COLOUR FIELDS

Having opened late last year, Cassandra Bird gallery’s latest presentation is a bold suite of large-scale paintings brought to life by Gene A’hern in a fabulous flurry of colour and texture (left). The artist’s expressive gestural markings are sketched across his work’s surface in sweeping, receding, dancing motions to form overlapping thickets that radiate energ y and movement. April 19-May 18. cassandrabird.com

SYDNEY

THE LONG GOODBYE

‘A Moment in Extended Crisis’ aligns five(still, pictured, above), it explores ways in which legacies of revolution, war, exile and emigration are carried forward and how individual and collective experiences of these might feed back into our political reality. April 23-June 28.

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