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Tracey Lock

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Tracey Lock is curator of Australian paintings and sculpture at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Articles by Tracey

Retro flash: Adelaide on the pulse of the international avant-garde

A brief flourish of hard-edge painting between 1967 and 1969 reveals father-and-son Adelaide artists working at the forefront of international abstraction, and a new display at the Art Gallery of SA offers a chance to view their bold works.

Off the Wall: Australian Impressionists in France

Coinciding with the exhibition of French Impressionist masterpieces at the Art Gallery of SA is a display which shows how Australian artists – including the flamboyant Charles Conder – were immersed in the most radical developments in European art.

Detail of The Eruption, by Dorrit Black.

Off the Wall: 'A dramatic and terrible spectacle'

Adelaide-born artist Dorrit Black witnessed first-hand the destructive eruption of Sicily’s Mount Etna in 1928, and her resulting work The Eruption is a highlight of a new display of her linocut prints at the Art Gallery of SA.