How has Australia evolved as a nation since WWII? A new Hazelhurst exhibition may provide some answers

By Jim Gainsford
Updated March 26 2015 - 11:10am, first published 9:15am
Identity: Edmund Capon with Brett Whiteley's work, Australia 1970-74, one of the works at the Modernism exhibition at Hazelhurst Gallery. The oil painting includes  charcoal, dried reed, a eucalypt branch, a rubber snake, taxidermied Scaly-breasted Lorikeet, collage and plaster on plywood.  It part of the TarraWarra Museum of Art collection. Gift of Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AO. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2008. Picture: Chris Lane.
Identity: Edmund Capon with Brett Whiteley's work, Australia 1970-74, one of the works at the Modernism exhibition at Hazelhurst Gallery. The oil painting includes charcoal, dried reed, a eucalypt branch, a rubber snake, taxidermied Scaly-breasted Lorikeet, collage and plaster on plywood. It part of the TarraWarra Museum of Art collection. Gift of Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AO. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2008. Picture: Chris Lane.

A new exhibition at Hazelhurst Gallery has been described as "the story of modernism but done with a more individual eye instead of a corporate eye".

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