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The Intelligence of Painting — Prudence Flint, *The Bath,* 2022, oil on linen. Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2022, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Jessica Maurer.

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Group exhibition

The Intelligence of Painting

The Intelligence of Painting throws a spotlight on the energy of contemporary painting in Australia today through the work of 14 Australian women artists. The exhibition includes recent MCA Collection acquisitions, as well as new and recent paintings by Karen Black, Angela Brennan, Eleanor Louise Butt, Prudence Flint, Maria Madeira, Thea Anamara Perkins, Kerrie Poliness, Jude Rae, Jessica Rankin, Julie Nangala Robertson, Gemma Smith, Jelena Telecki, Jenny Watson and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu.

1 March—20 July

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

140 George Street The Rocks NSW 2000

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Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Group exhibition

The Intelligence of Painting

1 March—20 July

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

More Exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

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Suggested Reading

Desert Mob

Kate Hennessy

Bhenji Ra dreams in dance

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Amelia Winata

Ways of seeing

Art Guide Australia

Consuelo Cavaniglio’s tricks of the light

Jane O'Sullivan

Creating Culture: introducing the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair

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