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FRANCK GOHIER

“People interest me the most. Their cultural backgrounds, views on life, motives, fears, aspirations and so on. And also how these elements help shape history and events.

YOU ARE WORKING TOWARDS AN EXHIBITION AT THE Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT); how is the planning going? What can we expect from this exhibition?

The survey exhibition, A thousand miles from everywhere, is being curated by Glenn Barkley and organised by the excellent team at MAGNT. Everything is going to plan and it has been great fun revisiting the past in order to evaluate the future. The show spans almost 30 years of practice encompassing printmaking, painting and sculpture and will be accompanied by a comprehensive publication.

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