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Elisabeth Cummings

by Elizabeth Fortescue

Elizabeth Fortescue on the great artist who has two major exhibitions happening this year.

Portrait of Elisabeth Cummings in bushland at Wedderburn

The Captain

by Rowena Lennox

The devastation of a shipwreck echoes across time.

Picture of a sailing ship

A book by its cover

by Mathilde de Hauteclocque

A twenty-first century fine binder gains a student.

Old brown leather books on bookcase

Shakespeare Wallah

by John Zubrzycki

The Bard on tour in Bengal and beyond.

Colour graphic with a man holding a sword and wearing Shakespearean ruff

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