J.M.W Turner The 'Wilson' Sketchbook - Andrew Wilton Melbourne provides an in-depth documentation of

provides an in-depth documentation of a truly original writer who was at the centre of some of the most daring global poetic developments of the mid-twentieth century

Initiated by Greens Councillor for the Gabba Ward

across four decades of an oeuvre that is always in simultaneous dialogue with the contemporary moment and world history

His loose and playful forms are decorated with gestural brushstrokes and swirling

He was the author of four novels

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