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Julian Meagher (Main Gallery) "Inks in Oil" This new body of work by Julian Meagher is a series of oil paintings focused on the motif of traditional Japanese tattoos. In an evolution from his previous work, these paintings emphasise the brightly-coloured graphic folklore and traditions of the inked body rather than the sitter themselves. The tattoos, sitting on torsos, shoulders and arms of their owners, commit a sort of erasure of the body as the images extend off the skin, creating new forms that float on minimal white...more