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Adam Derum's paintings are a non apologetic expression of beauty. His large paintings are the result of years of painstaking making and bear witness to the commitment of producing a visual effect that hovers between beauty and the representation of the sublime. In an essay discussing the otherwise annihilating impact on vision of the Western Australian glare, art academic Barb Bolt notes (t)he avant-garde project in Australia, as elsewhere, is concerned with the sublime imperative of delving into the dark, the unknown and...more