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Petrina Hicks is adept at using the seductive and glossy language of commercial photography to create works that probe the false promises of perfection.   The works in this exhibition have been created during a number of overseas residencies that became possible after winning the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award in 2008 with the unsettling image Lambswool.   In a time when so much fine art photography embraces the banal and anti-aesthetic as a distancing device from ever-seductive commercial imagery,...more