Exhibition: The Landscape 1804 - 2015

Running 2-27 February, this exhibition at Philip Bacon Galleries stars works by Australian superstar painters, including Hans Heysen, Sidney Nolan, Fred Williams, Sam Fullbrook, William Robinson and Albert Namatjira. A detail from his Ghost gums (1952) is shown above.

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Data: Is This 2016's Most Beautiful Infographic?

Artists Jill Pelto creates gorgeous watercolours inspired by the natural world.

The kicker?

Each one also includes a hidden, graphic representation of climate change data, including sea level rise and aquatic systems affected by ocean acidification.

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Public Art: the vibration of materials

Artist Jaume Plensa believes "all objects, people and elements moving in space have an aura and an energy that just goes on and on" - enough energy to completely fill a space.

His large-scale public works incorporate both the human form and letter forms, and has appeared in public spaces from Antibes to New York.

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Photography: Square Plan, Round Planet

Dutch artist Gerco de Ruijter noticed an odd thing when driving through the US countryside.

He dug deeper and discovered the process that was used to adjust the strict national Jefferson Grid system to the curve of the Earth's surface, using a system of periodic 'grid corrections'.

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