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WA Art Gallery exhibition wrestles with ghosts of colonialism in an age of woke

It owns priceless pieces of art by the likes of Sidney Nolan, Russell Drysdale, Norman Lindsay, Tom Roberts and even Lucien Freud, as well as one of Australia's most recognisable masterpieces, Frederick McCubbin's Down on His Luck.

But if you were hoping to see any of these renowned treasures at the Art Gallery of Western Australia for much of the past two years, you'd have been disappointed.

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