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Bond investigates how art, as a portal, can function 'like the horizon marking the limit of our sensory world and therefore the beginning of the imaginary and the abstract...' It can also act as 'a mirror for an equally boundless internal world.'
De Vaux departed from England in 1970. He returns after several decades to his country of origin and looks at it through the eyes of 'an Australian in England'.