The Sitter Children and the Australian Museum

and the Australian Museum

Edited by Jane Eckett with Lisa Byrne

cultural practices and religious iconography of Islam and Arabia

aims to unveil and address these layered complexities

Read the review of CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions Since 2008 by Jane O'Sullivan at artguide

The Sitter Children and the Australian MuseumA highly original work narrated by Hortense Cezanne, the wife of the celebrated artist, as she witnesses an author in 2020 write a book about her life. Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggling to finish a novel about Hortense Cezanne, wife and sometime muse of the famous painter. Dead for more than a century, Hortense has been reawakened by this creative endeavour, and now shadows the writer