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A painting of a family of Tasmanian devils, sat on a large rock formation.

"It was at once exciting, overwhelming and intimidating,"
director Shane Fitzgerald said.
A patron peruses art in a gallery.

"[And second] Where are they? The majority of his works are in private collections, and we don't know."

Two men looking at a painting of a rural scene, one pointing towards a sheep in it.

A male artist in his studio, painting on a large canvas.

"When you paint for an exhibition, the paintings disappear off to the gallery, and if they're sold, you think, 'Well, I'm never going to see it again' … and you lose track of it,"
he said.

A man sat in a leather chair next to an open fireplace.

"It is part of the excitement of curating a show of this scale."

Two men in conversation assess a book.

"And so it becomes a bit of a chase,"
Mr Fitzgerald said.
A painting depicting a Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) in a desolate, jagged landscape.

A painting of sheep in a dry landscape with trees, a blue sky, and a hot air balloon.

"We did look hard, far and wide for those works and sadly … there were about a dozen works that didn't make it into the exhibition, "
he said.

Two women wearing gloves hang a long painting on the wall of a gallery that already has lots of paintings on it.

"Seeing [them] again is amazing … they are like lost friends, it's like a bit of a reunion and it's terrific."

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