The simple act of looking at a piece of visual art can boost your wellbeing, a new research study has found, and this benefit can be gained in a hospital setting as well as an art gallery.

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Art Gallery of NSW, Mim Stirling Within minutes of Mitch Cairns winning the Archibald Prize in 2017, with an abstract portrait of his wife and fellow artist Agatha Gothe-Snape, the grandfather of ...

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“It’s kind of a bit of abstract,” he said. “It’s more digital because I’m a designer and I took inspiration from my design work.” Nguyen began making art during the pandemic.

She added: “In the past few years, we have seen a renaissance of contemporary artwork that reflects a diverse range of technique and style, both in the abstract and realist styles of art ...