Purple Whitlam

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At the launch for Kate Fagan’s Song in the Grass at the Margaret Whitlam Galleries, there is a transcendent moment set to music.

The colour of rapture is purple, and my eyes trace purple across the gallery.

Purple scrunchie, purple scarf, purple stockings, purple detail in a dress, purple in a quilted tapestry artwork, purple in a skirt.

Purple, that colour first isolated by the Phoenicians, and now rapture has travelled around the world.

A photo of the Margaret Whitlam Galleries building against a deep blue and vibrant purple night sky.

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