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This exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of Norman Lindsay’s The Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff (1918).

As Sam’s surname suggests an ability to conceal weapons, as in sawn-off shotgun, so this classic Australian book is loaded with high-powered energy, aggressive language and violent imagery.

The exhibition looks at Lindsay’s cooking up of “the puddin’” during what turned out to be the last year of the Great War.

Image: Norman LINDSAY 1879-1969 / Title-page of The Magic Pudding … / Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1918. / Lionel Lindsay Gallery and Library Collection / © H., C. and A. Glad