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The New Contemporary Art Magazine
Rebecca Hastings' art is a family affair. The Australian artist uses herself and her children as the focal subjects in her highly realist oil paintings - yet noticeably absent from these portraits is the sentimentality one would expect an artist-mother to insert into her depictions of family life. Instead, Hastings subverts these idealized expectations to reveal the more complex realities of child rearing that is rarely touched upon in glossy advertisements or family portraits.