Interview - Adam Oehlers
- Art, International, Interviews & Editorial, Melbourne
- June 15, 2011
In July 2009, I’d been living in Melbourne for over a year, in a small (now demolished), workers cottage on Highett street in Richmond. Across the road, a dilapidated warehouse (now turned into cruisey new apartments) sat. Every so often, Id sneak in through a wedged open piece of sheet metal, to see what was
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