Working as an amateur volunteer historian for the entity HSSH (House Sparrow Society for Humans), Fernando do Campo shares a box of slides and correspondence from the 1950s between the HSSH and the Abstract Expressionist American painter Barnett Newman.

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Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Fernando do Campo: To companion a companion at UNSW Galleries, 7 May – 31 July 2021.

Image: Fernando do Campo, 'Scouting for recuperance', site-specific guided walk with archival material, Greenwood Cemmetary, Brooklyn, June 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Sally Dan - Cuthbert, Sydney. Photograph : Alex Sheriff