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Can you imagine how much you would value the last thing you saw if you started to lose your sight?

Over 450,000 Australians are blind or have low vision. Like many things in life that are just expected, eyesight is one of those things we take for granted.

We partnered nine visually-impaired Australians with nine influential artists to depict their last, dearly-held visual memory, before their sight started to deteriorate.

After a sell-out launch at GOMA, the Last Seen Exhibition was transferred to QPAC for public viewing. The exhibition ran from Friday, 15 November to Sunday, 1 December 2019.

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Rhys Herriott

Time for strength.

By artist Vladislav Bodnaruk

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Oscar Eckersley

Time to be a child again.

By artist Adam Lester

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Yuma Antoine Decaux

Lost sight and lost love.

By artist Kate McKay

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Cheryl Heuston

An ocean of calm.

By artist Gail Rutherford

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Peter Vance

Music takes you places.

By artist Col McElwaine

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Wayne Sticher

A vision of tranquillity.

By artist Mitch Shultz

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Phoebe Young

Perspective and the night sky.

By artist Guy Morgan

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Stephanie Agnew

A moment of simple joy.

By artist Claudia Greathead

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Lisa Cox

The sun shines through.

By artist Pip Spiro

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Last Seen would not be possible without the generous support of many organisations including:

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Last Seen is an awareness and fundraising campaign to enable the Queensland Eye Institute Foundation to continue its research to save sight.

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