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HELEN FLOCKHART

HELEN FLOCKHART
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Royal Glasgow Institute Christmas Exhibition
Saturday 15 November 12 - 4pm till 20 December 4pm


I'll have this little unframed new painting in the RGI Christmas Exhibition

Red Adam, 20.8cm x 14.8cm oil on card

RGI Kelly Gallery
118 Douglas Street
Glasgow  G2 4ET
​email: [email protected]
phone:  01412487411



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Open Eye Gallery - On A Small Scale
20 November 11am

Little new unframed painting in this show in Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh
                                                                    34 Abercromby Place
                                                                    Edinburgh EH3 6QE

"I Swear By Apollo..."  21cm x 15cm oil on card

email:  [email protected]

phone:  01315571020

www.openeyegallery.co.uk/viewing-room/

A Bit of Mischief
I'm honoured that Dr Catriona McAra has written about me for Art UK, in a text which will form part of a new publication:
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https://artuk.org/discover/stories/a-bit-of-mischief-an-interview-with-helen-flockhart
 


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"Orange Bath" has won the Rosemary & Co Brushes Prize in the Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition
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Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition  6 - 12 July
Featuring over 100 international works with paintings by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
These two paintings are in this show at:               
                                                               8 Duke Street
                                                         St James's
                                                         London
                                                         SW1Y 6BN
www.hampsteadartsociety.uk

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Strange Magic
A group show curated by Leslie Glenn Damhus in Andelli Art Gallery in Wells, Somerset
5-25 July 2025
Andelli Art Gallery,
Mendip House, South Horrington,
​Wells, BA5 3QG

Strange Magic is inspired by ‘The Power of Myth’ by Joseph Campbell. Campbell speaks about the function of artists as myth makers and communicators of experience, often very personal experiences. This myth making and the intimate expressions of artist’s individuality is a subject that has inspired artist Leslie Glenn Damhus to curate ‘Strange Magic’ which weaves together a spellbinding exhibition of the works of contemporary myth makers and storytellers. 
 Andelli Art and Glenn Damhus are drawing together artists whose work encapsulates Campbell’s philosophy and who share a common language in their approach and methodology. ‘Strange Magic’ promises to take the viewer on a voyage of wondrous and prodigious works that are captivating, playful and steeped in magical enchantment. 
I have three new paintings in this show
www.andelliart.com

email: [email protected]

 Royal Scottish Academy 199th Annual Exhibition 2025
I have two paintings in the RSA Annual Exhibition this year from 3 May until 8 June 2025
https://www.rsaannualexhibition.org/​
Royal Scottish Academy
The Mound Edinburgh EH2 2EL
Contact: [email protected]


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I have a Q & A on the Royal Scottish Academy website where I talk about the Garden of Eden, the female/feminine in my painting, studying in Poland in the 80s, my diploma piece for the RSA Collection, the RSA New Contemporaries and the tricky stages of a painting.
https://www.royalscottishacademy.org/blog/46-helen-flockhart-rsa-academician-q-a/








​​Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now

On 2 August 2024 Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now opens in the Royal Scottish Academy,  Edinburgh.  I will have four new paintings in the show, which runs throughout the Edinburgh festival until 8 September. 
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Co-curated by Robbie Bushe RSA and Flora La Thangue, Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now will explore the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of the medium of painting and reveal it to be a vital connection between the traditions of the past and ambitions for the future of the visual arts in Scotland.
Frontiers will explore why, in a world saturated with digital imagery, painting continues to flourish.  The exhibition will place Royal Scottish Academicians alongside other established practitioners and emerging artists, posing the question: what now for painting?  Are there new frontiers for painting in Scotland.
All works will be available for sale and the exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.  
Free Entry
RSA Lower Galleries, Royal Scottish Academy
The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
Mon - Sat 10am-5pm Sun 12-5pm

r thttps://www.royalscottishacademy.org/exhibitions/284-frontiers-painting-in-scotland-now/overview/e ways in which artists are pushing t boundaries of the 
PictureTrimalchio's Feast 24cm x 40cm oil on panel
Magic Mirror, Hydra
From 18 June to 21 July I was delighted to have some paintings included in "Magic Mirror" on Hydra island, Greece.  Curated by Wilhelmina von Blumenthal and Irina Karayannopoulou, it was "devoted to the artist's power to reflect, transform and distort reality". 
"This exhibition is a tapestry of illusions, a web of experiences that escape the rational mind.  Magic Mirror is a reflection on how we perceive the world; an invitation to explore what lies beyond our immediate senses".  
www.wilhelmina.gallery/exhibitions

PictureBride and Groom, Yellow Room 39cm x 56cm oil on panel
198th Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 11 May - 16 June 2024
​I have a painting in the 198th Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL

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The Three Graces 13 March - 21 April 2024

I am contributing three paintings to a group exhibition in Unit London:

Unit London
3 Hanover Square
Mayfair
London
​W1S 2HD
                                                         
                                                                
                                                                    

                                                                                                                         Phone:  +44 (0) 20 7494 2035
                                                                                                                    email: [email protected]
                                                                                                               instagram: @unitlondon

Picture"The Shades" 60cm x 95cm oil on canvas

Solo show opening 23 November 2023

I'm delighted to be holding a solo show of new paintings in Arusha Gallery's brand new space in Fitzrovia's Percy Street, London in November 2023.  It promises to be a beautiful gallery and I have been working hard on new pieces.  
Opens 23 November 6 - 8pm
exhibition continues until Friday 22 December
Opening hours Monday to Saturday 11am - 6pm

Arusha Gallery 
6 Percy Street
London W1T 1DQ
Phone: 0131 557 1412 0131 557 14120131 557 1412
​For enquiries please contact [email protected]

website:  arushagallery.com

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"A closed door, a den" - Group exhibition in Bruton, Somerset

I have a little painting in this group show  in:
Arusha Gallery, Bruton
The Old Silk Barn 
Quaperlake Street 
Bruton, Somerset
​BA10 0HB



with exhibiting artists:-
Helen Flockhart, Charlotte Keates, Iwan Lewis, Holly Mills, Eleanor Moreton, Anna Rocke, Emma Steinkraus, Nina Silverberg and Margaret Thompson

Opening Saturday 18 November 2023
2 - 6pm
exhibition continues 19 November - 23 December 2023
11am - 6pm

email:  [email protected] 

​gallery website:  arushagallery.com
Scottish Women Artists:  250 years of Challenging Perception, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

My 2005 painting "Lemons Dripping" is hanging in the Dovecot Studios and Gallery in Edinbugh as part of Fleming Collections's exhibition "Scottish Women Artists: 250 years of Challenging Perception" until January 6 2024.

"This important exhibition... celebrates the work of women artists who have challenged and shaped the contemporary art scene in Scotland.  In an era when women lead Scotland's government, galleries and art schools, it is easy to forget the prejudices and barriers their predecessors have faced."

There is a book to accompany the exhibition by Charlotte Rostek.  The book contains an image of my 1997 painting "Canute" which is also held by Flemings.  
https://dovecotstudios.com/exhibitions/scottish-women-artists​
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"Lemons Dripping" 53.5cm x 79cm oil on canvas, 2005
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Book by Charlotte Rostek to accompany the exhibition
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"Canute" 114cm x 144cm oil on canvas 1997, also held by Flemings
Picture"Io" 30.5cm x 23cm oil on panel
Hawthorn and the Feast of Julian, May 2023, New York

"Io" was part of Hawthorn and the Feast of Julian, an exhibition by Arusha Gallery in High Line Nine Gallery, New York from 16 to 28 May 2023.  

"In this seasonal show we look to celebrate the mythologies of both the thorny Hawthorn bush and the writer, mystic and anchorite Julian of Norwich.  Both invite rich visual narratives and contemplations ushering us into the summer months."

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Eye of the Collector May 2023, London

My painting "I was Chloris, who am now called Flora" was in the beautiful Eye of the Collector art fair in Two Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD from 17 to 20 May 2023, as seen hanging in the spectacular stairwell, left.  

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Royal Scottish Academy Christmas Show

​19 November to 22 December 2022

The Royal Scottish Academy
The Mound
Edinburgh
EH2 2EL

www.royalscottishacademy.org

I have this little new painting in the RSA Christmas Show

“An Exercise in Orange”. 13.2cm x 18.4cm oil on panel

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​I​ Take​ What is Mine

​An exhibition by Arusha Gallery in Gallery 9
                                                       High Line Nine
                                                       507 W 27th Street
                                                       New York NY10001
1 - 28 September 2022
With work by Helen Flockhart
                      James Owens
                      Anousha Payne
                      Plum Cloutman
                      Robert Fry

“I was Chloris, who am now called Flora” 120cm x 190cm oil on linen

I'm Delighted to be showing these above paintings at Masterpiece Art Fair in Chelsea, London from 30 June to 6 July 2022 with Arusha Gallery.  Also showing with Arusha Gallery will be Charlotte Keates, Lisa Wright, Robert Fry and Claire Partington.  
For enquiries please contact:  [email protected] 
www.arushagallery.com
​https://www.masterpiecefair.com/dealer-detail/495/arusha-gallery
Picture"Tyger's Delight" 18.3cm x 24cm oil on panel 2022
This little painting will be in the Artist Aid Ukraine charity exhibition in:
Pentagon Centre, 4th Floor
36-38 Washington Street
Glasgow
G3 8AZ
Private View 6.30 Wednesday 22 June, exhibition continues till Saturday 25th June 11am to 6pm daily.
www.artistaidukraine.org

There is a link to register for online bidding if unable to attend:
​https://app.galabid.com/artistaidukraine/register
Artist Aid Ukraine's aim is to support people displaced as a result of the invasion of Ukraine and ongoing conflict, and it partners with the Red Cross and Opora.

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Following on from a residency at Marchmont House in Fogo last summer, I have some paintings and drawings which resulted from the residency in "Second Nature", a group exhibition of artists connected to Marchmont, including:
Laura Derby
Jack Brindley
Annabel Wightman
Charlie Poulson
Martha Ellis
Gary Anderson
Andrew Mackenzie
Richard Gouldsworthy
Emma Hislop
Sara Rhys
Michelle de Bruin
Frippy Jameson

The show runs from 11 June to 24 July on Fridays and Saturdays 11am - 4pm at:

Patriothall Galleries, Edinbugh, EH3 5AY

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RSA Annual Exhibition 23 April to 12 June 2022
​https://www.rsaannualexhibition.org/about/

​I have a painting in the RSA Annual Exhibition in Edinburgh after having been elected RSA in September last year
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"Weep Not My Sister" oil on linen, 88cm x 128cm 2020

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Royal Scottish Academy Christmas Show
In September I was elected RSA and I have a painting in this year's RSA Christmas Show:
​academiciansgallery.org/viewing-room/21-the-christmas-show/

27 November - 22 December 2021
The Academicians' Gallery
Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
The Mound                                                      Opening Hours
Edinburgh                                                        Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
EH2 2EL                                                          Sunday  12pm - 5pm

"Siren" 30.5cm x 23cm oil on panel 2021

 These two paintings will be part of Arusha Gallery, London's exhibition "Bearded with Moss"  which opens Tuesday 16 November 2021 6-8pm and runs from 17 - 24 November .  
Arusha Gallery London
46 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7QA
email: [email protected].       www.arushagallery.com
For available work please contact Arusha Gallery:

email:  [email protected]        web:  www.arushagallery.com

phone:  ​ 0131 557 1412
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Marchmont House Residency
I spent 17 to 30 August 2021 on a Wasps residency in the old Squashcourt Studio at Marchmont.  The resulting work will be shown in Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh in February 2022

 
Art In Mind Auction
I have painted a vase which will be part of the Art In Mind auction  organised by artist June Carey to raise money for the Scottish Association for Mental Health - SAMH, and hosted by Lyon & Turnbull  23 - 30 May 2021.  46 artists have each created a unique artwork on 46 vases.  These will be on display at Glasgow Print Studio from 18 - 29 May.
https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/news/article/art-in-mind/?pc=30​
​www.gpsart.co.uk
Lyon & Turnbull recommend registering with them prior to the auction:

https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/account/register/?returnurl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.lyonandturnbull.com%3a443%2fnews%2farticle%2fart-in-mind%2f%3fpc%​
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Two new paintings for www.arushagallery.com 
email:   [email protected]

Beasts

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Opening 26 November 2020 in Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, and running till 20 December
A joint exhibition of 21 new oil paintings by Helen Flockhart and 6 sculptures by Beth Carter 


For sales please contact: [email protected]
www.arushagallery.com
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I'm delighted that the newly published 2nd edition of Gerda Stevenson's "Quines" bears an image of my painting "Lover's Eye" on the front cover. 
Quines:  Poems in tribute to women of Scotland is a beautiful collection.  I heard Gerda reading "The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots" on Women's hour in March 2018.  It made such an impression on me that it inspired me to paint "Lover's Eye" which featured in my 2018 show with Arusha Gallery, "Linger Awhile", an exhibiton inspired by the life of Mary Queen of Scots.
Quines is published by Luath Press.

https://www.luath.co.uk/productsq/quines-poems-in-tribute-to-women-of-scotland?rq=Quines

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"Eros As A Girl" 25cm x 20cm oil on panel 2019


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RGI Kelly Gallery
Allusion IV
26 January - 23 February 2019
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm

RGI Kelly Gallery
118 Douglas Street, Glasgow, G2 4ET
www.theroyalglasgowinstituteofthefinearts.co.uk
email:  [email protected]
0141 248 6386
This new painting, "Eros As A Girl" is available in this exhibition of elected RGIs

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​Linger Awhile, first shown at Arusha Gallery Edinburgh, will continue in Linlithgow Burgh Halls from 12 October 2018 till 20 January 2019.
This Body of 17 paintings inspired by the life of Mary Queen of Scots hangs a stone's throw from Mary's birthplace in Linlithgow palace where her story began.    www.linlithgowburghhalls.com
​                             email:  [email protected]
                             phone:  01506 282720

A book to accompany the show has been produced by Arusha Gallery and will be available to buy at the private view from 7 - 9pm on 11 October 2018.  Thereafter it will be available from Arusha Gallery
                             www.arushagallery.com
                             email:  [email protected]
                             phone:  0131 557 1412
The book contains an essay by Louisa Elderton, 28 colour images and a poem by Gerda Stevenson*
Book photos by Susan Castillo
​*Gerda Stevenson's poem "The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots from "Quines" on Luath Press

Linger Awhile
My solo show of new paintings will be open at Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh from 14 September 2019 till 7 October.  The show will then travel to Linlithgow Burgh Halls, where it will run from 12 October until  19 January 2019

A book to accompany the show is available from the gallery.  It includes an essay by Louisa Elderton,  28 colour images and a poem by Gerda Stevenson*  Please contact:

email   [email protected]
phone   0131 557 1412

www.arushagallery.com
www.linlithgowburghhalls.com/

*"The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots" from Gerda's book "Quines" on Luath Press
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Hir Rob Ryall, 120cm x 90cm oil on linen 2018
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My painting "Shallows" is hanging in the Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2018:  Figurative Art Today

The exhibition will run from Wednesday 31 January to Saturday 17 February 2018.


https://columbiathreadneedleprize.mallgalleries.org.uk/ 

https://columbiathreadneedleprize.mallgalleries.org.uk/browse-and-buy/shallows


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In The Morning It Is Green

Solo show of new paintings in Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
8 - 27 June 2017
www.arushagallery.com
contact:  [email protected]



Review of my solo show in Arusha Gallery in The List, by Bill Hare:   www.list.co.uk/article/92146-helen-flockhart-in-the-morning-it-is-green/  ​
INK:  Public Archive - Five Decades of Printmaking at the Glasgow Print Studio
A monotype print which I produced at Glasgow Print Studio in 1991 has been selected for this exhibition which runs from 11 February till 26 March 2017.  The exhibiton was curated by AHM:  Sam Ainsley, David Harding and Alexander Moffat, and displays 56 works by 52 artists spanning the five decades since Glasgow Print Studio's founding in 1972.

http://www.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk/Home/DisplayExhibition/164?year=2017

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London Art Fair 2017  18 - 22 January

I have some paintings in London Art Fair with Arusha Gallery in Stand G36
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http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/galleries/arusha-gallery/

​​Solo Exhibition 2017

​I will be holding a solo exhibition of new paintings in Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, opening on 8 June 2017

www.arushagallery.com
Picture"Corsage", 72cm x 49cm, oil on canvas, 2016


New painting, "Corsage", on show at:
The 153rd Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition
The Mitchell
Granville Street
Glasgow
G3 7DN

12 - 27 November 2016


www.royalglasgowinstitute.org

Picture"Low Whistle", 26cm x 18cm, oil on panel, 2016
This new little painting has been purchased by the Lillie Art Gallery for their permanent collection

http://www.edlc.co.uk/arts/lillie_art_gallery/collection.aspx
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 The painting can be seen in the Lillie Art Gallery from 20 August until 21 September as part of an exhibition of past and present elected RGIs
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 ​http://www.edlc.co.uk/arts/lillie_art_gallery/exhibitions_at_the_lillie.aspx


And Jan Patience has written about the show and the painting in The Herald on Saturday 3 September 2016
http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/14721197.RGI_finds_its_feet_in_Milngavie/?ref=rss




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Picture"What if Charli had a cat?", 43cm x 31cm, oil on panel, 2016
This new painting is in Compass Gallery, Glasgow, as part of their summer exhibition
 
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www.compassgallery.co.uk



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PicturePiebald Centaur, 36cm x 56cm, oil on board
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

13 June - 21 August 2016
​www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2016

I have a painting in this year's  Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
My painting is hanging in Gallery VIII which has been curated by David Remfry RA


Exhibited artworks can be viewed on the RA Summer Explorer website:

se.royalacademy.org.uk/galleries/gallery-VIII

https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/artworks/helen-flockhart/917



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PictureEncounter, 41cm x 51cm, oil on canvas, 2009
The Scottish ENDARKENMENT
ART AND UNREASON /1945 TO THE PRESENT
"a multi-layered thematic exhibition curated by Bill Hare and Andrew Patrizio of the University of Edinburgh, which presents a comprehensive and complex approach to the challenging concerns which have obsessed many of the most important and innovative Scottish artists  since the end of World War Two"  

I am delighted to be represented in this exhibition in Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh.  The exhibiton runs from Friday 13 May until 29 August 2016.  


https://dovecotstudios.com/gallery/exhibitions/the-scottish-endarkenment-art-and-unreason-1945-to-present/


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Picture"Another Gathering", 80cm x 125cm, oil on linen, 2016
"Another Gathering" won the Concept Fine Art Award at Paisley Art Institute 128th Annual Exhibition Sat 14 May - Sun 26 June 2016          www.paisleyartinstitute.com/



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If you find yourself in Stirling: the Smith Art Gallery and Museum have my painting, "Legacy" on display in their exhibition of 20th Century art from their collection.


http://www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk/flockhart-legacy/
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PictureGreen Woman, 28cm x 20cm, oil on panel, 2016
      I am pleased to be working with Arusha Gallery in Edinburgh and will be holding my first         solo show with them in 2017


       www.arushagallery.com

PictureGreen Garden, 49cm x 67cm, oil on board, 2006
               Women's Work:  Artists in the collection of Terri Lipman                                                                Gallery of Northumberland                                                                                                                  Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
               
               Two of my paintings can be seen in this exhibiton from

                     10 March till 1 May 2016
                                                                                                                 
            



PictureYellow Flowered Dress, 49cm x 71cm, oil on linen, 2014
                                                                                                                                                                                                               www.artgalleryofnorthumberland.com



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