Porter Brook Gallery

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	<title> Porter Brook Gallery</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Harry Epworth Allen</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:30:27 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>HE Allen (1894-1958)

H.E. Allen was born in Sheffield in 1894 and attended King Edward VII School. He worked for Arthur Balfour on leaving school having gained the highest academic qualifications. From 1912 he attended Sheffield School of Art as a part-time student.
He exhibited at Heeley Art Club, Sheffield Society of Artists, Liverpool Walker Gallery, the RBA, the Pastel Society and others including from 1933 the Royal Academy where he showed a total of 39 works over 25 years. A close contemporary of Stanley Royle and Charles and David Jagger at the Sheffield School of Art he also studied watercolour with Frank Saltfleet in the 1920's. His work appeared in Apollo, The Studio, The Artist, Yorkshire Life Illustrated, and other magazines. 

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		<excerpt>HE Allen (1894-1958)  H.E. Allen was born in Sheffield in 1894 and attended King Edward VII School. He worked for Arthur Balfour on leaving school having gained the...</excerpt>

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		<title>Roy Ridsdale RCA Figure Drawings</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:22:59 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Roy Ridsdale teaches figure on Mondays at the Porter Brook Gallery. Please get in touch for more information.

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		<excerpt>Roy Ridsdale teaches figure on Mondays at the Porter Brook Gallery. Please get in touch for more information.        </excerpt>

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		<title>ANDREW HUNT Works Currently Available</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:25:50 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator> Porter Brook Gallery</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Born in Chester in 1973 Andrew grew up in North Wales and attended Bath Academy of Art in 1992 where he studied for a degree in graphic design and illustration.
In 1996 he moved to Sheffield where he settled after discovering the city’s industrial heritage provided rich settings and narratives for his figurative oil paintings.


Selected Exhibitions

2012              Andrew Hunt's 'Olympians', Cadogan Contemporary, London
This exhibition can be seen at: http://www.cadogancontemporary.com/artists/HUNA/

2012              30th Anniversary Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London
2011		Porter Brook Gallery, Sheffield
2011               An Exhibition in Hampshire, Cadogan Contemporary, Winchester
2010		Porter Brook Gallery, Sheffield
2010         	Cadogan Contemporary, Solo Show 
2008          	National Portrait Gallery, BP  Portrait Exhibition
2006          	Sheffield to Tobago, Cadogan Contemporary
2004          	Cadogan Contemporary, Solo Show
2003          	Cadogan Contemporary, Summer Exhibition
2002          	Cadogan Contemporary, Solo Exhibition
1996          	Manchester Academy of Fine Arts
1995          	National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Exhibition

Selected Prizes/Awards
1995          Runner up, Macmillan Prize, Royal College Art
1994          Highly Commended, North Wales Open
1991          First Prize for Illustration, National Eisteddfod of Wales

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		<excerpt>Born in Chester in 1973 Andrew grew up in North Wales and attended Bath Academy of Art in 1992 where he studied for a degree in graphic design and illustration. In...</excerpt>

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		<title>Paul Curtis NEAC</title>
				
		<link>http://cargocollective.com/porterbrookgallery/Paul-Curtis-NEAC</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:18:47 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator> Porter Brook Gallery</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Paul Curtis b.1941


Birmingham College of Art Dip AD 1959 – 1962
Royal Academy Schools, London 1st Hons 1962 – 1965
Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University Fine Art Department 1965 - 1997
Painting full-time since 1996
Solo Exhibitions
Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley;  All Hallowes Gallery, London; Helen Swift Gallery, Penzance; Falmouth Art Gallery &#38; Museum; S10 Gallery, Sheffield;  Ruskin Gallery, Gloucestershire; Northlight Gallery, Huddersfield



Paul Curtis
SOLD 'Harbour &#38; Sorrel Field 2012'
Acrylic and Oil 20cm x 20cm
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Paul Curtis
SOLD
Acrylic and Oil 20cm x 20cm
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		<excerpt>Paul Curtis b.1941   Birmingham College of Art Dip AD 1959 – 1962 Royal Academy Schools, London 1st Hons 1962 – 1965 Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam...</excerpt>

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		<title>Endre Roder</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:28:32 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Endre Roder b.1933

Endre Röder was born in Budapest his childhood, between the ages of two and fourteen, was spent in Malta. Since 1949 he has lived in England. He trained as a map draughtsman with the Ordnance Survey following his National Service with the Army in 1954. Roder then studied architecture and art and went on to teach in the Sheffield area. He gained the position of Education Services Curator with Sheffield City Art Galleries and left in 1974 to lecture in art history at Bretton Hall. In 1988 he became a full- time painter. He has exhibited widely both here and abroad including at Waterman Fine Art, London; the Belgrave Gallery; the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils; the John Noott Gallery, Broadway; Farmilo Fiumano Gallery, London; and Derwent-Wye Fine Art at Exhibit Gallery, Rowsley.

SOLD
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SOLD
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SOLD
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SOLD
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SOLD
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SOLD
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		<excerpt>Endre Roder b.1933  Endre Röder was born in Budapest his childhood, between the ages of two and fourteen, was spent in Malta. Since 1949 he has lived in England....</excerpt>

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		<title>W S Taylor</title>
				
		<link>http://cargocollective.com/porterbrookgallery/W-S-Taylor</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:09:56 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>W.S.Taylor 1920-2010


Studied at the Sheffield School of Art 1936-39 and at the Royal College of Art 1939-43. He taught at the Schools of Art in Sheffield, Rotherham and Chesterfield. He exhibited widely including at the Royal Academy, New English Art Club, the Society of British Artists, The Sheffield Society of Artists. He was Dean of the faculty of art and design at Sheffield Polytechnic1972-75.

'Girl with Deckchairs'
Oil on Board 76cm x 60 cm
c.1954-59
Featured on page 27 on the book WS Taylor by John Basford
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'The Sunne Rising'
1952
Etching and Drypoint
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SOLD
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'Untitled'
Oil on Board
61cm x 50.5cm
1960
As featured on page 34 of the book WS Taylor by John Basford
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SOLD
'Garden with Shrub Roses'
1986
Oil on Board
40cm x 53 cm
As featured on page 40 of the book WS Taylor by John Basford
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		<excerpt>W.S.Taylor 1920-2010   Studied at the Sheffield School of Art 1936-39 and at the Royal College of Art 1939-43. He taught at the Schools of Art in Sheffield,...</excerpt>

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		<title>Andy Cropper</title>
				
		<link>http://cargocollective.com/porterbrookgallery/Andy-Cropper</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:20:39 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>'Woolworths'
Oil on Canvas 100cm x 100cm
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'Shutters'
Oil on Canvas 100cm x 100cm
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'Poster Shreds'
Oil on Canvas 100cm x 100cm
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'Bus Back'
25cm x 25cm
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'Camera'
25cm x 25cm
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'Chrysanths'
25cm x 25cm
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SOLD 'Clouds'
25cm x 25cm
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'People'
25cm x 25cm
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Artists Statement:

Things are important.

Things? Ephemeral moments, glimpses that catch your gaze. Mundane spaces, moments and actions that hold your attention and seem to freeze time.

I am interested in serendipity- “happy accidents” and the emotions that come about from noticing serendipity. Familiar examples a water droplet dribbling down the side of a glass, a speck of dust in a shaft of sunlight or a magnificent sunset over the brow of a hill.

It is not a case of something being beautiful or filled with huge meaning, sometimes I will respond to something without truthfully knowing why. For some reason at a moment of time a thing has importance.

This would suggest photography as being a way to go, but I want to reconstruct that moment that disappeared. I want to pay homage to it, actively deconstruct it, actively reconstruct it, add myself to the mix as after all I am the person that had the moment and am choosing to portray it. Some of the photos I take if enlarged would become seriously uninteresting but by the action of painting, having made a picture up out of many marks, it gains a vibrancy, a texture, which is substantially different to a photograph even if the initial impression of my work is photographic.

As a painter I am unable to capture these moments immediately and even photography can miss them or lose the emotional connection as it records the event. I use my camera in the same way that many folk use a sketchbook, to test, record and expand on.

I’m not aiming to glamorise the mundane, but in a search to find interest in the things around us that we usually ignore. There are fascinating things around each of us and worth observing if we look for them. I’m interested in the spaces that we miss, that we tend to use ‘entertainment’ to distract us from. I’m fascinated by the world around me but not in an engaging way, but as an observer. I love watching the world go by. I am a voyeur.

Andy Cropper. Artist.


The artist reserves the right to be identified as the artist in all instances. If you are wanting to reproduce, lend, share, make monetary gain from the image of these paintings in any form you will need to gain permission from the artist.</description>
		
		<excerpt>'Woolworths' Oil on Canvas 100cm x 100cm   'Shutters' Oil on Canvas 100cm x 100cm   'Poster Shreds' Oil on Canvas 100cm x 100cm   'Bus Back' 25cm x 25cm   'Camera'...</excerpt>

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		<title>David Matthews</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:54:11 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Born in Dewsbury and educated at the Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys, David came to Sheffield in the late 1960’s to train as a teacher at City College of Education. He graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Education with honours in Art and French from Sheffield University. Subsequently, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Sheffield University.

David’s professional career saw him teaching art in two large Sheffield Comprehensive Schools, culminating as Head of Art, before moving to Stradbroke College as Arts Co-ordinator in 1986. In 1989 he moved to Norton College as lecturer in Fine Art, teaching Painting, Sculpture, Life Drawing and Photography to academic and vocational students.

During this time, David has continued to paint, and exhibited several times in both the Sheffield Local Open and National Open Exhibitions at the Graves Gallery in the 1970’s. He also exhibited in the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale in 1975, and was then selected to exhibit in a 1976 Arts Council touring exhibition to various centres in the UK, including the Palace of Westminster, Camden Arts Centre, Newcastle and Edinburgh. David has also exhibited in the Mayfield Gallery, the Kingfield Art Show, Sheffield, and the Great Sheffield Art Show.

Since his early retirement in 2004 David has finally found the time to develop his vocation as a painter, to which he has returned with renewed vigour. Originally an abstract expressionist painter, David is now keenly figurative with a passion for colour. The work he chooses to display is both retrospective and current, reflecting his interest in urban and rural landscapes he has visited and the people within. Places like Collioure, Antibes, Dubrovnik and Venice are inspiration for his work. He is an eclectic artist, so enjoys painting portraits, natural forms such as flowers, drawing and painting the nude, and exploring all these subjects through photography. 

He has work in private collections at home and abroad.









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		<excerpt>Born in Dewsbury and educated at the Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys, David came to Sheffield in the late 1960’s to train as a teacher at City College of...</excerpt>

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		<title>MARY NOBLE</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:24:11 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Mary Noble

Studied at Psalter Lane Art College between 1975 and 1979, graduating with a BA Hons in Fine art.  She then taught drawing and painting at Rotherham, Norton and Chesterfield colleges on Foundation and BTEC courses from 1979 to 1991 and was a visiting lecturer in Fine Art on the B.A. course at Psalter Lane in 1989 and 1993.  Group shows include the Stowells Trophy exhibition at the Royal Academy, London in 1978 and 1979, and two shows in Boston, Mass. U.S.A. in 1989 and 1990, the latter with B.A. sponsorship.  In 1992 she had a solo exhibition in the Genkan Gallery, Tokyo-American Club Japan, assisted by a grant from the British Council.  In the summer of 2010 her most recent exhibition was in Gozo, Malta.

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Vase of Flowers-on canvas
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"Back Garden Montgomery Road 1985"
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		<excerpt>Mary Noble  Studied at Psalter Lane Art College between 1975 and 1979, graduating with a BA Hons in Fine art.  She then taught drawing and painting at Rotherham,...</excerpt>

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		<title>Martin F Bedford</title>
				
		<link>http://cargocollective.com/porterbrookgallery/Martin-F-Bedford</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 09:32:31 +0000</pubDate>

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Born in 1955, Martin grew up in the Thames riverside town of Gravesend in Kent. From the early age of 12 he attended saturday morning art classes, first at Gravesends own school of art and then later at the Medway Art College. After leaving school he did a foundation course at Canterbury Art College, before coming to Sheffield in 1976 where he gained a fine art degree at the now defunkt Psalter Lane College of Art &#38; Design. Although he started as a painter he transferred to the Photography course and spent a major part of his time documenting live gigs around the city and ultimately further afield. As a result he joined The Damned and The Adverts on their first Uk tour and also produced many promo shots for performers such as Roy Harper, Ronnie Lane and Nils Lofgren.

After leaving college he worked as a graphic designer for Sheffield University for about 3 months before, along with John Redfern, Chris Andrews, Adrian Vincan and Phil Mills, he became a founder member of The Leadmill. Taking on the role as 'house' artist, he began creating the silkscreen posters for which the venue, in those early years, became known. Initially started as an 'arts lab' The Leadmill promoted Theatre, Dance, and Multi-media shows, various musical genres that most other clubs (at the time) wouldn't touch such as Punk, Reggae and Industrial Noize bands, Jazz, Blues and many older acts who were still having a hard time in the post-punk era. The complex also housed band rehearsal rooms, art studios and a fanzine, 'Properganda', ran community workshops, had a wholefood cafe and eventually a real ale bar and was run collectively by a motley bunch of hippies, punks and anarchist's. It played a significant role in the city during the miners strike in the '80's when it hosted many benefits for both the NUM and the Forgemasters strike. However as times changed so did the Leadmill. The political stance was gradually squashed and the centre became a more commercial club, and after 12 years (1980-92) of creating posters and the public image of The Leadmill, the organisation and Martin, amicably, parted company. Martin maintained his studio for a further 2 years, but also moved on.

In 1990 he was invited by the Soviet Unions Artist Union to be guest of honour and to exhibit, at a festival of poster art in Odessa, Ukraine, where artists from all the (then) Soviet countries attended. During this, very interesting, time he visited Moscow, St Petersburg, Doneskt (once twinned with Sheffield), and Kiev, as well as Odessa, and says he lived on illicit vodka and tomatos for 3 weeks.                         

In 1992, still based at his Leadmill studio (which in the '60's had been the location of the Esquire club), he presented a multi-media event called 'Songs of Antlers' in both the Leadmill and Scotia Works (at that time a derelict little mesters complex located next to the club). Drawing on and exploring ancient myths and shamanic beliefs, it featured not only Sheffield circus performers, musicians and artists but also Native American, French and Russian artists he had met on his travels. In this year, while the city hosted the Student Olympic Games, he also brought over Ukranian poster artist and musician, Valeri Viter, to take part in a dual poster exhibition in Sheffields Crucible theatre, as well as holding several of his own painting shows.

From 1990-94 he ran 'Stuff and Nonsense', a small company, selling badges, t-shirts and stickers of his designs, aimed at the 'new circus' community, his biggest selling sticker being 'Shit Happens', and he organised 3 national juggling conventions in the city.

In '94 along with Chris Cooper, and quickly joined by Keith Lauchlan, Jimmy Stone &#38; 'J.Baki', he set up 'The Loft'. Another small community arts project with a plethora of volunteers, it was highly productive in its 4 year lifespan. It offered office and band rehearsal space, with the largest area reserved for creating club decor. Promoting local band nights at the legendary Hallamshire Hotel, once a well known muso pub in Sheffield, with nights called 'Off our heads and in your face', they were reknown for their individually themed nights with decor to match. Soon they were regularly decoring other clubs promotions and went on to work alongside outfits such as Megadog, and various underground collectives across the country, organising 'Chill out' rooms with decor, Dj's, musicians and performers, and their own large scale events. In 1995 Martin designed and organised the 25th anniversary celebrations for Glastonbury festival. Drawing on his own contacts with the festival, circus and of course The Loft, he took a crew of 100 (mainly from Sheffield, but also Scotland, Bristol and London) to the site for 3 weeks pre the event to build huge articulated models and design costumes for one of the festivals most famous years. It was the year Pulp took the festival by storm and it seemed the whole of Sheffield was there. From this success Martin &#38; The Loft designed the set for Sven Vaths 'Cocoon' german tour in '97' with which they went on the road. On their return they found their base, a delapidated building they rented, had been sold for flats, and they were locked out. Always a very loose and anarchic collective at the best of times, the group disbanded and went their seperate ways.

From '97 to 2008 Martin managed, co-managed and house managed pubs and clubs, managed bands and solo artists, and promoted gig nights, while continuing to design posters. Bands, whom he says he 'enthusiastically mis-managed', included the festival favourites 'Elfin', rhythm'n'blues rockers 'Do$ch', Nu-Blues trio 'Chicken Legs Weaver'  and hard rockers 'Crowleys Dead', as well as solo artists Andrew Oxley, Andy Weaver and Tom Rodwell. Since then he has concentrated purely on his poster work, designing limited edition prints for artists such as Patti Smith, Heaven 17 and his old mate Richard Hawley among many, many others.

In 2008, having visited the USA many times since the early '80's, he achieved a lifelong dream by designing posters for the Warfield theatre in San Francisco and met many of his poster artist heroes at the Trps (The Rock Poster Society) Festival in the Hall of Flowers, in Golden Gate Park.

He has published two books of his posters, 'Up against the wall' (the Leadmill posters) and 'Stick 'em up' which covers much of his work since 1992 to the present. Over the years he has exhibited his posters and paintings, in both solo and joint exhibition's, in Sheffield, London, New York, Vancouver, Paris and Odessa.

He has two sons, Sam and Josh, of whom he is inordinately proud, lives with his long suffering girlfriend Nicky and their dog Fly, and has a grandaughter, Eva, who is the light in his life.



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		<excerpt>  Born in 1955, Martin grew up in the Thames riverside town of Gravesend in Kent. From the early age of 12 he attended saturday morning art classes, first at...</excerpt>

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