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The road less travelled: The tough choices behind the art of Brock Q. Piper
Sydney’s often riven art world has seen it all before. An artist’s exhibition opening night sullied by a rival’s unwelcome emissaries, cast
Andrew McIlroy
Feb 27, 20195 min read
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Review - Unmasking the portraiture of McLean Edwards
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize judge, Wendy Sharpe, described Tim Storrier’s 2017 winning painting of fellow Australian artist McLean Ed
Andrew McIlroy
Jul 9, 20183 min read
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The shaming of sexual desire, eroticism and voyeurism: Remaking the female nude in contemporary art
The female body in an artistic form has always been capable of arousing sexual desire. From playfully seductive, neoclassical portrayals to
Andrew McIlroy
May 11, 20186 min read
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Hieronymus Bosch to Patricia Piccinini: Our long-held fascination with the grotesque
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s sculptures at first shock, no doubt intentionally. This should not come as any great surprise, in ev
Andrew McIlroy
Apr 10, 20186 min read
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"I believe in a deeply ordered chaos", Francis Bacon: The artist's dark pursuit of reason
On the eve of his major retrospective in 1971 at the Grand Palais in Paris, Francis Bacon suffered what seemed an incomprehensible loss with
Andrew McIlroy
Mar 2, 20184 min read
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