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| Ros Oxley & Bill Henson |
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| David Wenhem & Kate Agnew |
The last time the
Shuttle attended a
Bill Henson show at
Ros Oxley's Gallery in Paddington we encountered the State wallopers barring entry and piling the exhibits into a large paddy wagon. Oh for the publicity!.
It spread around the world and even had then PM
Kevin Rudd proclaiming the photographs-some of teens -
'disgusting' (although he said hadn't actually seen them) while the Opposition leader
Malcolm Turnbull declared them to be art (and as he owned a Henson I guess he would).
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| SBS TV's Jenny Brockie |
Thursday night's opening was a rather sedate affair but all the better for seeing Henson's latest works which really are quite beautiful. The new exhibition marks the return of Henson’s fascination with the human form, after a 2010 show of landscape photography. In an interview for the
Sydney Morning Herald, Henson told art critic
John McDonald the exhibition
: “will focus more on the body, and less on landscape”. There are 18 works in total and editions of 5 of each at a cool $30,000 a go which makes around $2,500,000
worth of art
on the walls. Get out those Box Brownies now and start snapping away.
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| John Moriarty admires the art |
Watch the video below of the 2008 police raid on the gallery.
Bill Henson : 20 Sep-13 Oct Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 8 Soudan Ln, Paddington 2021
