Adam Cullen 'Purple Growler' flora

Adam Cullen 'Purple Growler' floraAdam Cullen merges social satire with technicolour excess. An enfant terrible of the art world, he launched onto the Australian art scene by chaining a pigs head to his ankle for two weeks. This punk stunt was followed by a career spent painting tough, uncompromising and challenging subjects, captured with a pop art twist. Cullens Growler is iconic. A sheep dog beams at the viewer, dripping ink, saliva and style. Abstracted against a saturated

‘Croix III’ represents an awarding addition to collectors of Blackman and florals

Made famous by the 1967 Joan Lindsay book

Drowsy beneath the sun

Fluent in the language of emotion and symbolism

one an autobiography and the other a transcript of her correspondence with writer Judith Wright

Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery

The iconography is rich

Onus’s work is a negotiation of cultural identity

and the modernist George Bell

objects and preciousness

and numbered in pencil in margin below image: A

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