Rodney Pople

Rodney Pople (born 6 September 1952) is an Australian visual artist.

Biography

Pople was born on 6 September 1952, in Launceston. ^[1] His works have been the cause of some controversy. ^[2] Pople studied photography in Tasmania, and sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, London. ^[3] He teaches at the National Art School in Sydney. ^[3]

In 2008, Pople won the Sir John Sulman Prize with a work entitled Stage Fright. ^[4] In 2010, works in an exhibition entitled "Bellini 21c" were the focus of protests. ^[5] The works included images of Bellini's San Zaccaria Altarpiece overlaid with pornography. ^[3]

Pople won the Glover Prize for landscape painting in March 2012 with a work that included the figure of Martin Bryant, the convicted perpetrator of the Port Arthur Massacre in the foreground of the landscape of Port Arthur. ^[6] Later in that year, a work entitled "Degas's Night" which included Degas' sculpture Little Dancer of Fourteen Years on the background of red-light district in Darlinghurst, New South Wales was also the cause of controversy. ^[2]

He was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2014 and 2015.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. "Collection – Artists – Rodney Pople". National Gallery of Victoria . Retrieved 10 July 2014.
2. Fortescue, Elizabeth (15 June 2012). "Rodney Pople: One of Australia's most controversial artists". The Daily Telegraph . News Corp Australia . Retrieved 10 July 2014.
3. "Altared state". The Sydney Morning Herald . Fairfax Media. 28 June 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
4. "Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 2008 – Rodney Pople – Stage Fright". Art Gallery of New South Wales . Retrieved 10 July 2014.
5. Boland, Michaela (15 September 2010). "'Innocents' protest against art show". The Australian . News Corp Australia . Retrieved 10 July 2014.
6. Ogilvie, Felicity (12 March 2012). "Art or exploitation of grief?". PM . Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 10 July 2014.