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Leah King-Smith

Contributing artists

Born: 1957, Gympie, QLD
Works: Brisbane

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Ben Roberts-Smith, 2018

by Julian Kingma
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Commissioned in 2018 with funds raised through the 2020 project

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Charles Ulm

Extraordinary airmen make aviation history

Passion

Charles is my wingman

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Look Closer, 2013 by Yanni Floros

Yanni Floros

More about In the flesh artists

Yanni Floros is an Adelaide based artist who trained at the National Art School in Sydney graduating as a sculpture major. Since then he has shown his work both locally and internationally in Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Contributing artists

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Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.

Who's Jo?

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Find out about the curator of the exhibition.

Rolling Stones fans, Sydney

‘Never break this heart of stone’

Lust

Desired by millions

Exhibition overview

Watch a video introducing the exhibition
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MDPA judge Jeff Khan, Artistic Director, Performance Space, Sydney.

Nell standing in her workshop next to a cross legged sculpture

Nell

Artists and Collectives

Nell is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land in the Eora Nation, Sydney. Her work fuses mythological, spiritual and popular cultural iconography.

Deborah Kelly sitting on a blue couch in a room with artworks on the walls

Deborah Kelly

Artists and Collectives

Deborah Kelly, based between Gadigal Country, Sydney and Jerrinja Country, Currarong, is known for her multi-disciplinary, exuberant and diverse participatory collages and costumes that come to life in workshops and performances.

Turia Pitt

2021 Annual Appeal

Annual Appeal

In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.

Lan Wang

Artist lovers re-united across the seas

Devotion

Exile burnishes love’s bond

Marianne Egan and her children Gertrude Evans Cahuac and Henry William Cahuac

Maritime disaster leaves poignant picture

Devotion

Absence rends the heart asunder

Graham Sylvester's crowd, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1983 William Yang

From riot to revelry

Nearest & Dearest

Pride, protest, panache

Sean Slattery

Sean Slattery

Vox pops

This is Davide Di Giovanni and he was a principal dancer for the Sydney Dance Company for six or seven years. He got in touch with me to do some video work together and he was just so amazing.

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