Rodney Pople

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

Pople was born in Launceston, Tasmania.[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.

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.
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