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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  28
• Lot Description:
  Adam Cullen
  (1965-2012)
  Uncle Roy, 2003
  acrylic on canvas
  184cm high x 183cm wide
  signed, titled and dated 03 to verso
• Provenance:
  Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney
• Notes:
  Adam Cullen was born in Sydney in 1965. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sydney in 1986 and since then produced paintings, ceramics, videos, three-dimensional objects he called 'instalments' and etchings, and a large number of drawings. He first gained recognition in the art world when he chained a decomposing pig's head to his ankle for two weeks. Cullen turned to portrait painting in 1997 when he began entering the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He eventually won the prestigious prize in 2000 with his portrait of actor David Wenham and portraits became an important part of his practice. Of his work Wayne Tunnicliffe (who curated Cullen's 'Let's get Lost') says ÒCullen's paintings are raw, aggressive and angry with, at times, a narcotic intensity. They are also empathic, melancholic and expressive. In many paintings, beauty can be found in such formal elements as his use of colours, the ways paint is applied to canvas, how people, words and things are arranged on the monochromatic backgrounds. The pathos of his subject matter also has a form of abject beauty, the beauty of the decayed and coming apart, of a humanity that is to be found in failed endeavours, misunderstandings and missed connections.Ó
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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