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Callum Morton, Monument #32: Helter Shelter, 2018, Alfred Deakin Place, Ballarat.

Callum Morton, Monument #32: Helter Shelter
  • Rex Butler


28 Mar 2020
Alfred Deakin Place Ballarat 16 Jan - 5 Apr 2020

There it sits in Alfred Deakin Place off the main street of Ballarat, just as confronting, divisive and aesthetically repugnant as the original on which it's based. It's Callum Morton's Monument #32: Helter Shelter (2018), a huge papier mâché reproduction of the top half of American President Donald Trump's head. It's all there as we so unwillingly remember: the fake yellow suntan, the thinning white teased pompadour, the narcissistically slitted eyes.

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