
Gareth Sansom: Transformer
27 Oct 2017
⬤ The Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia 14 Sep 2017 - 27 Jan 2018
⬤ The Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia 14 Sep 2017 - 27 Jan 2018
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Sebastian Smee barely got a word in during the Q & A held soon after the opening of Gareth Sansom’s retrospective at the NGV. Sansom, just about the ultimate alpha-male for all of his cross-dressing, entertained the audience with tales of his early cricketing prowess, his father returning home after the war without a limb, his encounters with the last of the Antipodeans and his ill-fated meeting with his artistic hero Francis Bacon while in London in the 1960s. But it was a story he told concerning his painting Sweeney Agonistes (2005), hung in the same room as the talk, that was perhaps the most revealing.
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