Louise Bourgeois is the kind of artist that gives one shivers. A giant of 20th century art, she’s most known for her textiles and large-scale sculptures (she was also a painter and printmaker), through which she fearlessly interrogated the extremes of intimacy and personhood, sexuality and mortality, the conscious and unconscious.
Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois later moved to New York in 1938, where she died in 2010, aged 98. She began to receive wide acclaim in her seventies, and it is said that she produced some of her greatest work in the last two decades of her life.
This summer the Art Gallery of New South Wales is showing the largest Bourgeois survey ever exhibited in Australia. We asked five Australian artists influenced by Bourgeois—Juz
