The death of artist Adam Cullen in 2012 at the age of forty-six did not shock the Australian art world. There was a feeling that Cullen had “lived by the sword and died by the sword.” His life, a self-fulfilling prophecy of drugs, booze, guns, and controversy. A new retrospective, bringing together over seventy diverse works, seeks to show both the breadth of his practice and perhaps offer a more sympathetic take on his life: not an apology, more a personal consideration of a life cut short.
ADAM CULLEN ART IS PAIN RELIEF
Nov 08, 2023
3 minutes
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