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twice in 1976 and 1978 Brett Whiteley causing controversy with his Paintings

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Brett Whiteley TitleSelf portrait in the studioMediumoil, collage and hair on canvasDimensions200.5 x 259cm

Winner: Archibald Prize 1976

Whiteley followed this win with an even more expressive work in 1978: Art, life and the other thing, a triptych that explored three issues -- the status of photographic representation in portraiture, the Dobell

controversy and the representation of Whiteley's own battle with heroin addiction.
In 1978 Brett Whiteley won the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman

Prizes all in the same year, the only time this has happened. It was his second win for the Archibald and the other prizes as well.




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