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Bare

Degrees of undress

Bare: Degrees of undress celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin. 

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Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna Everage, 1982 (printed 2002) Lewis Morley. © Lewis Morley Archive LLC
Hetti
Hetti, 1990 (printed 2013) Michael Riley. © Michael Riley/Copyright Agency, 2024
Billy Slater
Billy Slater, 2005 Julian Kingma. © Julian Kingma
Professor Germaine Greer
Professor Germaine Greer, 1999 Polly Borland. © Polly Borland
Dave Graney and Clare Moore
Dave Graney and Clare Moore, 1996 Bleddyn Butcher. © Bleddyn Butcher
Bleddyn@Tenderprey.com
Waiting for Zipporah (Christine Anu)
Waiting for Zipporah (Christine Anu), 2002 Elizabeth Barden. © Elizabeth Barden
Dan Sultan
Dan Sultan, 2011 Martin Philbey. © Martin Philbey
Telphia
Telphia, 1990 (printed 2013) Michael Riley. © Michael Riley/Copyright Agency, 2024
David Walsh
David Walsh, 2010 Andres Serrano. © Andres Serrano
Maria
Maria, 1986 (printed 2013) Michael Riley. © Michael Riley/Copyright Agency, 2024
Linda and Binni
Linda and Binni, 1984 (printed 2013) Michael Riley. © Michael Riley/Copyright Agency, 2024
Stephen and Russell Page
Stephen and Russell Page, 1993 (printed 2011) Robert Rosen. © Robert Rosen
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