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Getting bare

How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.

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Untitled #21/09 (after Ricci, 1700; featuring Matthew Mitcham)
Untitled #21/09 (after Ricci, 1700; featuring Matthew Mitcham), 2009 Ross Watson. © Ross Watson
Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts, 2003 Peter Brew-Bevan. © Peter Brew-Bevan courtesy of Sue Southam Management
Summer 1986
Summer 1986 Janet Dawson. © Janet Dawson/Copyright Agency, 2024
David Walsh
David Walsh, 2010 Andres Serrano. © Andres Serrano
Professor Germaine Greer
Professor Germaine Greer, 1999 Polly Borland. © Polly Borland
Pat Painting No 1
Pat Painting No 1, 1983 Richard Larter. © Richard Larter/Copyright Agency, 2024
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Bare

Degrees of undress

Previous exhibition, 2015

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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