Detail of Michael Cook, ‘Majority Rule (Senate)’ #2014-0151; supplied
Australia has seen several recent cases where an artist has faced the prickly side of the law.
Most famous in recent years was Bill Henson’s photograph of a young girl seized from the Sydney gallery Roslyn Oxley9 in 2008. Polixeni Papapetrou faced a legal battle over a photograph of her daughter on the cover of Art Month Australia magazine (2003), while Melbourne artist Paul Yore’s installation at Linden Centre for Contemporary Art (2013), was deemed too explicit, and placed him in front of the courts.
