The founder of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) David Walsh received an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for creating the museum of sex and death which has become one of Australia’s top tourist attractions and propelled Hobart onto the national arts agenda.
Walsh, a professional gambler who had a long-running public dispute with the ATO, is known as an iconoclast whose selection of art is renowned for its willingness to expose subjects usually left in the bedroom or the bathroom.
