'To celebrate the final weekend of the UK's Wool Week, a flock of Australian/English Bowmont Merino sheep made a special appearance in the Royal Academy's courtyard over the weekend.'
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And why not? Robert Hughes, in 1970, connected agriculture and Australian art, so its been done before . . .
‘An ebullient bourgeois society which loves culture as a
badge, but lacks discrimination, has developed a desire for homogenous and
self-contained – that is, purely Australian – art. It gets what it wants; but
to speak of an Australian cultural explosion, for no reason but that a lot of
Australians are painting, is meaningless. Australia also has a knitting
explosion and a cooking explosion, equally to be accounted for in terms of the
abundance of Australian wool and steak.’ ( Hughes, The Art
of Australia, Penguin Books, 1970, p315)
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