Rodney Pople
{{Short description|Australian visual artist (born 1952)}}
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Rodney Pople (born 6 September 1952) is an Australian visual artist.
Biography
Pople was born on 6 September 1952, in Launceston.{{cite web|url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/artist/1614|title=Collection – Artists – Rodney Pople|publisher=National Gallery of Victoria|accessdate=10 July 2014}} His works have been the cause of some controversy.{{cite news|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/rodney-pople-one-of-australias-most-controversial-artists/story-e6frewz0-1226397141160|title=Rodney Pople: One of Australia's most controversial artists|last=Fortescue|first=Elizabeth|date=15 June 2012|work=The Daily Telegraph|publisher=News Corp Australia|accessdate=10 July 2014}} Pople studied photography in Tasmania, and sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, London.{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/altared-state-20140623-3an2w.html|title=Altared state|date=28 June 2014|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media|accessdate=10 July 2014}} He teaches at the National Art School in Sydney.
In 2008, Pople won the Sir John Sulman Prize with a work entitled Stage Fright.{{cite web|url=http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/sulman/2008/28695/|title=Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 2008 – Rodney Pople – Stage Fright|publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales|accessdate=10 July 2014}} In 2010, works in an exhibition entitled "Bellini 21c" were the focus of protests.{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/innocents-protest-against-art-show/story-e6frg8n6-1225923003645|title='Innocents' protest against art show |last=Boland|first=Michaela|date=15 September 2010|work=The Australian|publisher=News Corp Australia|accessdate=10 July 2014}} The works included images of Bellini's San Zaccaria Altarpiece overlaid with pornography.
Pople won the Glover Prize for landscape painting in March 2012 with a work that included the figure of Martin Bryant, the convicted perpetrator of the Port Arthur Massacre in the foreground of the landscape of Port Arthur.{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3451501.htm|title=Art or exploitation of grief?|last=Ogilvie |first=Felicity|date=12 March 2012|work=PM|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=10 July 2014}} Later in that year, a work entitled "Degas's Night" which included Degas' sculpture Little Dancer of Fourteen Years on the background of red-light district in Darlinghurst, New South Wales was also the cause of controversy.
He was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2014 and 2015.{{Cn|date=June 2025}}