Adam Cullen merges social satire with technicolour excess. An ‘enfant terrible’ of the art world, he launched onto the Australian art scene by chaining a pig’s head to his ankle for two weeks. This punk stunt was followed by a career spent painting tough, uncompromising and challenging subjects, captured with a pop art twist.

In ‘Kelly Hunter’, Cullen extracts a figure from Australian history. A policeman on the hunt for bushranger Ned Kelly sits on his horse, dripping against a backdrop saturated in lilac. Abstracted into contemporary art, the force that opposed Kelly becomes a symbol of Cullen’s lexicon.

Exploring masculinity, crime and animalism, Cullen’s work is imbued with an unexpected vulnerability. In his lifetime, he was a multi-time Archibald Prize finalist, honoured with a 2008 retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and an Art Hotel in Prahran, cementing him as one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists.

This hand-signed artist proof comes with a Letter of Provenance and will invigorate collectors of pop and contemporary art or those seeking an edge for their space.

Adam CULLEN (1965 - 2012)
'Kelly Hunter' 2010
Archival pigment on paper
Image Size: 100 x 100 cm 
Edition: AP (Artist Proof)
Signed: Signed in margin
Comes with a Letter of Provenance

Condition: Excellent

(c) Adam Cullen / Copyright Agency