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Bill Henson : XLVI esposizione internazionale d'arte la biennale di Venezia 1995 : Australian pavilion 11 June-15 October 1995.
Twelve Australian photo artists
The education kits below (in pdf format) highlight key works, ideas and themes from the Bill Henson Exhibition held at the Art Gallery of NSW & National Gallery of Victoria in 2005. Click here to see a selection of images of Henson's works at the NSW Gallery website.
Education resources to support the travelling exhibition.
NSW Art Gallery. Celebrity talk. Bill Henson in association with Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, 9 September 2009.
26 minutes.
Renowned photographer Bill Henson talks to musician and festival director Paul Grabowsky about his influences and how he creates his extraordinary images.
Presented by Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia in association with the 2012 Adelaide Festival.
From The ABC Splash website.
Search this database to find newspaper articles and magazine articles about Bill Henson.
On 22 May 2008, the opening night of Henson's 2007-2008 exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Paddington, Sydney, was cancelled.
Hetty Johnston, a child protection campaigner, had lodged a complaint with the New South Wales police about the exhibition, which was to include images of naked adolescents. Henson was to be charged with 'publishing an indecent article'. Police raids at other galleries followed and his works were seized. He was not charged but the issue played out in the media for several months and generated much debate about art and censorship.
The content in the boxes below relate to this debate.
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The Echo Online database includes a comprehensive debate of the issues involved: including background information and links to websites and newpaper articles from 2008. A videoclip from the ABC's 7.30 Report is also included. |
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The Henson case by In June 2008 the Museum of Contemporary Art held a two hour discussion regarding the art work of Bill Henson. These are the introductory comments by Julian Burnside QC.
Extract from the Bill Henson Art Censorship Debate in 2008 Clive Hamilton and David Marr discuss points of difference regarding matters of censorship. Clive in his prepared speech noted :"There is no censorship worth noting in Australia" and then raises the issue of the censorship laws in this country, but although he considers that Bill Henson's images weren't pornographic he decries the fact they were mailed out and posted on the Internet. David Marr points out that the censorship system which Clive acknowledges exists rated them PG which means that anyone can view them whatever the medium.
This short extract is taken from the 2 hour Art Censorship debate 12th June 2008:-
Art Censorship: The Bigger Picture (Australian Broadcasting Corporation )
