Art for Mart's Sake
Invitation to Exhibition opening. Collection: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. On the evening of Wednesday, 8 December 1965, an exhibition opened at the Clune Galleries, 59 Macleay Street, Sydney. It was the first solo showing of works by Martin Sharp, a local, 23 year old artist, best known for his association since 1962 with the controversial magazine OZ , his topical cartoons for The Bulletin , Sydney Morning Herald and the University of New South Wales student newspaper Tharunka, and his work in theatre set design. The show was colourful and consisted mostly of modern Pop Art pieces - painting, collage, prints and sculpture. Following the Clune Gallery exhibition, Sharp spent a number of years resident in London (July 1966 - January 1969), before returning to the former Clune Gallery early in 1970 to set up the famous Yellow House multimedia art space. According to a local newspaper report, the 1965 exhibition featured 'paintings, collage assemblages, cartoons etc.' and ...