Madelene Andersson Travel Guide

Brett Whiteley – Nudes

Some 40 paintings, drawings and sculputes make up this exhibition of Australia’s most charismatic artist’s work. The heart of Whiteley’s inspiration was his wife, Wendy, who is the subject of many of these artworks and the subtext of most of the others. Whiteley freely admitted his obsession with sexuality, explaining that ‘I see sensuality, sexuality everywhere – in clouds, in mountains, in fruit. It’s a very, very deep force. I try as overtly as possible to allow that – that force – to key my painting’.