abc.net.au/news/wheatbelt-wa-council-to-retain-rolf-harris-painting/101685100When should the art be separated from the artist? This is the question a local government in Western Australia's Wheatbelt grappled with this week when it voted against selling the painting it was gifted by convicted child sex offender Rolf Harris.
Bundaberg Council removed a painting of Uluru by Rolf Harris from the foyer of the Moncrieff Theatre.Community feedback was subsequently sought on what should be done with the artwork, with about half of the 75 people who responded saying they wanted to keep the painting in a prominent area. "We took the view as a council collective that it is the property of the community and given it was such an equal split, we decided we shouldn’t sell it and we should retain for the future generations," he said.
The City of Greater Geraldton has one artwork by Harris in storage at Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, but Mayor Shane Van Styn said there were no plans for it to be moved, displayed or sold.In 2015, Harris was stripped of honours awarded to him by Queen Elizabeth II after his painting of the late monarch was unveiled in 2005.
Burn it!
Sell it to Mike Carlton.
We learn how to differentiate between the artist and the art. They aren't the same thing.
Nothing just move on.
Mosques would be appropriate venues
Which sex offender Today or 500yrs back Will the painting gain monetary value Hand it down to your next of kin etc.. Paintin may gain enough value to be sold to save kins health...Keep it
I used to visit my Nanna and she had a record player and one Rolf Harris record. It was amazing. I knew most fo the songs off by heart. Now I don't want to play it, it's like I have to represe a part of my childhood. What about Michael Jackson? Same thing though.
What? No activists throwing soup on it? Gluing themselves to them, protesting against paodophilia? Wonder why...
It depends of you want to earn money off of the back of victimisation and suffering ... it will sell well in some circles ... 8d be burning it ...
Sell it, offer the $ to the victims, if they do not accept it, give it to an institution which looks after victims.
Don’t store it so that supporters of a convicted pedophile can rewrite history. Don’t sell it so the “profits” gained can re-enforce the trauma he caused his victims. Burn it as you should if he’d abused someone in your family, someone you love, care for & would stand up for.
Sell it for a good price?
I hope Fred still tans his hide when he’s dead …
Burn it
Burn it
Burn it.
Look at it.
Ask the staff as ABC has a few in the cupboard
Only way Burn 🔥 them
Chucked to the bin or put it in his grave .
He’s was a very good artist. Many people are unaware of his off TV works. He’s also a convicted sex offender. As usual, this will become about money, not art. Sell them and donate the money to charity.
His paintings were shit anyway. Burn them all.
burn it , if keep they support a paedophile
Give it to the catholic church to put up on the walls of the Vatican with all the others
Burn it
Donate it to a gallery or museum. I have no issue with art done by awful people being displayed with the proper context given. Don't sell it to the highest bidder. Private ownership of fine art is horrible and should be banned
Put it up for auction and give the proceeds to a charity supporting victims of child predation.
Canberra parliament can buy and hang them .. to remind that there is no excuse rehab for pedos
What do you do with artwork painted by a non-convicted sex offender? Eric Gill? Pablo Picasso? Gaugin? Or a murderer like Caravaggio?
Sell it and give the money directly to an appropriate children's charity
Whatever you want to do with it? Hang it on a wall, burn it, hide it in a cupboard. Whatever. It won't matter at all after a bit of time has passed
You can throw Michelangelo's works in the bin then too.
Burn it. That's what I, personally, would do with any art I owned. Up to others what they do.
Donate it to the Catholic Church!
Burn it
Get rid of it
It’s stock price plummets like his has
You were willing to cover up potential paedophilia in the name of politics.
Burn it
Use it as fuel for your fire.
Bonfire, and make him light it.
Paint over it?
Keep it with your Michael Jackson CDs
Have you seen what people paid for Hunter Biden’s paintings?
Burn it.🔥
Burn it 🔥
People pay big money for art by high profile criminals.
Happily keep it
Hang it! 🥁
The ABC thinks we should judge our major art, literary, music & academic prizes based on the identity of the entrants & their ‘message’.
You separate the art from the artist and view it on its merits.
The art work isn't going to touch anyone. Movies made by these horrible type of people are still out there. Same thing.
Perhaps we should tare down all the Catholic Churches as well.
Donate to the hospital
Burn it!
Ask Michael Jackson.
Bin it 🚮
Which sex offender artist are we talking about here … there’s so many to pick from
Give it to the church
Don’t destroy the artworks. Value them on artistic merit alone. ( Admittedly a subjective matter.) If he had built a hospital would you not keep it? Many works produced in the past by people of questionable morals.
Better start clearing out your gallery! Don't look to closely at Picasso, Dali, Gaugin, Caravaggio or Dahl! 🤣🤣🤣
Given Rolf isn't great, toss it all. For the other abusers: Friend, Picasso etc, minimise their exposure & stop minimising what they did with excuses.
Donate it to the democratic party
Burn it
Take the loss. Burn it. Sometimes we don't get compensation for a loss - it's just a loss... I'd honestly burn anything I had that came from a child predator 🤮 I'd use my coal bbq and literally burn it 🔥
Depends if it's good or not.
Interesting Trivia: the paintings didn't hang themselves !!
Burn it
Burn it
Return to sender
Who is the target audience of this article?
Didn't know ABC were artists! BS fake news artists my bad
Donate it to an Art School or Uni that may want to study it. Otherwise discard it.
burn it.
Auction the painting and give the proceeds to his victims
Frisbee it into a fire
I actually like his paintings and had one in our office. He may have been flawed but he was still a good artist
Sell it
Just throw it out, it's poor quality 'art' anyway
Depends on why you bought it in the first place. If you bought it because you like the art, you leave it where it is and continue to appreciate it. If you just bought it for the cache cos you’re pretentious, you hide it away and pretend it didn’t happen
Give it to balenciaga they'll love it
Burn it?
make copies and hung them on the walls of Australian bo*dels!
Simple, don't profit from it. If you have one, give any benefits in doing so to helping children. Imagine the young creative talents lost or poisoned because of his actions
Burn it.
Sell it to Bill Gates or Bill Clinton...They wine and dine with them.
Doanld Friend ring any bells?
Burn it..
You burn it and piss on the ashes, charge tickets for the show, money goes to victim(s) and family
Burn it
Does the ABC still play Michael Jackson, or anything by The Who, or any music featuring Waddy Wachtel
ask the Dems unironically
Keep it. The painting has merit and should appreciated for what it is, divorced from the failings of the artist.
Rolf's paintings were rubbish. His panting of Queen Liz made her look like a rat eating cheese. When Harris dies, he'll join his mate Jimmy Savile in the dustbin of history as a sexual predator
In the case of Donald Friend, apparently you get the Who's Who of the Australian art scene to wax poetic about how tenderly he loved all the Balinese boys he raped.
They usually put it out the front of the BBC or in the halls of the ABC.
Send it back to his family.
Burn it
Hang it in ABC staff canteen
Defer your decision .. everyone does it. Then it's not your problem.
Leave it in the jail
You keep it as it’s art, we haven’t discarded the knowledge that came from nazi or Japanese medical experiments during WWII. I can’t go back and unlaugh at the Cosby show!
I won't stop playing the wobble board just because Rolf is a nonce.
Throw it in the bin. And tbh, Rolf's works always had that sketch-half done look about them.
What happened to Rolf’s painting of the queen?
Hang it
Shred it!
Burn it.
You burn it.
Burn it.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: theage - 🏆 8. / 77 Read more »
Source: GuardianAus - 🏆 1. / 98 Read more »
Source: GuardianAus - 🏆 1. / 98 Read more »
Source: FinancialReview - 🏆 2. / 90 Read more »
Source: abcnews - 🏆 5. / 83 Read more »
Source: FinancialReview - 🏆 2. / 90 Read more »