Brett Whiteley 'Lavender Bay Wharf' animals This work is a play

This work is a play on Marcel Duchamp’s famous work ‘L

this Jenny roams Melbourne’s suburb of St Kilda

Red dirt shifts into yellow light before giving way to a blue sky

In sparing lines

'Girl with Bird' 1965

Brett Whiteley 'Lavender Bay Wharf' animals This work is a playOne of Australias most iconic artists, Brett Whiteley was deeply preoccupied with the relationship between self and place, often questioning the extent to which environment shapes identity. This inquiry is powerfully expressed in his depictions of Lavender Bay, the small Sydney suburb that housed his studio and home, where landscape becomes inseparable from lived experience. In 'Lavender Bay Wharf', this sense of intimacy is intricately conveyed.