Lot 75: Richard Lewer Alphonsus O'Doherty 2006 graphite on

Richard Lewer Alphonsus O'Doherty 2006 graphite on rag museum board 1050mm x 845mm accompanied by original exhibition catalogue; original Oedipus Rex Gallery label affixed verso Exhibited: Get Well Oedipus Rex Gallery, November 2006 Lewer's subject matter gravitates towards what he has stated as an "unhealthy interest in human suffering". His work explores the extremes of behavior and the issues surrounding social construction. Recent bodies of work have included the Get Well series from the residency at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. Comprised of both portraits of the hospitals early carers' the Nuns - taken from the hospitals archives - alongside narrative based drawings that include his reoccurring character Mr Cruel - realised from CCTV footage and his experiences of the institution. Others include the drawings based around the events at Australia's worst serial killing in which a local group took it upon them selves to take care of the local disabled and misfits by chopping them up and disposing the subsequent parts into barrels. ALF