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Australia’s Top 30 most popular artists

Good news: Australians are interested in contemporary local visual artists and they want boundary-pushers more than ram-shearers.

31 Jul 2014 12:00

Tara Watson

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Brett Whiteley, The Blossom Tree

An ArtsHub analysis of Australian online searches has measured which artists constitute click bait, both the most popular international artists of all time and the most sought-after Australians.

On the Australian ranking, Brett Whitley comes in Number One – a testament to the only Australian artist with his own public gallery, the Brett Whiteley Studio which is part of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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