Is your artwork genuine and who can you trust to advise you?
A recent court case centred around three paintings in the style of Brett Whiteley has potentially serious consequences for the Australian art market.
25 May 2016 12:00
Felicity Strong
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Visual Arts
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For the best part of four weeks, two paintings in the style of the late Sydney artist Brett Whiteley sat in courtroom three of the Victorian Supreme Court. The paintings, Big Blue Lavender Bay and Orange Lavender Bay, were part of Australia’s largest art forgery criminal trial.
Ms. Felicity Strong is a PhD candidate in her final year of research at the University of Melbourne. She has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Art History and completed the Masters of Art Curatorship in 2011. She has worked in commercial galleries in Melbourne and London and spent two years on the board of Blindside Artist Run Initiative. She has curated shows at Brunswick Street Gallery, Blindside ARI and Raglan Street Gallery and volunteered at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Queensland Art Gallery. Her PhD research is focused on discovering the extent to which perceptions of art forgery are influenced by depictions in cultural context, such as in literature, on screen and within an art museum environment.
