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Robert Rooney, ‘Maria Kozic and Phillip Brophy 1’, 1981, digital photographic print from original 35 mm slide, 20 x 30.5 cm. Copyright Robert Rooney. Courtesy the artist and Tolarno Galleries.

Robert Rooney, ‘Portrait photographs 1978–1987’, Tolarno Galleries, 11 September–11 October 2014

Over a period of 107 consecutive days, from December 1972 to March 1973, Robert Rooney photographed the clothes he wore. Each black and white image is uniform, a latent pun in keeping Rooney’s predilection for wry linguistic play. The artist’s garments are neatly folded and stacked, underwear on top, outer wear at the bottom, as […]

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