William Dobell

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🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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What does it take for a painting to ruin a friendship, initiate a court case, and change the Australian art world forever? Tune in to this episode on the Australian artist William Dobell and his controversial win of the 1943 Archibald Prize for portraiture to find out! (Image: William Dobell, Self Portrait, 1932.)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:03.8	and throughout time.
0:04.7	My name is Eli.
0:05.8	I'm Alice.
0:06.7	Today's episode is on the Australian artist William Dobell and his controversial win of the
0:10.9	1983 Archibald Prize for Portraiture.
0:24.6	Before we start, we have some content warnings for this episode.
0:30.2	We're going to mention that World War II happened, and there's also mentions that Australia was homophobic in the 20th century, but that's it.
0:32.8	Oh, chill.
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1:02.8	I introduced him as William DeBelle, but he was known throughout his life as Bill, so we're
1:07.2	actually going to call him Bill for this whole episode.
1:09.2	Okay.
1:09.7	Bill was born on the 25th of September 1889 in Newcastle, New South Wales, which is a lot
1:15.4	closer to us than most of the locations we talk about, to a relatively comfortable working
1:20.8	class family of six kids.
1:22.4	He drew madly from childhood, as he later described it.
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