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Latitude
-23.6487639
Longitude
146.6375809
Start Date
1952-01-01
End Date
1952-01-01

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ID
tb9ca8

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DAAO URL
https://www.daao.org.au/bio/luke-roberts
Birth Place
Alpha, Qld, Australia
Biography
Painter, photographer and performance artist, Luke Roberts was born in Alpha, Queensland. He lives in Brisbane. The creator of the Mu Museum of Popular Art, his various wunderkammer have included an early museum of extraordinary objects in 'Perspecta’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1995) and the Mu Embassy and Margaret Mead Memorial Sandpit in the Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, 1996. A large photographic series that included Pope Alice having sex with a well-endowed male angel was exhibited with Peter Bellas then at Irene Sutton’s Mary Place exhibition at Paddington in December 1996. For the 2002 Biennale of Sydney, he presented HDH Pope Alice and Peoples of Lemuria [also known as Mu] present Mu Pavilion – a very kitsch representation of South Sea Island culture – and Pope Alice did an afternoon performance blessing a grove of trees and handing out cards and flowers outside the Mu Pavilion. This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Staff Writer duggim Date written: 1999 Last updated: 2013
Born
b. 1952
Summary
Painter, photographer and performance artist, Luke Roberts was born in Alpha, QLD. He lives in Brisbane. The creator of the Mu Museum of Popular Art, his various wunderkammer have included an early museum of extraordinary objects in 'Australian Perspecta' 1995 and the Mu Embassy and Margaret Mead Memorial Sandpit in the Asia-Pacific Triennial in 1996.
Gender
Male
Died
None listed
Age at death
None listed