Luke Roberts b. 1952

Also known as Her Divine Holiness Pope Alice
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
painter, photographer and performance artist, 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
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painter, photographer and performance artist, 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 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 South Sea Island culture representation (see cover of eyeline 49, Spring 2002) – and Pope Alice did an afternoon performance blessing a grove of trees and handing out cards and flowers outside the Mu Pavilion (colour ill. eyeline Spring 2002,.28).

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1999
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  • Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at)
  • Irene Sutton's Mary Place exhibition (exhibited at)
  • The Second Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Wunderkammer/Kunstkammera: an installation by Luke Roberts (exhibited at)
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  • Clutch (exhibited at)
  • All Souls' Day: Luke Roberts, Urszula Szulakowski (exhibited at)
  • Archibald Prize (exhibited at)
  • Biennale of Sydney (exhibited at)
  • Irene Sutton's Mary Place exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Asia-Pacific Triennial (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • Wunderkammer/Kunstkammera: an installation by Luke Roberts (exhibited at)
  • Luke Roberts (exhibited at)
  • Clutch (exhibited at)
  • All Souls' Day: Luke Roberts, Urszula Szulakowski (exhibited at)
  • Archibald Prize (exhibited at)
  • Archibald Prize (exhibited at)