Artists and Their Legacies

Katrina Strickland is the editor of Good Weekend magazine. She is the author of Affairs of the Heart: Love, Loss and Power in the Art World. 

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Wendy Whiteley OAM is one of Australia's most admired cultural personalities. A designer, curator, guerilla gardener and artist, she oversees the Brett Whiteley estate and the Brett Whiteley studio in Sydney. She is also well known for transforming an unruly mess of weeds out the front of her Lavender Bay home into a beloved Sydney landmark. Now known as Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden, this stunning living artwork, an oasis on the edge of Sydney Harbour, was Wendy's gift from Wendy to the city around her. She lived in London, New York and Fiji throughout the 1960s with her then husband, Brett Whiteley, before returning to Sydney at the end of the decade with their daughter Arkie and settling in Lavender Bay, where she still lives today. 

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Artists and Their Legacies

Ashleigh Wilson is a journalist who worked at The Australian for two decades, including as arts editor. His series on unethical behaviour in the Aboriginal art industry won a Walkley Award and led to a senate inquiry. He is the author of Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing and On Artists. His new book is A Year with Wendy Whiteley.

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