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“Henson’s images are carefully choreographed moments of suspenseful
drama, veritable symphonies of decadence and beauty, of squalor and
opulence, of mysterious darkness and ominous light, of quiet obsession
and subversive ecstasy,” wrote Edmund Capon of Bill Henson’s work,
during his role as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This
is about the man behind all of that majesty. Candide McDonald reports.