Provocative on Purpose: One Artist’s 40-Year Celebration of Queer Desire

“LGBTQ+ people need to see themselves represented”

Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier
Prism & Pen
Published in
6 min readAug 9, 2023

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Stood beside Alan Muller’s 1981 painting “Wet Dream” at the Art Gallery of Western Australia [Image courtesy of the author]

Moments of discovery are usually the result of two things. The first is general word-of-mouth: recommendations from a friend, the things you need to see, to go to, to listen to.

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Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier
Prism & Pen

Gay writer who will always talk to strangers // Australian, 27 // Keith Haring & classical music // https://www.clippings.me/liam_hrl_96