Archibald Prize-winning artist dies. In: 9news vom 29. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „In 1998, the magazine Australian Art Collector included him in its list of the country’s top most collectable artists.“ Wendy Frew: Archibald winner Adam Cullen dies aged 47. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 29. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „…Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists…, has died.“ Adam Cullen. In: HSC Visual Art Resources Originaltext: „…made him one of Australia’s most collectible artists of his generation.“ Mark Westall: Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists has died at age 47. In: FAD Magazine vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „ Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists has died at age 47.“ Catharine Lumby: Shocking, hilarious painter of dark side of existence. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 10. August 2012. Originaltext: „[…] he [Adam Cullen] became one of Australia’s most collectable contemporary artists.“
Lindy Kerin: Grunge artist Adam Cullen dead at 47. In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „Adam’s women were never nice, gentle mothers“.
Lindy Kerin: Grunge artist Adam Cullen dead at 47. In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „I just felt compelled to leave the urban and urbane environment of Sydney“.
Katrina Strickland: .Silent departure of an energised but disorderly artist In: The Australian Financial Review vom 31. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „Cullen’s paintings could look as if they’d been whipped off quickly, and they often were, but behind their sense of urgency and energy were dozens of sketches – not so much preparatory sketches for specific works as the outpouring of an artist who honed ideas gleaned through prodigious reading and thinking that way. Sydney artist Cash Brown, who was Cullen’s partner from 2004 to 2006, says he spent more time on the actual works than it might appear. „Some happened immediately, others he would paint over and over until he got them right. But you probably couldn’t work out which were which“, she says. „He would paint them again and again to get them clinically flat, that almost hospitalised, sanitised surface.““
Katrina Strickland: .Silent departure of an energised but disorderly artist In: The Australian Financial Review vom 31. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „Tunnicliffe points to his mid-1990s works, which used language and almost graffiti-like images, as among his best work, along with the ‚more painterly‘ works done around the year he won the Archibald.“
Ashley Crawford: Adam Cullen. When the weird turned Pro. In: artcollector.net.au, 2005. Originaltext: „[H]e was one of the hot names, alongside artists Mikala Dwyer and Hany Armanious when grunge was of the moment in the early 90s.“
Ashley Crawford: Adam Cullen. When the weird turned Pro. In: artcollector.net.au, 2005. Originaltext: „When Cullen is feeling bitter, his painting is acidic. When Cullen feels that the world is a humorous mistake, his painting takes on a devil-may-care silliness, albeit one that is perceptive in its cynicism.“
Ashley Crawford: Adam Cullen. When the weird turned Pro. In: artcollector.net.au, 2005. Originaltext: „I do a lot of work for charities but it’s almost always for environmental issues or animal causes. We’re busy wiping out the environments animals live in and they don’t have that much help.“
Ashley Crawford: Adam Cullen. When the weird turned Pro. In: artcollector.net.au, 2005. Originaltext: „There is never, ever, anything straightforward about tackling Adam Cullen. He can be charming and prickly, beguiling and secretive, enthusiastic and aloof. He can be holed up in his cabin in the mountains, the phone cut off as bushfires circle the compound. Or he can be swanning through the Museum of Contemporary Art, charming the pants off curators and critics alike. I’ve seen him bewilder and charm artist Tim Storrier with his knowledge of firearms and beguile such writers as Catharine Lumby and Ingrid Periz with his witticisms. He happily holds his own in conversation with both the erudite Edmund Capon at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the somewhat more down to earth Mark ‚Chopper‘ Read in a down-at-heels pub in Collingwood.“
John McDonald: Acute Misfortune. In: Artist Profile, Ausgabe 47, 2019. „[…] a family in which he had been treated as a golden boy by loving, indulgent parents.“
An ode to Adam Cullen. In: cashbrown.company vom 23. Januar 2020. Originaltext: „Adam Cullen and I had an interesting relationship. At first we were friends, then lovers, then friends, then acquaintances. At times we were enemies. Adam made some lifestyle choices which at the time were incompatible with mine, so we went our separate ways. We had made collaborative works together, and despite our differences, Adam was very supportive of my work, and I of his. I made several portraits of him from 2004 – 2007, and it is during these years that we had the most contact.“
Archibald Prize-winning artist dies. In: 9news vom 29. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „In 1998, the magazine Australian Art Collector included him in its list of the country’s top most collectable artists.“ Wendy Frew: Archibald winner Adam Cullen dies aged 47. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 29. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „…Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists…, has died.“ Adam Cullen. In: HSC Visual Art Resources Originaltext: „…made him one of Australia’s most collectible artists of his generation.“ Mark Westall: Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists has died at age 47. In: FAD Magazine vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „ Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists has died at age 47.“ Catharine Lumby: Shocking, hilarious painter of dark side of existence. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 10. August 2012. Originaltext: „[…] he [Adam Cullen] became one of Australia’s most collectable contemporary artists.“
Adam Cullen. Murrays Cottage. In: hillendart.com Originaltext: „Cullen’s interest in Hill End goes back to his Great Great Grandfather, who mined in Hill End after emigrating from Ireland. Cullen’s residency will give him the opportunity to research his family roots in the area, as well produce a new body of work for exhibition in Australia and overseas. Adam will use his time in Hill End to investigate the concept of landscape within his ‚human‘ based ‚scenographies‘ and to produce paintings, drawings, videos and installations.“
Archibald Prize-winning artist dies. In: 9news vom 29. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „In 1998, the magazine Australian Art Collector included him in its list of the country’s top most collectable artists.“ Wendy Frew: Archibald winner Adam Cullen dies aged 47. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 29. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „…Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists…, has died.“ Adam Cullen. In: HSC Visual Art Resources Originaltext: „…made him one of Australia’s most collectible artists of his generation.“ Mark Westall: Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists has died at age 47. In: FAD Magazine vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „ Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists has died at age 47.“ Catharine Lumby: Shocking, hilarious painter of dark side of existence. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 10. August 2012. Originaltext: „[…] he [Adam Cullen] became one of Australia’s most collectable contemporary artists.“
In Memoriam: Australian ‚grunge‘ artist Adam Cullen, 47. In: Auction Central News vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „His style had, at times, been called simplistic, crude, adolescent or puerile, although he also had been voted one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists.“
Tributes flow for Archibald winner Adam Cullen who has died at age 47. In: news.com.au vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „He lived quite an extreme life. […] The extremity of his practice wasn’t a put-on, he lived the life he depicted. The fractured men in his paintings are as much a self-portrait as they were depictions of what was wrong in society.“
Adam Cullen. Lets’s get lost - Anything I say or do - Australian Saints. In: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2008, S. 5. Originaltext: „I was in Spain with my parents, in the Prado, when I was nine and a half, and apparently I was in awe of this image. It was called "Saturn devouring his children". It was a small work by Goya, and he was there chewing on this infant’s head. I was overtaken with as much emotion as a nine and a half year old person can endure and/or fathom. I was there for almost an hour staring at this thing, and it’s stuck with me until now… It’s incredible how uplifting and inspiring artworks can be, even if they’re repulsive, or demonic or black – they still inspire you.“
Adam Cullen. Lets’s get lost - Anything I say or do - Australian Saints. In: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2008, S. 5. Originaltext: „Cullen recalls visiting his cousins that lived on a property in the bush. He remembers them lassoing a kangaroo with the help of some kelpie dogs, and while they held the animal down, the cousins cut off the kangaroo’s tail with a chain-saw while it was still alive. The roo hobbles horribly, trying to balance without a tail. This happened after Cullen saw the Goya Disaster series in the Prado with his parents.“
Adam Cullen. Lets’s get lost - Anything I say or do - Australian Saints. In: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2008, S. 5. Originaltext: „Cullen’s work has been described as revolting and yet compelling, in much the same way as a car accident, a fight in a pub or the endless TV replays of an injury on the sporting field. “
Brown beschrieb Cullen als „stark wie ein Ochse“, der „aber furchtbar unter Alkoholismus litt“. Sie tat sich schwer zu verstehen, „wie aus dem in liebevoller Umgebung aufgewachsenen Jungen als Erwachsener eine derart gequälte Seele werden konnte.“ Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „Brown described him as being ‚strong as an ox‘ but that he suffered dreadfully from alcoholism. She struggled to understand how a child who grew up in a loving environment could become so tortured as an adult.“
Carolynne Skinner vom Oz Arts Magazine hatte hierzu diesen Gedanken: „Obwohl Cullens Verteidiger ausführte, dass er seine Waffen zur Schaffung von Kunstwerken benutzt habe, ist es schwer vorstellbar, wie ein Taser zu diesem Zweck eingesetzt werden könnte. Ich vermute, dass er vielleicht für den Gebrauch an Tieren gedacht war.“ Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „Although the charge against Cullen was defended on the basis that he used his guns to create artworks, it is difficult to see how a Tazer [sic!] might be used for this purpose. The thought lingers that it may have been to use on animals.“
Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „Cullen was known to sit for hours beside the fire making figures out of plasticine, strange grotesque sculptures of animals, skulls, figures and imaginary monsters which Archer sent away for casting in bronze. A couple of these Archer also had enlarged into impressive metre long boars […].“
Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „I am not alone in remarking that the little bronze sculptures which were so effortlessly produced in plasticine, are up with the best of his art.“
Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „While describing Anita’s rape and murder as ‚a disgusting crime‘ Cullen also expressed sympathy for the murderers [the Murphy brothers].“
Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „Winning the Archibald changed my whole life — my whole aspectual psyche. It enlarged my audience. I was no longer underground, non-establishment. All of a sudden I was part of the art world… the bourgeois.“
Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „Adjoining neighbour Leonie Lyall […] observed [him] shooting birds in the garden and clubbing a fox to death […].“
Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „He set traps for animals, calling them ‘soft’ traps, enabling him then to kill the animals himself. There were quantities of dead animals, whole bodies, skins and various parts scattered throughout the cottage. In recent years the atmosphere of the house had become so offensive that Cullen refused to allow anyone inside.“
Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „Although the charge against Cullen was defended on the basis that he used his guns to create artworks, it is difficult to see how a Tazer [sic!] might be used for this purpose. The thought lingers that it may have been to use on animals.“
Carolynne Skinner: Adam Cullen Artist 1965–2012. Adam we hardly knew you. In: Oz Arts Magazine, 2013. Originaltext: „Like Jackson Pollock, he discovered a new, exciting way to put paint on paper and canvas and did it better than anyone else. Like Pollock, he drove fast, he drove drunk. He not only loved life, he squeezed the life out of life.“
Erik Jensen: Adam Cullen’s secret desires. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 11. September 2014. Originaltext: „At school, Adam liked mixing with the strong boys.“
Catharine Lumby: Artist was drawn to darker side of human existence. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 31. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „Art critic and friend Andrew Frost recalls […] that Cullen had to sleep with his leg out the window because of the smell and abandon the performance when the bus driver refused to let him on.“
Ashley Crawford: Brush with controversy and creative brilliance. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 31. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „After that episode he wore a bald taxidermied cat which he claimed to have killed and skinned.“
Catharine Lumby: Artist was drawn to darker side of human existence. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 31. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „He never subscribed to convoluted, abstract theories about the meaning of art. He would always say that art just needs to hold your attention. And in the most compelling way, that’s exactly what the best of his work does.“
Archibald Prize-winning artist dies. In: 9news vom 29. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „In 1998, the magazine Australian Art Collector included him in its list of the country’s top most collectable artists.“ Wendy Frew: Archibald winner Adam Cullen dies aged 47. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 29. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „…Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists…, has died.“ Adam Cullen. In: HSC Visual Art Resources Originaltext: „…made him one of Australia’s most collectible artists of his generation.“ Mark Westall: Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists has died at age 47. In: FAD Magazine vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „ Adam Cullen, one of Australia’s most collectible contemporary artists has died at age 47.“ Catharine Lumby: Shocking, hilarious painter of dark side of existence. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 10. August 2012. Originaltext: „[…] he [Adam Cullen] became one of Australia’s most collectable contemporary artists.“
Joyce Morgan: Suspended jail sentence for award-winning artist. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 11. November 2011. Originaltext: „Magistrate Lee Gilmour said Cullen was an intelligent, artistic man. ‚But there are things causing you pain mentally that you have not dealt with and you need to‘, she said.“
Catharine Lumby: Artist was drawn to darker side of human existence. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 31. Juli 2012. […] critics, who saw Cullen as nothing more than an attention-seeking enfant terrible whose major project lay in shocking the middle classes.
Catharine Lumby: Artist was drawn to darker side of human existence. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 31. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „After his adored mother Carmel died in 2010, his father Kevin continued to love and support his son through his illnesses. His family was a large part of his life and he often expressed gratitude for having parents who encouraged his talent from a young age.“
Wendy Frew: Archibald winner and ‚grunge‘ painter Adam Cullen dead at 47. In: Sydney Morning Herald vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „Adam was the real deal. Even in the grips of a consuming illness, on a good day, he was one of the very best contemporary artists in Australia. Adam was astonishingly kind and the many hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in paintings he donated to charity attest to his endless giving.“
Chopper unleashes a grim tale. In: The Age vom 20. Mai 2002. Originaltext: [T]he result is not for the faint-hearted. A children’s book it almost certainly isn’t. A fable, in the tradition of dark and Gothic storytelling, it certainly is.
Andrew Frost: Vale Adam Cullen 1965-2012. In: theartlife.com.au vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „This was in the context of a time when a punk kid wore the skin and stuffed head of his cat attached to his leather jacket to painting classes.“
Andrew Frost: Vale Adam Cullen 1965-2012. In: theartlife.com.au vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „There was always the hope that he would pull out of the pattern of addiction, sickness and all the false promises of rehab, and pull himself together.“
Andrew Frost: Vale Adam Cullen 1965-2012. In: theartlife.com.au vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „In the early 1990s Adam Cullen appeared in the documentary Moral Fiction. In it, Adam expanded on his personal philosophy concluding with the statement ‚I want my death back‘. From Adam’s perspective the world deprives us of our essential liberties – the freedom to live as we choose to live and the ability to choose the time and manner of our own deaths. It was a line of thinking that Adam held pretty much for the entire time I knew him.“
Cullen hatte später auch sein Studio in Annandale. Kit Messham-Muir: Review: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen. In: The Conversation vom 15. September 2014. Originaltext: „[I]n the course of my investigations visited him in his studio in Annandale a number of times[…].“
Erik Jensen schrieb: „Die Leute liebten Adam. Es war seine Stimme, an die sie sich zumeist erinnerten, und dann seine Augen.“ Kit Messham-Muir: Review: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen. In: The Conversation vom 15. September 2014. Originaltext: „Jensen puts it: ‚People loved Adam. It was his voice they remembered most, and then his eyes.‘“
Academics remember grunge artist Adam Cullen. In: The Conversation vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „I think, though, his finest hour was in a performance piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005. The context was the climate of government-inspired paranoia about sedition and proposed restrictions on free speech.“
Academics remember grunge artist Adam Cullen. In: The Conversation vom 30. Juli 2012. Originaltext: „… his life had become a performance, sometimes distanced from others’ realities.“
Erik Jensen: Adam Cullen shot me in the leg and threw me from a motorbike – and it wrecked me when he died. In: The Guardian vom 15. September 2014. Originaltext: „Early on, he admitted the difficulties he had loving his mother, how he rejected the richness of her breast milk and felt this formed some glib epigraph to the relationship that followed. ‚I just never took to the love of a mother‘, he said. ‚I couldn’t stomach it.‘“
Transcript: Erik Jensen in conversation with Ramona Koval. In: The Monthly, 2015. Originaltext 1: „[…] in the drugs chapter, for instance, as we’re travelling through drug deals and he’s shooting up in his dealer’s front room while a toddler’s crying in front of TV and so on, I record those scenes, I think, with detail but I don’t think I judge them.“ Originaltext 2: Charles Bukowski in Barfly: „Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.“ Originaltext 3: „[…] ‚Endurance is more important than truth‘. But what does it even mean? EJ: To Adam’s mind, it was an excuse for everything.“
Green Turtle Productions, Marcus Graham: Between Two Worlds (Trailer) auf Vimeo, 2019, 3:11 min. Originaltext: „I chose […] a life of […] existential hillbilly-ing.“
Auszug aus Erik Jensens Buch Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen (Memento vom 28. Juni 2021 im Internet Archive) anlässlich des Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2015. Wheeler Centre, 2015. Originaltext: „I used to shoot the f*cking speed and it was awful. […] That shit was toxic, it was really f*cking toxic.“
