Martin Sharp
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enormous laughing face at the entrance. This long commission had all the ingredients of Pop Artostalgia, huge sculptures, powerful images, wonderful paintings by Arthur Barton along with bright colours and lightsnd was utterly appropriate given Sharp’s deep grounding in this era of Australian graphic art (e.g. Fatty Finn).
In 1978, he and fellow artist/designer Richard Liney (who had participated in the reconstruction of Luna Park, also an avid collector of memorabilia), loaned their combined collection of hundreds of fairground, circus, Luna Park and sideshow artefacts to the Art Gallery of NSW to coincide with the Festival of Sydney.
Just a year later, a fire in the Luna Park Ghost Train tragically claimed seven lives, and destroyed any chance of renewal for the restored Park. Sharp’s work on the Face was ruined, and the park’s theme “Just for Fun” lost its
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