Martin Sharp
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and his friends, Sydney might have lost an important part of its character.
Tiny Tim
Besides Van Gogh, Tiny Tim has been one of Sharp’s strongest inspirations since the 1970s.
“Tim’s appropriation of song is very much like my appropriation of images. We are both collagists taking the elements of different epochs and mixing them to discover new relationships.”
Sharp’s appreciation of Tiny Tim manifested itself in many ways, including record production, costume design. He created a five-metre painting now hanging in Macquarie University, painted during the mid seventies with Tim Lewis. His Tiny Tim Opera House concert poster is one of his most memorable and collectible images.
His cherished Tiny Tim film project Street Of Dreams is described in the painting “Film Script”. He laboured for over a decade on this film and it almost forced him to sell
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