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The Closed Australian Open

Bust of a hotel quarantine worker is attached to a tennis court. They say how they're glad the Australian Open is closed.

Van Nishing

12 February 2021

Van.Nishing (Van T Rudd)’s work has been described as sitting at the intersection between political cartooning and the Melbourne street art tradition. When asked why he chose a hotel quarantine worker for his model, Rudd commented, ‘I was disgusted by the corporate sector of tennis pushing for things to be open while we’re all trying so hard to contain the virus’.