Gender:
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2024 shortlisted Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for writing about Rafael Bonachela and the Sydney Dance Company.
- 2023 winner Quill Awards — Keith Dunstan Quill for Commentary for 'The Voice editorials', Saturday Paper.
- 2010 winner Walkley Award — Young Australian Journalist Award — Print News
Awards for Works
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form
y
Acute Misfortune
( dir. Tom Wright
)
Australia
:
Plot Media
Blackheath Film
Arenamedia Pty Ltd
,
2018
12300361
2018
single work
film/TV
'When 19-year-old wunderkind journalist Erik Jensen (now editor of The Saturday Paper) was invited by bad-boy Australian painter Adam Cullen to write his biography, Jensen (Toby Wallace, Romper Stomper) jumped at the chance. Despite a turbulent relationship, the two formed a unique bond that lasted until Cullen’s death in 2012 aged just 46.'
Source: Melbourne International Film Festival, 2018.
- 2020 nominated AFCA Film Awards — Best Director
- 2020 shortlisted AWGIE Awards — Film Award — Adaptation
- 2019 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Screenplay - Original or Adapted
- 2019 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Indie Film
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y
Acute Misfortune : The Life and Death of Adam Cullen
Melbourne
:
Black Inc.
,
2014
7880297
2014
single work
biography
'An unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.
'In 2008 the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography.
'What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, in part to see how committed he was to the book. At another, he threw Jensen from a speeding motorbike. The book contract Cullen used to convince Jensen to stay with him never existed.
'Acute Misfortune is a riveting account of the life and death of one of Australia's most celebrated artists, the man behind the Archibald Prize-winning portrait of David Wenham. Jensen follows Cullen through drug deals and periods of deep self-reflection, onwards into his court appearance for weapons possession and finally his death in 2012 at the age of forty-six. The story is by turns tender and horrifying: a spare tale of art, sex, drugs and childhood, told at close quarters and without judgement.' (Publication summary)
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