This 'is a series of surreal paintings using Ian Roberts, Australia's great rugby star who recently announced his homosexuality publicly, as the single subject. The paintings are very stylized and constructed with deliberate, posed figure studies of a barely clad Roberts, emotionally charged through their seriousness and starkness'.

'Watson places Roberts in obviously staged studio settings,'... 'all against backdrops of painted skies and the figure artificially lit with a single spotlight, to isolate Roberts from his more commonly associated environment. This enables the athletic hero to act as an icon for our time'.

Darrel Couturier
Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles - 4.6.96

Set III
Oil on board
122 x 92 cm / 4' x 3'
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Set VII
Oil on board
122 x 92 cm / 4' x 3'
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Set IX
Oil on board
122 x 92 cm / 4' x 3'
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Set X
Oil on board
100 x 100 cm / 3'3" x 3'3"
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Set V
Oil on board
122 x 92 cm / 4' x 3'
Provenance: Private Collection,
Melbourne 1995 - 2009
Collection, The Artist
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