The conservator’s public image is most likely of someone cleaning an old painting with a cotton wool swab in a studio with classical music …

We’re struck by the monumental scale and startling realism of Ron Mueck’s In bed 2005 (illustrated), then — almost voyeuristically — we are compelled to …

Ron Mueck's sculptures are some of the most widely acclaimed and identifiable works in the international contemporary art arena. Often naked and suspended in …

Ron Mueck’s In bed depicts a middle-aged woman who has been carefully composed so that the position of her body and facial expression …

Mueck is widely recognised as among the most significant contemporary artists working in a realist tradition. His sculptures are the result of an extremely time …