AustLit

'As it is totally unregulated, fine art can be a serious business for international money launderers. But what happens when the art in question is produced by an unstable, drug-addled painter prone to saying the wrong thing to the maximum number of people? Enter Oli Darling, a “queer artist from the country” and the antihero of Liam Pieper’s satirical novel Appreciation. Having made an art of self-publicity, he is swiftly cancelled after an outburst on a television panel in which he not only appropriates Indigenous culture but insults Anzacs as well.'