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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Doosie Morris

‘We should all try to be this sexy cockatoo’: a voluptuous sculpture’s ode to Australiana

‘She just made me smile’: Que Minh Luu’s affection for her cockatoo lady.
‘She just made me smile’: Que Minh Luu’s affection for her cockatoo lady. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

For years, an “utterly absurd and totally sexy” sculpture located in her in-laws’ garden captivated Netflix Australia’s director of content, Que Minh Luu: an anthropomorphic ceramic cockatoo with “a solid rack” sitting in repose on a beach towel, enjoying a bucket of hot chips.

“Every time I saw her, she just made me smile.”

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