When should the art be separated from the artist? This is the question a local government in Western Australia's Wheatbelt grappled with this week when it voted against selling the painting it was gifted by convicted child sex offender Rolf Harris.
At the request of one of his Perth Modern School peers, the disgraced entertainer painted a Quairading bushland scene in front of a packed crowd at the local town hall in 1983.
