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The year was 1982. Fitzroy was still scruffy, punk was reaching Australian shores and hair-dos were only ascending. Across the river, discontentment brewed among a group of art students. Not only were they uninspired by prevailing aesthetics trends - namely abstraction and conceptual art - they lamented the art system itself. Rigid, hierarchical and near impossible to scale, rather than play its game, these renegades decided to make-up their own rules.

In their teens and early twenties, artists including David Larwill, Mark Schaller, Sarah Faulkner, Mark Howson, Judi Singleton and Pasquale …