The scars of poker machines vs the impact of charity | Background Briefing | ABC NEWS
Western Sydney artist Nelson Nghe was shocked to discover one of the exhibition halls in the new Art Gallery of New South Wales wing had been named after billionaire businessman Len Ainsworth and his family, in thanks for a $10 million donation.
For Nghe, a gallery honouring the legacy of a man who’d built his fortune as Australia’s most prolific manufacturer of poker machines “definitely does not compute”. This was personal for him — Nghe’s art explores how poker machines shaped and scarred his childhood in Western Sydney.
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