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Spencer Tunick strips off for skin cancer

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Composite image - photo of Spencer Tunick looking serious and thousands of naked people  looking up to the sky
Spencer Tunick and one of his photos from the 2010 collection he took outside the Sydney Opera House.(Supplied by: Skin Check Champions and Spencer Tunick)

Spencer Tunick's artwork is a mass event, drawing together thousands to pose unclothed in the public space.

And whether it becomes an almost abstract landscape or a very human statement of defiance, the end result is a remarkable collection of photographs that outlive that initial moment and are displayed in galleries across the world.

In the Drawing Room, he talks about his latest work, a collaboration with Skin Check Champions on a beach in Sydney, which is using fine art to draw attention to skin cancer.

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