Polly Borland on art, bodies and Melbourne in the 80s: 'It was kind of a free-for-all’

As the LA-based Melbourne artist’s surreal photographs grace Australian galleries, she talks selfies, Nick Cave and shooting the Queen

The group of friends would go on to become some of Australia’s most important artists, film-makers and musicians. But in Melbourne in the 1980s, they were just kids: young, hanging out, with an inexhaustible appetite for partying.

It was the era of punk and the “little band scene”, where small bands formed and dissolved over the course of a night or a week, playing in venues around St Kilda and Fitzroy.

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