Style and Themes
Much of Sculthorpe's early work demonstrates the influence of Asian music, but he says that these influences dwindled through the 1970s as indigenous music became more important. He says that he had been interested in indigenous culture since his teens, mainly because of his father "who told me many stories of past wrongs in Tasmania. I think he was quite extraordinary for that time, as was my mother". However, it was only with the advent of recordings and books on the subject around the 1970s that he started to incorporate indigenous motifs in his work.
Sculthorpe says he is political in his work – and that his work has also always been about "the preservation of the environment and more recently, climate change". In the early 1970s Sculthorpe was engaged to Anne Boyd but he has never married. In 1982 a painting of Sculthorpe by artist Eric Smith won the Archibald Prize.
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