Richard Lewer Dirty Cheating Dogs 9th June — 3rd July
{Suite} Wellington 243 Cuba Street Te Aro, 6011 Dirty Cheating Dogs is a suite of twelve lithographs by Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer, produced in collaboration with Australian Print Workshop Printers as part of Richard's Collie Print Trust Printmaking Fellowship in 2020.
Innovative methods of collaboration (including the ubiquitous Zoom) enabled this project to be realised under Melbourne's COVID lockdown restrictions.
Dirty Cheating Dogs All works edition of 15
Tyson Vs. Holyfield The Underarm incident 38 x 54cm — $1,750 framed $1,500 unframed
All other images 76 x 56cm — $2,400 framed $2,100 unframed
To purchase works or for further information please contact {Suite} Director David Alsop [email protected] or +64 (0)21 956 663 Fine Cotton Fine Cotton was not a great racehorse but he made headlines when involved in a substitution scam. A syndicate involving racing’s elite purchased an identical looking brown horse with white markings on his hind legs but the horse became lame just before the race so another horse, Bold Personality, several racing grades higher was purchased. The horse was a different colour, so the syndicate applied Clairol dark brown hair dye to the bay coloured horse. But they forgot to peroxide his hind legs so on race day they resorted to painting his legs with white house paint. The heavy betting action, decreasing odds and huge improvement of ‘Fine Cotton’, who went on to win the race, raised the racing stewards suspicions who immediately launched an investigation. ‘Fine Cotton’ was trotted back to the weigh-in area with paint dripping down his legs.
Antonio Margarito Prior to the 2009 Shane Mosley vs. Antonio Margarito welterweight fight, Mosley’s trainer, Naazim Richardson was in Margarito’s dressing room so he could observe his hands getting wrapped before putting on his boxing gloves. Richardson noticed what appeared to be Plaster of Paris powder on Margarito’s wraps. Plaster of Paris hardens when it comes into contact with moisture and any fighter will sweat during the course of a fight. As soon as Richardson saw the substance, he accused Margarito of fighting with loaded gloves. Margarito’s hands were rewrapped and Mosley hammered Margarito.
Donald Crowhurst In 1968 Donald Crowhurst an amateur sailor with a business on the brink of bankruptcy, entered the Golden Globe non-stop solo circumnavigation yacht race, enticed by it’s £5,000 prize money. Once departed from England it became clear that neither Crowhurst nor his trimaran Teignmouth Electron were up to the challenge. Realising he had no chance of winning Crowhurst began falsifying his logbooks and communicating false positions to the jury, making it believe he was ahead of the other competitors. In reality his boat never left the Atlantic Ocean. Some days later when Crowhurst realised that he was one of the only competitors still in the race and that he could not plausibly get away with his fraud, he suffered a breakdown. His empty yacht was found by a passing ship with two sets of logbooks on board, the fake and the real, thanks to which the world has been able to learn of his desperate endeavour.
South Africa World Cup A diarrhoea and vomiting bug swept through the All Blacks team two days before the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. During the game, which South Africa won, some New Zealand players could be seen vomiting on the sidelines. Many believe that gambling syndicates, not wanting to pay out on the match favourite, were behind the deliberate poisoning linked to catering at the All Black’s Johannesburg hotel. Rosie Ruiz Rosie Ruiz won the women’s category for the Boston Marathon in 1980 with the fastest time for the Boston Marathon and third fastest women’s marathon recorded of all time. Rosie had her title stripped and was disqualified a week later after it was found she hadn’t run the whole course. She’d joined the marathon only 1 km from the finish line. Suspicions were initially raised during her after-race interview; she couldn’t recall her race plan or intervals and splits, had no memory of any special features or the crowds along the course nor could she recall the raucous cheers - a tradition - for the first woman past the university. Physically she wasn’t even fatigued or sweating on camera. Later when questions were asked, marathon checkpoint spotters couldn’t recall seeing her, nor could any female frontrunners remember being passed by her.
Sun Yang Sun Yang - one of the greatest freestyle swimmers of all time and second only to Michael Phelps of the U.S. in his haul of titles and medals - has consistently rejected accusations that he is a drug cheat. This claim is complicated by his 2014 suspension by the Chinese Swimming Association, for using medication he claims was prescribed for heart palpitations. Yan was also handed an eight-year ban after a hammer was used to smash a vial of his blood during a testing round in 2017, preventing drug testers taking it for analysis. In December 2020 Yang successfully appealed the ban after the political bias of the original arbitrators was exposed.
The ball tampering incident Australian cricketers Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were slapped with unprecedented bans for the roles they played in a plot to alter the condition of the ball in the Cape Town Test between Australia and South Africa in 2018. Bancroft was caught by television cameras trying to rough up one side of the ball with sandpaper, which he then slipped into his trousers, to make it swing in flight. The attempt ultimately failed, and on-field umpires decided the ball had not been altered in any noticeable way. Regardless of the outcome, the players’ were heavily condoned both locally and internationally for bring the game into disrepute. The fall out initiated a deep review into “culture and conduct” of Australia’s professional cricket teams.
Lance Armstrong In 2013, after more than a decade of vehemently denying blood doping and suing anyone who dared to challenge him, seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong came clean in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs and blood transfusions throughout much of his career. During the interview, he stated that his “mythic, perfect story” was “one big lie”, and attributed his denials to being “a guy who expected to get whatever he wanted, and to control every outcome”. The hand of God Diego Maradona’s performance at the 1986 World Cup convinced the world he had a unique gift. Tied 0-0 early in the second half in the quarterfinals, at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, Maradona went up to contest the ball against England goalkeeper Peter Shilton. Rather than attacking it with his head, Maradona punched the ball into the net with his hand. The referees allowed the goal and Maradona admitted latter that the goal was “a bit of mischief”, scored “a little with Diego’s hand and a little with Maradona’s head”.
The Underarm incident New Zealand needed a six off the final ball to tie the 1981 one- day cricket international at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Not wanting to see his team beaten, the captain of the Australian team, Greg Chappell, instructed his younger brother Trevor to deliver the final ball underarm along the ground. New Zealand captain Geoff Howarth said later, it was “not in the spirit of cricket” and hundreds of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders agreed with him.
Tyson Vs. Holyfield After losing to Evander Holyfield in 1996, Mike Tyson was desperate to set his career back on course with their highly anticipated rematch in 1997. In the first round Holyfield hit Tyson hard with body shots while Tyson flailed, then Holyfield head-butted Tyson, opening a cut over Tyson’s right eye. Late in the third round the two were involved in a clinch, Tyson spit out his mouthguard, bit off a chunk of Holyfield’s right ear and then spit it onto the canvas. The gruesome move cost Tyson two points but the fight was allowed to continue. And then Tyson bit Holyfield’s other ear. With 10 seconds left in the third round, he was disqualified.
Tonya Harding Tonya Harding was an impressive ice skater with unmatched athleticism. She was the first woman to attempt and land a triple axel but was pitted against her fellow competitor Nancy Kerrigan who was the darling of 1990’s American ice-skating. In January 1994, Tonya Harding’s ex-husband hired a hit man to club Nancy Kerrigan’s knee during practice for the U.S. Women’s Championships in Detroit. The injury temporarily took Kerrigan out of competition but Harding was banned from competing for life – she has always maintained that she did not know about the attack before it happened.