Under the Radar

HAYDEN THORPE

The reason I chose this record was because when I was in New York I saw his exhibition at the Jewish Museum. Which is just a genius installation. Within that was a series of around 300 self-portraits. I don’t think he started making self-portraits until the last 20 years of his life. One of them is him with a skinhead and a slight beard, and he’s

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