How the art world protected him
Such was the furore raised by the art world over the 1994 arrest of the artist — whose works were selling for up to £25,000 — that, to the incredulity of Scotland Yard, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge him.
Some of Ovenden's art has been investigated as possible child pornography by US and UK authorities on a number of occasions. In 2009 Ovenden was prosecuted in the UK on a charge of creating indecent images. The first jury was discharged and a second trial collapsed when the prosecution witnesses did not appear in court. As a result of these investigations, Ovenden's work received support from leading figures in the art world.
In April 2013, Ovenden was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one charge of indecent assault against a child, charges relating to girls who had modelled for him. Following his conviction, the Tate gallery removed images of his work from its online gallery, and also removed access to his work in its galleries,[3] although it later decided to reinstate three abstract landscapes to the permanent gallery on its website.[4] Ovenden was sentenced on 3 June 2013 to a year's imprisonment suspended for two years. When sentencing Ovenden, Judge Graham Cottle told him he cloaked his sexual interest by claiming it was an artistic one. Cottle said a "stream" of young girls had arrived at Ovenden's home, Barley Splatt on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, to be photographed. "The girls had no understanding at that time of the true purpose behind what you were doing, a purpose that was undoubtedly sexual." The judge went on to say that one of the indecency offences Ovenden was convicted of – asking a girl to touch him while they were in a bath together – could today be treated as inciting a child to engage in a sexual act, carrying a maximum jail sentence of 14 years.[5]
francine_rose ago
A book about him being part of a satanic pedophile occult
https://books.google.com/books?id=aUtfCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT81&lpg=PT81&dq=graham+ovenden+friends&source=bl&ots=WB-psP1wy6&sig=l9CdeVSwaYvI_i0k0NcPwLidJWw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZvP6z95fSAhUW0GMKHRT3CKEQ6AEIgAEwEg#v=onepage&q=graham%20ovenden%20friends&f=false
Anon1234567 ago
Why don't they ever show the work in any of these articles? Maybe I missed it. I'll look again.
francine_rose ago
Because it's NSFW
Anon1234567 ago
Then, they can censor the paintings, but it would be nice to see the context and not just someone's take on it.
francine_rose ago
You can google his work Most will be destroyed
francine_rose ago
How the art world protected him Such was the furore raised by the art world over the 1994 arrest of the artist — whose works were selling for up to £25,000 — that, to the incredulity of Scotland Yard, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304791/How-art-establishment-helped-paedophile-painter-Graham-Ovenden-away-20-years.html
francine_rose ago
Some of Ovenden's art has been investigated as possible child pornography by US and UK authorities on a number of occasions. In 2009 Ovenden was prosecuted in the UK on a charge of creating indecent images. The first jury was discharged and a second trial collapsed when the prosecution witnesses did not appear in court. As a result of these investigations, Ovenden's work received support from leading figures in the art world.
In April 2013, Ovenden was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one charge of indecent assault against a child, charges relating to girls who had modelled for him. Following his conviction, the Tate gallery removed images of his work from its online gallery, and also removed access to his work in its galleries,[3] although it later decided to reinstate three abstract landscapes to the permanent gallery on its website.[4] Ovenden was sentenced on 3 June 2013 to a year's imprisonment suspended for two years. When sentencing Ovenden, Judge Graham Cottle told him he cloaked his sexual interest by claiming it was an artistic one. Cottle said a "stream" of young girls had arrived at Ovenden's home, Barley Splatt on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, to be photographed. "The girls had no understanding at that time of the true purpose behind what you were doing, a purpose that was undoubtedly sexual." The judge went on to say that one of the indecency offences Ovenden was convicted of – asking a girl to touch him while they were in a bath together – could today be treated as inciting a child to engage in a sexual act, carrying a maximum jail sentence of 14 years.[5]