[2] Pople studied photography in Tasmania, and sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, London.
[3] In 2008, Pople won the Sir John Sulman Prize with a work entitled Stage Fright.
[5] The works included images of Bellini's San Zaccaria Altarpiece overlaid with pornography.
[3] Pople won the Glover Prize for landscape painting in March 2012 with a work that included the figure of Martin Bryant, the convicted perpetrator of the Port Arthur Massacre in the foreground of the landscape of Port Arthur.
[6] Later in that year, a work entitled "Degas's Night" which included Degas' sculpture Little Dancer of Fourteen Years on the background of red-light district in Darlinghurst, New South Wales was also the cause of controversy.