![Sydney artist Martin Sharp in his Eastern Suburbs home studio.](/web/20170122131159im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/i/p/7/g/image.related.wideLandscape.300x169.gtioxb.png/1484704905738.jpg)
How Martin Sharp brokered Sydney Opera House reconciliation
Lin Utzon was a 17-year-old art student when Martin Sharp, the notorious young cartoonist of the satirical magazine Oz, arrived at a noisy Paddington party. She found him intelligent, charming and roguish.