Hazy
March 11th, 2008
I was blown away by when I saw Fiona Lowry’s self portrait What I Assume You Shall Assume at MOP Projects on Abercrombie St a while ago. The SMH reports Lowry’s won the $100k Doug Moran portrait prize for the painting.
Part of a series, the painting’s set in the Belanglo State Forest where the backpacker murders took place in the 1990s. The ABC has Lowry:
I’m more interested in just exploring that kind of paranoia that sits within the landscape, specifically the Belanglo State Forest.
The typically wowserish press coverage reached a haiku-like poetry with this headline from the Adelaide Advertiser: “Artist strips, wins $100,000″.
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