“The female nude has been a popular subject with artists for centuries, and has continued its dominance at this year’s Moran Prizes.
At the State Library today, Sydney artist Fiona Lowry won the $100,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for her revealing self-portrait, What I Assume You Shall Assume.
Fiona Lowry, What I Assume You Shall Assume, 2008.The acrylic on archival paper depicts the artist standing naked in Australian bushland.
Lowry, 34, said the work was part of a series she had been working on, which draws on the colonial mythology of the Australian bush as strange and malevolent.
“This is the first time I have entered a portrait prize,” she told reporters in Sydney today…”
Naked self-portrait wins Doug Moran portrait prize, Sydney Morning Herald.
Andrew Frost
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