SMH: Painting of musician Robert Forster wins Australia’s richest art prize

SMH: Painting of musician Robert Forster wins Australia’s richest art prize

By Linda Morris

Congratulations to NAS alumnus What who has won the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2019, for a portrait of Robert Forster that judges said shimmered off the canvas like a “vibrating aura”.

Image: Dominic Lorrimer

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Introducing Bansi Joshi (@bansi_art), one of our graduating Printmaking MFA students, and their selected work ‘(There is no direct translation)’. 

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Bansi Joshi 
'(There is no direct translation)'
undyed cotton fabric, cotton thread 
30 x 30 cm 

Artwork Photography: Peter Morgan (@petrius)
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