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

Thursday 31 October 2019
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SMH: Painting of musician Robert Forster wins Australia's richest art prize

Thursday 31 October 2019

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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