SMH: ‘It’s bloody fantastic’: Modest artist scoops $30,000 prize

Friday 26 March 2021
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SMH: ‘It’s bloody fantastic’: Modest artist scoops $30,000 prize

Friday 26 March 2021

Article by Nick Galvin

Multi award-winning artist Euan Macleod has won the $30,000 Dobell Drawing Prize with a pastel-on-paper work entitled Borderlands.

Each of the 15 postcard-sized images in the work depict scenes from the NSW/​Queensland border when it briefly reopened in July at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Read the full article through the link below.

Photo: James Alcock

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