Weekend Australian Review: Artistic Monuments
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Weekend Australian Review: Artistic Monuments
By Tim Douglas
NAS alum Zoe Young was featured in The Australian Weekend Review (31 August 2019)
On Boxing Day last year, Australian artist Zoe Young received an email from a Canadian winemaker asking if she might paint a portrait of the man’s brother. There were two important things to note: the subject of the would-be painting was in the final stages of pancreatic cancer, and he also may be someone Young had heard of: the Miles Franklin-winning Australian author Andrew McGahan.
Image: Detail from The Boy, The Bloke, The Man, by Zoe Young
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