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Winners of art prizes usually pledge to spend their winnings on exhibitions, artistic projects or overseas sabbaticals to further their skills. But Leslie Rice will plough the $100,000 he won yesterday in the 2007 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize into a tattoo parlour.
“I juggle the art and the tattooing. They’re really not a million miles apart,” Rice said.
Self-portraiture 2007, an acrylic on velvet, shows Rice’s head on a platter, a wry comment on the way artists offer themselves up for the sake of selfportraiture.
Rice half-jokingly began painting on velvet when he was studying at the National Art School and found it a beautiful surface to work on.
“Like lots of other people, we had velvet paintings in my home when I was a kid, and while they might be seen as kitsch now, I thought they were really beautiful paintings,” he said.
The inaugural Doug Moran Photographic Prize of $30,000 went to Ben Searcy for a shot of Terry and Bev Hicks at home awaiting news of their son, David, on the fifth anniversary of his incarceration.
West Perth photographer Gareth Willis picked up $5000 for The Somnambulist, one of six highly commended works in the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.
TheWest
Photo Tom Koprowski |
Photo Tom Koprowski |
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