In my most intimate work to date, with my mother and my father’s portraits I wanted to celebrate the human, the marks people make on the world driven by their true essence, treasuring the extraordinary as well as the ordinary, finding their inner beauty. And me, their common ground.
“The border between two countries, the collateral damage, the paradox that joins the two but also splits them apart” - Rupi Kaur
bronze
20 x 15 x 17 cm and 20 x 15 x 15 cm
Finalist
Elena Murgia, in conversation with Professor Ian Howard, discusses her work Courage and Fear. Recorded on 6 November 2021 at the 20th Anniversary Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize exhibition, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
Judges of the 20th Anniversary Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Dr Lara Strongman (Director Curatorial and Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia), Joanna Capon OAM (Art Historian, Curator and Industrial Archaeologist) and Jenny Kee AO (Artist and Fashion Designer).
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