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August 3, 2009
The Waterhouse Prize for natural history art has just concluded. The categories are paintings, works on paper sculpture and objects and youth art prize.
The overall winner is was Matilda Mitchell's (NSW) painting Fish. My favourite was:
Loreta Devjak (NSW), Egg, Acrylic and oil on canvas
I was disappointed that the works on paper did not include photography--isn't a photograph a work on paper? The exclusion of photography from natural history art strikes me as unwarranted.
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Esp. when you think about the works of Rosalind Purcell, for example -- and more locally, Justine Cooper...