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May3rd

2011 Moran Prizes were announced Today

Posted in Tags: Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Press 2011

The winners of this year’s 2011 Moran Prizes were announced TODAY (3 May 2011) at the State Library of NSW, selected from an outstanding field of 122,910 entries.

“My painting is a portrait of Baz Lurhmann , Oscar-nominated filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has made some of the most influential contemporary film, theatre and music of the past twenty years but is also one of my closest friends. We often chat about making art and have collaborated many times. Baz, I think has a quite expressive face but at this moment when Baz had his hands over his face a time where the pressure of making art and sharing it became so overwhelming I found that Baz a person who normally comes across as very self confident was completely vulnerable a feeling that all creative people share. I think this painting show a side of Baz that most never see.”

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