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Darling Portrait Prize Finalist
The subject in my portrait is my wife Xiaoxi Xia, and she agreed that I could submit the painting as an entry in the Darling Portrait Prize. I commenced the work with initial sketches and photographs of my wife by the seaside in 2019. I am an artist; I emigrated with my family from China to Australia in 2001, and I entered my work ‘Lao Fei’ Stephen FitzGerald in the Archibald Prize of 2003. It won the People's Choice Award and was later (in 2011) acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.
The Darling Prize is a new annual prize for Australian portrait painters, painting Australian sitters. The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.
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