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Dom, 2023

Anna Weston

Darling Portrait Prize 2024 Finalist

oil on canvas (support: 101.0cm x 71.0cm. frame: 104.0cm x 73.9cm depth 5.5cm)
Dom, 2023

Anna Weston
born Australia 1978

Dom 2023
oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

‘Dominique Chen is a proud Gamilaroi woman, practising artist, researcher and lecturer who personifies self-determination. I was compelled to paint Dom in response to her engaging teachings, as well as acknowledging her co-created live installation exhibition, Blak Laundry. Dom teaches us to be bold, brave, informed, and to hold space and listen with our ears and our hearts. She shows us the power of activist art and the way it can connect us to each other. Dom also helps us to learn more about our complicated history of colonisation. This painting celebrates the importance of humble trailblazers and change-makers such as Dom.’

Based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Anna Weston’s artistic practice incorporates her passion for portraiture and her fascination with the human experience. Weston is driven to celebrate our uniqueness and connectedness in her work.


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Darling Portrait Prize 2024
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The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG.
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