Darling Portrait Prize 2020 Highly Commended
Darling Portrait Prize 2020 People's Choice Award
Wendy Bowman is an 86 year-old farmer and environmentalist from Camberwell, in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales. In 2017 Wendy was awarded the international Goldman Environmental Prize – the world's pre-eminent environmental award for grassroots conservation – after she won a legal victory against mining company Yancoal, halting the development of a 315 hectare coal mine that would have consumed her farm. Wendy has endured three decades of battling the multinational mining companies that surround her property. She has been evicted and relocated, but continues to fight for the rights of landholders.