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Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize 2022 Finalist
16-18 years
‘La Vita’ is a portrait of my Italian grandmother, poised and wearing her favourite jewellery. La Vita means ‘life’ and the Italian word relates to her upbringing and culture. She is full of character and has many stories to tell. The earthy tones allude to her past, growing up in the Italian countryside, and are blurred with faint blue pigments which relate to how memories can fade over time but the overall character of the person remains, and so do the most important events in their history. My grandmother has lived through worlds of old and new.
Little Darlings is for primary and secondary students, with four separate categories across Kindergarten to Year 12. Responding to the theme ‘identity’, students painted, drew, photographed, printed or combined all of these to make their portrait.
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