Fiona Lowry has won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for her painting What I Assume You Shall Assume.
The work, Lowry's first entry in a major art competition, shows the artist standing naked in the Belanglo State Forest, the site of the infamous backpacker murders. She said her painting explored the sometimes strange and malevolent quality of the Australian bush.
'My work tends to depict people doing things that are slightly ambiguous in the landscape, but this is the first time I've turned around to face the viewer. I'm the figure in it because it's easiest to use myself.'
11 Mar 2008
