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Sunny day, 2019

Dalu Zhao

Darling Portrait Prize 2020 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. 

Darling Portrait Prize 2020

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