The young Australian artist will take up a three-month residency in Paris and receive $40,000 funding.
Natasha Walsh has been awarded the 2018 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, which will see her take up a three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and receive $40,000 funding to further her art education while in Europe. Her winning body of work includes her 2018 self-portrait Dear Frida.
A young Australian artist and three-time finalist in the Archibald Prize, Walsh examines her own mortality through intricately detailed miniature self-portraits painted on copper. Her use of copper as a support for paintings evokes the fluctuating nature of her subject matter as the metal is highly responsive to change until sealed by the layers of paint. Walsh’s work was previously selected as a finalist for the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition in Edinburgh and the Waverley Arts Prize.
