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No. 63Finalist · Noosa Art Prize 2026
Dry Plains Savannah 3
Anita West
Windsor, QLD
Artist statement
Early this year I travelled down to Mt Kosciusko to join a weeklong horse ride through the National Park. I was inspired by the palette of dry yellow ochre Mitchell grasses, low scrubby hillsides and blackened eucalypts recovering from devastating bushfires. On the last day, a distant smokey glow illuminated the skies and the golden light blanketed the landscape.