Lori Pensini has been selected as a finalist in the Minnawarra Art Prize 2021. The Minnawarra Art Awards is the centrepiece of the Armadale Arts Festival and offers an exciting public program ensuring that it’s not just the arts lovers that are able to revel in this creative visual feast! 1-16 May 2021 Lori Pensini - 'This painting is my ancestral story, it speaks of the co joining of cultures and the bonds created in the shared keeping of landscape. The women are wearing blossom dresses of the wandoo eucalyptus tree, a totem for the strength and resilience the kinship of married cultures had to endure against the social and political pressures of the times - biologically the wandoo is legendary for its hardness and tolerance to drought and salinity. The figures are symbolically stepping out of the darkness and walking towards the light in a show of unity.'