Congratulations to artist Lori Pensini for being selected as a Semi-finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for this year with this hauntingly beautiful self-portrait. Of her entry the artist says, 'Woman with Flathead' is a self portrait illustrating the precarious balance of our mental wellbeing amidst the volatile economic, environmental and social equities of the modern world we navigate. I have used the yellow tail flat head fish, a nondescript brown bottom dweller as a metaphor to chronicle the floundering thoughts that threaten to overrun my normally buoyant self. The raised venomous barb of the fin alluding to the vulnerability of such deprecation.'