Artist Lori Pensini has been selected as a finalist in this years prize for her thought provoking and clever artwork - The Chatterbox Fortune Tellers - The critically endangered edition 2# - 10 x 50 x 14 pencil & ink on paper. This will be open for viewing from the 2 - 25 August at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum in New South Wales.

Artist Statement:
The ‘critically endeared edition’ is a dystopian projection of the childhood chatterbox fortune telling game. Each fortune teller displays 4 critically endangered or extinct known and lesser known species and each playing outcome arrives at the same cataclysmic point spotlighting species elimination. The aim is to emphasise the acute fragility of our environment and the need for urgent action to stabilise the ecological disequilibrium brought about by our land mismanagement.