Wadjemup by Lori Pensini Finalist - Kilgour Art Prize 2019

Lori has been selected as a finalist in the annual art prize for figurative and portrait painting administered annually by Newcastle Art Gallery.

Wadjemup - black jail, white playground. 1838-1902. The history of Wadjemup (Rottnest Island, WA) tells of some 3700 aboriginal boys and men ‘rounded up’, chained and walked from as far as the Goldfields, Western Desert, Pilbara and Kimberlys to be incarcerated on Rottnest island 19km from the mainland port of Fremantle. Lori Pensini 2019