KAREN BARBOUTTIS WINS $20,000 ADELAIDE PERRY PRIZE
Karen Barbouttis wins $20,000 Adelaide Perry Prize - Art Collector
 28 February 2011 | Karen Barbouttis has won the $20,000 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing for a work titled Weekly Reports: Drawings from the Museum of Life. The work is a series of drawings of museum specimens made directly on the pages of an old ledger book from the 1890s.Barbouttis was selected from a field of 49 finalists including Locust Jones, Wendy Sharpe, Suzanne Archer, Yvonne Boag and Kim Buck. This year’s judge was Mosman-based painter Kerrie Lester. Jane O'Sullivan | ||||
| Above: Karen Barbouttis, Weekly Reports: Drawings from the Museum of Life, detail. Courtesy: the artist | ||||
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