2020 BOTANIC ART PRIZE, 2 November 2020 - 1 January 2021. Gallery 125, York Western Australia

BANKSIA MAN (110cm x 110cm) is inspired by the 1918 published Australian author May Gibbs. It is the adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and their troubles with the villains of the stories; the Banksia Men, modelled on the appearance of aged Banksia "cones", with follicles for eyes and other facial features. But I am proposing a contemporary version of the Banksia Man where the follicles became part of the man body, the leaves will be placed such as a super hero/villain mask and hairy flowers of the Banksia specimen are completing a fiction decor.