HOMECOMING BILLY QUEEN
[SUBLURBAN FLORA series]
March 2020
Acrylic on canvas
40H x 30cm
Billy is a mid-century indigenous teenage prom queen who is as cute as a button. She is crowned with a tiara of cut Billy Button native wildflowers – hardy, butter-coloured pompom blooms on tall stems which resemble small, fluffy tennis balls. Buoyed by the cloudless sky blue and the grassy grey-green which are reminiscent of the colours of Melbourne’s 2020 Australian Open, she knows she has come home.
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Painted for the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, March 2020 (cancelled due to Coronavirus)