A “narrative-rich” painting based on a Chinese ghost story has won the region’s biggest art prize, Geelong Gallery has announced.
Kate Behnon’s Graveyard Scene/The Beauty and the Sadness of Bones won the $30,000 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize from a field of 550 entries.
The painting was “highly refined in its pictorial organisation of interrelating forms and striking interactive colour”, said gallery director Jason Smith.
Melbourne-based Behnon had produced a “touching interpretation” of the An-Li tale about loss and grieving, he said.
The painting and other works shortlisted for the acquisitive prize are on exhibition at the gallery until 13 November.
