A 26-year-old Victorian artist has been taken out a $40,000 national prize for his artwork depicting thousands of bowing Muslims at the annual Mecca pilgrimage.
Jackson Slattery's work, titled Our Plastic Everything Is Broken, beat more than 200 entries won the Metro Art Gallery Award. The award is the expensive prize for Australian painters under 35.
Slattery says he was enthused by a magazine image of pilgrims facing Mecca in prayer. A $10,000 people's selection prize was awarded to 30-year-old Victoria Reichelt from Brisbane for her self portrait - A Stack of Books Crowded in a Bookshelf.
Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett, who made the announcement today, welcomed the judge’s decisions.
Slattery also won the people's selection prize in 2008.
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