Detail from Rob McHaffie’s Preserve this fruit 2013, oil on linen, 82 x 72cm. Image: supplied
McHaffie’s work was announced the winner at the exhibition opening on 29 August by Charlotte Day, guest judge and Director of the Monash University Museum of Art.
The oil and linen painting depicts a singular figure of an elderly man, reminiscent of Asian show puppets and temple paintings.
