LSAD artist shortlisted for Australia’s richest portrait prize

Henri Korn, by Thomas Delohery
Henri Korn, by Thomas Delohery

THE LSAD trained artist Thomas Delohery is a finalist in the Black Swan Portrait Prize 216 in Western Australia. Delohery now lives in Melbourne and has been resident in Oz for years, having been awarded a Distinguished Talent Visa.

The subject of the Clare painter’s entry is Holocaust survivor Henri Korn who works in the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne.

Korn has written autobiographical works, ‘Saviours: The Story of a Jewish Altar Boy’ and  ‘My Past is my Future’; hewould like to use Delohery’s artwork on the cover of his latest publication.

Black Swan finalists’ work will be on display from October 8 at the Art Gallery of WA and the winners of three sponsored prizes totalling €77,500 announced a week later.

Delohery keeps close links to home and was judge last year to the annual Richard Harris Portrait Competition, a sidebar to the film festival which this year will open on October 27 to run five days over the bank holiday weekend.

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