Posted by Jacqui Bonner | 27/04/2014
ANZAC GRANDSON IDRIS MURPHY WINS THE 2014 GALLIPOLI ART PRIZE
Sydney landscape painter Idris Murphy (pronounced Eye-dris) has won
the $20 000 2014 Gallipoli Art Prize with his painting ‘Gallipoli Evening 2013’
depicting a lone tree in a golden landscape, inspired by his recent visit to
Gallipoli. Murphy only recently discovered over 160 letters written by his
grandfather Charles Idris Pike from the battlefields of Gallipoli and the
Western Front to his sweetheart Violet (who later became Charles’ wife).