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 […]