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Anthea da Silva is an Australian artist with a passion for life drawing and portraiture. As the inaugural winner of the Darling Portrait Prize, her portrait Elizabeth, of Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, has generated a new level of interest in her work.

da Silva has been drawing and painting for many years, exhibiting and teaching, alongside her work as a paediatric occupational therapist. She brings her knowledge of anatomy to work, which gives it a fluidity and she often incorporates x-rays as a way to reference the dynamic human body.

A major influence on her later work has been the loss of her Kinglake home and her artworks in the Black Saturday fires of 2009.

Prizes
Darling Portait Prize, 2020.

Exhibitions and work
Transparent-Opaque, Wagga-Wagga Art Gallery, 2018.

Each for Equal, in the Griffith Regional Art Gallery, 2020

Brought to life in Oil, Greenough Museum, Western Australia, permanent collection, 2020