Michael Zavros
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Michael Zavros is an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n artist.

Zavros studied printmaking at Queensland College of Art
Queensland College of Art
The Queensland College of Art is a specialist arts and design college located in South Bank, Brisbane, and Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It was founded in 1881 and is the oldest arts institution in Australia....

 in the 1990s. Zavros has won three Australian drawing prizes: The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize and the Kedumba Prize. In 2010 Zavros won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is an annual Australian portrait prize founded by Doug Moran in 1988, the year of Australia's Bicentenary. It is the richest portrait prize in the world with A$150,000 awarded to the winner and A$10,000 awarded to the runner-up...

 with a portrait of his child Phoebe is dead/McQueen.

He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize
Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...

 in 2009
Archibald Prize 2009 finalists
Below is a list of finalists for the 2009 Archibald Prize ;* Anthony Bennett - self-portrait in the bathroom discussing beauty, bukowski and brett whiteley with my ex, now a stripper, who likes to dress as wonder woman...

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