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Hunter Emerging Art Prize
Finalists and Winners

YEAR:

2025

Category:

Painting

Artist Name:
Keegan Tallaght Evans
Title:
Daydream
Daydream
Materials:

Acrylic painting on canvas.

Dimensions:

101.6x76.2cm

Price

$1000

About the artwork:

Floating against a vibrant yellow backdrop, the colour of consciousness, daylight, and presence. A face emerges, formed not with lines, but with movement. Bold strokes of red, blue, white, orange and yellow sweep across the figure like drifting thoughts. The expression is still, yet the interior is in motion, a swirl of memory, emotion, and imagination.
The eyes remain open, but they are closed to the world outside. They gaze inward.
“Daydream” captures the quiet contradiction of being here, but not quite, a mind unmoored while the body stays rooted. It speaks to those moments we vanish behind our own eyes, lost in thought, in longing, in something half-real. The vivid colours trace the shape of the subconscious, made visible against the stark yellow of waking life.
This is not a portrait of a person, it is a portrait of a pause, a drift, a wondrous escape.

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