Ross Laurie's Morning Chorus (pictured above) has been selected for the Salon des Refusés 2026. John McDonald, one of Australia's best-known critics, writes about the finalists in his column 'Everything the artworld doesn't want you to know'.
'Laurie’s canvases are a mixture of observation and introspection, in which a composition evolves by virtue of the way one mark or plane rubs up against the next. His Morning Chorus could just as easily be viewed as a still life, as each segment of countryside seems to stand on end, like objects on a tabletop' – John McDonald, 2026.
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