This work is a mediation and meditation on storytelling, career paths and donuts. Winners and losers, victories and victims, Sisyphus and his rock and finally, alienation and love.

I recently saw a book of Australian kitsch produced by Barry Humphries in the eighties. It had a photo of a collection of entertainment trophies like the Gold Logie. These Henry Moore-ish objects were the key to secret kingdoms of the entertainment world, in a similar way that winning an art prize
functions for the art world. Only there are usually no trophies (just big cheques)…so I made a model for one to be used for all the art prizes in Australia.

David M Thomas – March 2016