2025 Muswellbrook Art Prize

Selective Sympathy (Aleppo) #2

kate stevens

Selective Sympathy (Aleppo) #2, 2024 oil on canvas diptych 125 x 200 cm

This painting is of drone footage (shown on Russian and BBC news stories) of Aleppo, Syria from 2016. Missing from these images of empty ruins is the devastating human toll of bombing civilian populations. My work looks at how different conflicts elicit different responses from our loungerooms half a world away.