SIX-SEVEN..., EIGHT. 2026 - FINALIST - Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award 2026

Acrylic on canvas 40 x 50 cm A 30-year flashback to pre-digital Australia captures a Whitfield family portrait before kids, at South Australia’s ‘The Big Dice’ while travelling on the dole. This painting delivers a witty “dad joke” response quite literally, in analogue, to disruptive youth slang. Ironically, it visualises a modern viral meme in an era before smartphones existed, bridging generational gaps through nostalgia.