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Friday, October 7, 2022

‘I’m proud of us in the picture’: a family portrait captures laughter in lockdown

In a new series sharing stories about the artwork in Australian homes, Alice Gage shows the painting she commissioned for her husband’s birthday

Alice Gage’s family portrait originated as an idea to celebrate family life post-lockdown.

“Like all families, we went through a lot during Covid – when the pandemic started our daughter was three, and our son was only five months old, so we basically spent his first two years in our back yard,” says Gage, who lives in Sydney’s Arncliffe. “It was really hard, but there was a lot of joy in it, too. David built a treehouse. We pitched the tent and had fires. We cooked a lot outside.”

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