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painting Zoo Member Harrison Jacobs has found comfort in combining his two passions, oil painting and animals, while raising awareness for one of his favourite Australian animals – the Platypus. WORDS
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ike many Victorians, 19-year-old Zoos Victoria Member Harrison Jacobs took up a new hobby to get him through the boredom and social isolation of lockdown. Unlike many people, Harrison’s newfound skill of oil painting has continued long after restrictions eased, earning him a place in a recent exhibition at Kapi Art Space in the Dandenong Ranges and winning him the People’s Choice Award for his work My Friend Sam. At the beginning of 2020, Harrison’s mum Catherine enrolled him in an art class with Kapi Art Space teacher Heather Bradbury, who specialises in photo realism. After only three lessons, Victoria entered its first lockdown to stop the spread of COVID and lessons had to continue through Zoom.
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