2026 Kennedy Prize Catalogue

39 | Sacred Ground | Rachelle Dusting | $4950 | Oil on Linen

Sacred Ground is a self-portrait shaped by my experience of endometriosis and the tension between personal ambition and expectations of womanhood. The pomegranate symbolises fertility, faith and possibility. Through intense saturation and light, I explore beauty in the tender uncertainty of identity unfolding between desire and lived experience.