All The Way From Leningrad
Hazel Dortch
Year: 7
School: John Curtin College of the Arts
Medium: oil on canvas
Artist statement: This still life painting evokes the story of Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad. The rat skull relates to the starvation of Leningrad and the cigar box is what took Dmitri Shostakovich’s microfilm of his Leningrad symphony to America.