Hazel Dooney press release (AKA Girlz With Gunz # 22)

'MODERN STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL, LAKE EYRE ON ACID'

2003 High gloss enamel and reflective vinyl on board, 100cm x 150cm

Three more Hazel Dooney paintings under the hammer at Menzies Art Brands, 25th March
Menzies Art Brands http://www.menziesartbrands.com has announced that three more of Hazel Dooney's enamel paintings – a large work from the now hard-to-find Lake Eyre On Acid series and two smaller Sports Babes, Resized For Easy Consumption – have been submitted for Menzies' major auction of Australian art scheduled for 25th March, in Sydney. Last December, Dooney's large enamel on board painting, Dangerous Career Babe: The Aviatrix, painted in 2008, was sold for $A32,701 at Christie's auction Modern And Contemporary Australian And South African Art in London. This exceeded the low-end of Christie's pre-sale estimate and represented a new record for Dooney's work at auction – an extraordinary achievement during a global economic downturn, especially for a young artist who has yet to exhibit in Europe. Just a week before, one of Dooney's earliest works, a ten-year-old enamel painting, Drowned Ophelia, was sold in Sydney, at Deutscher-Menzies' high profile auction of contemporary art, for over $A13,000. With buyers premium and taxes added, this exceeded the very ambitious pre-sale estimate of $A10,000 to $A14,000. The painting was first sold for around $A1,200.

For further information, please visit http://www.hazeldooney.com and Hazel's popular blog, Self Vs. Self, at http://hazeldooney.blogspot.com

For an interview or further comment, please contact Evie at Hazel Dooney's studio, dooneystudio@gol.com.