AWW21 Infinite Splendours - Sofie Laguna

Gifted youngster Lawrence enjoys an idyllic childhood in regional
Victoria, where he lives with his widowed mother and young
brother at the foot of the Grampians. After taking his first
painting class, he dives obsessively into an exhilarating world
of light, colour and art, and thrives. But his world is shattered
by the arrival of an interloper, and a devastating incident that
follows. Sofie Laguna’s extraordinary and compassionate new book,
Infinite Splendours, is a luminous and heartbreaking meditation
on art, trauma, and innocence lost.


Chaired by Linda Jaivin