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Cassandra Morgan

Artist who defaced painting says police raided her home

Activists defaced Down On His Luck in a protest against Woodside's alleged destruction of rock art. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

An artist who admitted to defacing one of Australia's most famous paintings in a gas company protest says police have raided her home in a "massive over-reach".

Joana Partyka was convicted in the Perth Magistrates Court earlier this month after pleading guilty to criminal damage after she spray-painted a Woodside Energy logo onto Frederick McCubbin's work Down On His Luck at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

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