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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Brigid Delaney

‘I’m proud of us in the picture’: a family portrait captures laughter in lockdown

Alice Gage with her family in Sydney, posing beside the portrait commissioned from Melbourne artist Edie Atkins
Alice Gage with her family in Sydney, posing beside the portrait commissioned from Melbourne artist Edie Atkins. Photograph: Nikki To/The Guardian

Alice Gage’s family portrait originated as an idea to celebrate family life post-lockdown.

“Like all families, we went through a lot during Covid – when the pandemic started our daughter was three, and our son was only five months old, so we basically spent his first two years in our back yard,” says Gage, who lives in Sydney’s Arncliffe. “It was really hard, but there was a lot of joy in it, too. David built a treehouse. We pitched the tent and had fires. We cooked a lot outside.”

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