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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Eelemarni Close-Brown

Poop art: animal dung painting competition seeks to break taboo of talking about poo

Wallpaper painted by Tasmanian artist Karen Lyttle using pademelon poo
‘Crap Wallpaper’ by Tasmanian artist Karen Lyttle was painted using pademelon poo. It won the inaugural animal poo painting competition in 2024 Photograph: Karin Koch/Pooseum

Karin Koch was inspired to start the world’s first animal poo painting competition after buying a large and highly detailed painting created out of cow dung by the German artist Werner Härtl.

Koch then commissioned the Tasmanian artist Mel Hills to paint wombats using wombat poo and a pademelon with pademelon poo collected from her garden.

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