Poop art: animal dung painting competition seeks to break taboo of talking about poo
by Eelemarni Close-Brown from on (#6YA1K)
The Poo-tastic Tasmanian Paint Off asks artists to use a unique medium to paint portraits of people they admire
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 Hartl.
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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