Kate Stevens (Braidwood, Canberra) is an artist whose work focuses on Australian narratives of distant conflicts, most recently with works addressing the failures of Australia’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan, and how global conflict elicits different responses from our loungerooms half a world away.

The painting "Selective Sympathy (Aleppo) #2" is of drone footage (shown on Russian and BBC news stories) of Aleppo, Syria from 2016. Missing from this image of empty ruins is the devastating human toll of bombing civilian populations.