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- ↑ "Liverpool Art Prize 2008 – Mary Fitzpatrick". Liverpool Art Prize . Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
- ↑ "Six short-listed for first Liverpool Art Prize". Liverpool Daily Post . 20 February 2008.
