Refugee artist's blank postcards send message about attitudes to asylum seekers

Brisbane-based Sha Sarwari has won a national art prize with his installation of the postcards Australians never sent Inspiration struck Sha Sarwari as he pondered how his warm personal encounters as a refugee in Australia belied the portrayal of asylum seekers in its politics and media.“I wanted to know for myself, to see what people think,” says the visual artist, an ethnic Hazara from Afghanistan who arrived on a boat from Indonesia in 2000 as a teenager fleeing the persecution of