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Archibald Prize, Portrait Artist Of The Year, Oil Painting Demos, Eleanor Rigby, Flat Art, Smart Art, Women Artists, Different Art Styles, Portrait Paintings

‘This self-portrait offered me a means of exploring my own mortality through the immediacy of working from life on the equally ephemeral support of copper,’ says Natasha Walsh. ‘Additionally, it enabled me to explore the relationship between the internal sense of self and the external appearance, which can define us in another’s eyes.’ ‘I am struck by the otherness of my appearance, simultaneously familiar and strange, never seen directly but through another lens, such as a camera or a…

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More information about this artwork will be available closer to the exhibition opening. Archibald Prize, Neo Dada, Art University, University Of Melbourne, Spray Paint On Canvas, Arts Award, Australian Art, Celebrity Chefs, Museum Of Art

Jon Cattapan is a Melbourne-based artist who has exhibited extensively in Australia and abroad. Known for his panoramic city vistas and figurative groupings, he was the subject of a major retrospective at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, in 2006.

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When Nora Heysen’s portrait of Madame Elink Schuurman was awarded the 1938 Archibald Prize, the Sydney Sun’s headline was Girl Makes History, Girl artist takes Archibald Prize. The story began, “Miss Nora Heysen, daughter of the famous Adelaide landscape painter, Hans Heysen,..” The writer was more interested in stating the importance of Hans Heysen as …

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