Jimmy Barnes, Claudia Karvan and Tim Rogers remember what it was like having their portrait painted - and if they liked it.
What’s it really like to have your portrait painted for the Archibald Prize? Six well-known subjects reveal the good, chaotic and sticky of sitting for Australia’s best-known art prize.I wasn’t sure I could sit still long enough for anyone to paint me. I hoped Ben would be very fast or his painting would turn out to be a blur. Luckily for me, Ben had better ideas than trying to keep me in one place for very long. He had a plan.
, in which I’m holding up a bay leaf and looking sombre. They tell me they’re going to hang it in a room so they can visit it whenever they want to feel judged.Credit:Martine and I spent a bit of time together socially, so it didn’t come out of the blue. At the time, she was famous for her water landscapes and I thought, “Wow, how she’s going to do this?” It’s a bit of a conundrum, because you have to say a lot in a portrait, everything becomes very symbolic and significant.
Martine offered the portrait to me but I laughed and was like, “Yeah right, I’ll hang it in my living room.” It was sold through her gallery on the Gold Coast. I don’t know who owns it. Hopefully I’m in a hallway, nowhere more prestigious.Keith approached me out of the blue. We have a lot of mutual friends and I said yes because he’s a Brissie boy and I’m a Queenslander and because it’s a pretty tight knit arts and creative community there. I sat for him about two or three times.
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