Recent
Portraits
 Pat
Corrigan, AM, 2006
 Oil
on canvas, 72 x 56 inches (183 x 142cm)
This is the second of two portraits I have painted of Pat Corrigan.
It was painted as an entry for the 2006 Sydney Archibald Prize, which
has been running for about 80-odd years and as such is the longest
running portrait competition in the world. The painting is larger
than life at around six feet high, and, to make the deadline, was
painted in just a week. It was selected as a finalist and has joined
the year-long Archibald exhibition tour which will wind up in Melbourne
early next year.
Pat Corrigan is a successful business man and passionate art collector,
and is the kind of subject whose strength and presence made it possible
for me to employ a very simple background — nothing additional
was needed to visually support him.
This portrait had just been acquired for the Australian National Portrait
Gallery in Canberra and will form part of the Gallery's permanent
collection at the conclusion of the Archibald Exhibition.
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