The Story Behind the Painting (Part 2)

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Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guessed just on viewing the work.

Sometimes that back story has made me look at the work in a totally different way and I’m bringing you another eight artists’ works in addition to those in ep 155.

Click on the artist’s name below for the full podcast episode (and any YouTube videos) and see images of the works we talk about below.

Davida Allen

Jacqui Stockdale

Sam Leach

Sam Leach YouTube video

Robin Eley

Peter O’Doherty

Kathrin Longhurst

Tom Carment

Nicholas Harding

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NGV Triennial highlights – Instagram reel

Memorial service for Jan Senbergs

I dream of Sam Neill when I go to bed, 1986 Davida Allen National Gallery of Victoria © Davida Allen Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased 1986 (P22-1986)

Drawings of George Stirling Jacqui Stockdale

George Stirling from the Heads of the Family series Jacqui Stockdale

Sam Leach Machine-assisted memory of Harewood Farm, Meadows oil on linen 51 x 51 cm

Robin Eley ‘Self Portrait’, 2010, oil on Belgian linen, 39″ x 25″ Runner Up, Doug Moran portrait Prize, 2010

Peter O’Doherty Edgecliff high rise, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 198x167cm

Kathrin Longhurst Poster Girl, 2011, oil on canvas Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award, 2011

Tom Carment Where I scattered my father’s ashes, Oratunga, SA watercolour on paper 45.3 x 52 cm

Nicholas Harding Robert Drewe (In the swell) 2006 oil on canvas (frame: 140.4 cm x 125.0 cm, support: 138.0 cm x 123.0 cm) Collection: National Portrait Gallery