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23 August 2014

9:00 AM

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

I was hung once, in the Archibald, that is. Paul Newton, having been commissioned to paint me by the ABC, entered the resulting portrait in the Archibald Prize of 2008. That’s when I got nervous. It was an excellent painting because Paul is an accomplished and insightful portraitist so if it wasn’t chosen to be hung it would be because I, as the subject, was not interesting enough.

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