Darren McDonald’s latest exhibition, ‘Faces’ focuses on portraiture. McDonald’s imagery is often sourced from photography but this took a turn when he decided to paint the artist Stephen Benwell for the Doug Moran Prize in 2013. He enjoyed the experience so much that he decided to continue using a sitter in his Port Melbourne studio.
Since this epiphany, he has asked colleagues and friends to sit for him; Drasko Boljevic, James Smeaton, Lewis Millar, and Brett Harris and Andrew Browne, which was entered in this year Archibald Prize. McDonald was also a finalist in this year’s Benalla Nude Art Prize and was highly commended for his painting of the artist Robin Astley, entitled Painter, Model with Chair.
Flinders Street Gallery
August 19 to September 13, 2014
Sydney
Brent (Harris) and Andrew (Browne), 2013, oil on glue sized linen, 152 x 152cm
Courtesy the artist and Flinders Street Gallery
