newton articles index   Recent Portraits Portrait 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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.     Site created by A Stroke of Genius, Inc.