Darling Portrait Prize 2024 Finalist
Jordan Richardson
born Australia 1993
The red room 2024
oil on panel
‘This self portrait is the first painting I made after a trip to Madrid. I was only there for two weeks but spent most of my time in the Prado, enamoured by the Titians and the Goyas but most of all Velazquez. When I saw Las Meninas I wept. It represented everything I’ve ever believed about painting and it hung in front of me, as real as flesh and blood. Velazquez cemented my love for portraiture, and this work is a meditation on what I saw. I find self portraiture a beautifully quiet and reflective practice and this painting was a joy to make.’
Jordan Richardson lives and works on Guringai Country on the Central Coast, New South Wales. In Richardson’s portraiture, he reimagines historical European painting through a contemporary lens.
© The artist
The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG.
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