The Gallery thanks you for your donations towards the acquisition of this acclaimed portrait of Reg Richardson AM, by Mitch Cairns. A finalist in the Archibald Prize 2014, and a great example of minimalist portraiture.
We would be grateful for any support you may like to provide toward the acquisition of future works.
In 2007, Reg Richardson was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the visual arts as a supporter, patron and collector, and to the community through a range of social welfare and medical research organisations. Now, Richardson’s passion is encouraging well-to-do Australians to make charitable contributions; his own contributions combine with those he has coaxed from others to comprise some $120 million for the public good.
The artist, Mitch Cairns, was a finalist in the Archibald in 2013, 2014 and 2015; he was named runner-up in 2014 and 2015, with this portrait of Richardson and a portrait of Peter Powditch. Cairns’s curriculum vitae explains
His painting is neither tough nor trivial … Cairns uses paint to point out how lived experience is quickly regurgitated as idiomatic expression.
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