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HIDDEN FACES
The 2021 Victorian Salon des Refusés

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Picture
This portrait was submitted to the 2021 Archibald Prize.
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Cat #9   Janice Gobey

IT'S A KIND OF MAGIC, MICHAEL VALE
Oil on Raw Linen
137 cm high x 92 cm wide
NFS


​Artist’s Statement

My subject is Michael Vale, a beloved art teacher in Melbourne. 
We both enjoy surrealism, painting animals and imaginary places. 
​I particularly enjoy painting fur and I was influenced by Leonora Carrington’s portrait of Max Ernst -  he holds a small lantern with a horse inside it.  In this instance, I wanted Michael to pick something that was important to his practice, hence the skull.
 
Michael agreed to pose for this painting on a hot Melbourne day. 
​It is set in an imaginary, magical landscape.  The title is a nod to Michael’s love of music.
 
Janice Gobey is a Melbourne artist working in both oil painting and installation.  Gobey’s work is a subtle play between figurative and abstract elements, woven together with autobiographical content, memories and sub-conscious.  She creates an alternate reality which is both beautiful and disturbing.

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