Portrait Artist Of The Year (AU) Season 1 Episode 1

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00:00Over the coming weeks Sydney's newest art precinct White Bay Power Station will

00:10host artists from all over Australia competing for the ultimate prize a

00:15life-changing Commission to hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra

00:19this is one of the biggest moments of my life right now they will take on the

00:24challenge to paint some of Australia's most famous faces and with only four

00:36hours to complete their portraits the clock will be ticking excited just to

00:44paint with other people like I'm so used to just painting by myself like a loser

00:49if you want some inspiration to get my earrings in there might be a tax

00:54deduction each week one artist will be selected to progress to the semi-final

01:01her pencil work is quite frankly astounding this is masterful the time is moving

01:08way faster than I would like it to but it's gonna happen

01:12judging is director of the National Portrait Gallery Australia Brie Pickering

01:20I look at a lot of portraits that's what I do what I'm looking for is an artist

01:25that can draw out the inner humanity of their sitter tell us something that that

01:30we didn't know about them before associate professor of art history at

01:33ANU Robert Wellington I'm really excited to see what the artist will bring to this

01:39competition to create something that's more than just a lightness something a

01:42little more unexpected and award-winning artist Abdul Abdulah I think the

01:47toughest thing about this competition is the four-hour time limit when I'm

01:50painting I have months to do one painting but for these guys they're in the

01:53room in front of an audience there's all this pressure and they have to have it

01:56finished by the end of the day three hours to go one hour to go time is up let's

02:02see some art artists turn your easels

02:08see some art artists turn your eyes to go to the end of the day

02:13oh

02:15it's really lovely really lovely

02:19you're so beautiful Jimmy thank you so is you

02:22do we get your tissue no so which of our artists will have the talent

02:28oh oh oh wow there is something in every single one of them that resonates and time management skills

02:38just pick one to take out the title

02:45oh the winner of portrait artist of the year is

03:00today is the first of our heats with nine artists competing four professionals and

03:07five amateurs from around Australia I'm just here to give it a crack the only

03:12training I've ever had is as a barista this is wild this is like one of the

03:20biggest moments of my life right now sorry the plan is to I don't have a plan

03:28each artist submitted a self-portrait that earned their place in today's heat deciding which artists

03:39will go through to the semi-final are our judges all right team first up today we have Lottie who is a

03:47country girl from Wagga and although she's untrained she's already sold paintings to Bella and Gigi Hadid

03:53wow

03:53what I'm really loving about this work is the nature of the storytelling behind it

04:00it's not a perfect likeness but the little curl in the lips the glint in the eye there's a cheekiness to

04:08this personality that starts to come through you know so she's giving us more than the plane of the

04:14picture which is what we want in a portrait Vaughan is a construction manager in WA and he works with charcoal

04:22there are a lot of different techniques going on here there is an element of a kind of a collage

04:28and you can see that Vaughan is a really good draftsman there's a real masculine energy about

04:32this painting which I think is quite interesting Emanuel paints with coffee and I believe you know

04:41that I've known Emanuel since he was in high school many many years ago now back when he used to paint

04:46with Milo I can't wait for you guys to meet him he's got an infectious positive energy a really

04:53interesting story here's an artist with garden heritage working in coffee and I think that that

04:59must be significant yeah I would agree this is Jasmine who is a state basketballer and always

05:05incorporates an animal into her paintings the artist I think of first of course is Frida Kahlo a Mexican

05:11painter who works with animal form to give a sense of the inner life of the sitter Dan paints on cardboard

05:20and exclusively uses house paints I saw Daniel in the Archibald finals in 2016 and it was a really

05:27beautiful painting yeah there's a definitely an energy to this work I'm guessing Daniel works quite

05:33quickly and possibly messily so I want you to watch out Robert I do not want your clothes getting painted on

05:45so Natalie as a live wedding artist she's working very very quick but this is a complex picture some

05:52of it is very linear and drawn and other parts of it have been worked up for me she's bringing a sense of

05:57magic it's a sense of the world of anime Hiroshi who is a hair stylist he actually calls himself the

06:06Michelangelo of hair you can see in this self-portrait that the hair is important the beautiful silver and

06:13black that's going on there it does draw your face to it in the way that he's lit his forehead as well

06:19all right here we have Jimmy who is a rock star turned tattooist turned painter who studied fine

06:26arts in Florence Jimmy is a really really slick painter and that left hand is beautiful and he's

06:34sort of pensive but it's a little bit blue steel as well he's very handsome I don't like sitting

06:39directly thanks to him it draws comparisons Jamie who is a high school art teacher very delicate painting

06:48this one isn't it I think there's not a lot of room for mistakes with Jamie's practice if she's

06:54painting in this style today it could go wrong because this looks like kind of painting that you

06:59have to do in a quiet room our nine artists are split into groups of three in just four hours and in

07:17front of an audience each trio will be creating a portrait of a celebrity who's each brought in an

07:23object to help the artist get some insight into their personality now I would love this guest to

07:29cook all of my meals she has graced the small screen for almost three decades regularly appearing on the

07:38Great Australian Bake Off MasterChef but you might know her best from ABC's The Cook and the Chef can you

07:45please welcome the Honourable Maggie Beer

07:47are you excited I'm nervous are you

08:14I'm excited lots of feelings now what have you brought for your item today oh well I've bought

08:25a rather tarnished copper bowl copper it's the most amazing medium to be able to whisk egg whites

08:34and it's 35 years old I bought in Paris it's sort of signified buying the right piece of equipment at

08:43the right place at the right time in life your food is often the subject how do you feel with eyes

08:50being on you this time that's why I'm nervous sitting still is not the skill I have but if you ask me I

08:59will as much as I care our next guest had a very successful career as an art director and designer in New York London and Sydney and then at 40 he decided I'm going to try painting and became extremely successful at that too he's had 51 man shows had major exhibitions all over the world and currently one of his pieces is hanging at the National Portrait Gallery right now

09:29the renowned artist Ken Doan

09:36I can't imagine how nervous the artists must feel like actually painting you yeah well I don't know it's just another bloke

09:51now Ken your personal item is a shell do you want to talk to us about why you brought this

10:06this is a shell from the Caribbean and this shell it's got a bit of paint on it I like shells I like underwater I like the structure of the shell

10:09we've got a lot of young artists here and up and coming ones what advice would you give them I don't sit in front of something and try and paint what it looks like I'm more about what it feels like although presumably with a portrait it would need to be reasonably

10:27you know what my head looks like what my head looks like I'm more about what it looks like I'm more about what it feels like I'm more about what it feels like I'm more about what it feels like although presumably with a portrait it would need to be reasonably you know what my head looks like

10:42well thanks Ken thanks very much for joining us we really appreciate it

10:46now I would not want to be seen on the dance floor with this next guest she is an absolute triple threat who has won five championship titles in salsa and commercial dance can you please welcome the yellow wiggle Sahai Hawkins

11:04I love your makeup thank you nice to meet you nice to meet you nice to meet you yeah what's your name I'm Jamie nice to meet you Jamie nice to meet you all hi guys

11:27now what have you brought for your item today this is the book that my mum made me my adoption story so just shows me everything about Ethiopia and my dancing and pretty much my life up to the age of six so it's very close to my heart

11:45that is so gorgeous well we hope to have a beautiful portrait of you by the end of the day thank you I'm very very excited to see the portrait

11:57while our sitters won't see their portraits until the four hours are complete

12:04they will get to choose their favorite to take home

12:08artists your challenge is about to begin

12:12you have four hours to create your portraits

12:17and your time starts

12:21now

12:23good luck

12:33good day everyone

12:34how are you feeling

12:35good good

12:36I mean this is definitely out of my comfort zone but I'm so excited

12:39so nice to meet you

12:40me too nice to meet you

12:41I'd love to just take some photos of you

12:43is that alright

12:44thank you

12:47thank you love

12:48thanks Jasmine

12:49I love the colour of your dress by the way

12:51well

12:52that

12:53that's right

12:56may I take your photo Ken

12:58whatever you want

13:00okay

13:01perfect

13:02thank you Ken

13:04our nine artists must create portraits in their own unique style using any medium they choose

13:11do I have to put the bowl in?

13:13is it compulsory?

13:15whether or not they include the sitters personal object is up to them

13:19I do things a bit differently

13:21yes

13:22so my portraits I capture like your animal persona

13:26so

13:27okay

13:28so I guess I'll just ask you a few questions

13:30yes

13:31how like how would you describe yourself in three words

13:34I'm a cook

13:36I'm obsessive

13:38um

13:39I love life

13:40did you say I love wine?

13:42life

13:43life

13:44okay

13:45wine as well

13:46me too

13:47for a spot in the semi-final it's not just about technique

13:52the judges are looking for a piece of work that captures the spirit of the sitter

13:57are you a mess sir?

14:09yeah

14:10maybe out of the splash zone

14:12let's hope

14:14Daniel Butterworth is an accomplished artist from Melbourne

14:18and was an Archibald finalist in 2016

14:21despite his global success

14:24Daniel still paints on used cardboard with house paints

14:29purchased at his local hardware store

14:33I'm a bit of a connoisseur of cardboard

14:35can I ask what was in this box then?

14:37yeah KTM motorbike

14:38oh really?

14:39yeah

14:40yeah

14:41so

14:42I was working at this motorbike shop

14:44it was a young artist and I couldn't afford canvases anymore

14:47that's when I started painting on cardboard

14:50but yeah

14:51you don't need much

14:52there's as many different ways to paint as there are people in the world

14:56and you've worked so quickly

14:58how do you plan on like pacing out the four hours

15:00or do you think that you'll be finished earlier?

15:02I probably will be finished earlier

15:05oh man can't wait

15:06ah thank you

15:07I won't shake your hand, have a look at it

15:09yeah

15:10hmm

15:23let's paint Ken

15:27okay

15:28Lottie Ray is from the country town of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales

15:36formerly the owner of the local cafe

15:39she traded her apron for a paintbrush

15:42to follow her artistic aspirations

15:44she now has an online store where her paintings often sell out within minutes

15:49you're gonna ask about the milk crate

15:52no

15:53well I normally paint on the floor

15:55at like in my studio

15:56yeah

15:57I'll sit on the floor to paint

15:58and um

15:59when these guys asked if I wanted an easel

16:01I said yes

16:02but then I panicked

16:03and I was like I've never used an easel

16:05ever

16:06so I was like oh

16:07a milk crate will do

16:08low stress

16:10so what's your first steps normally?

16:14oh

16:15depends on the day

16:16I don't know

16:17portraits aren't my bread and butter

16:19I've only done maybe three in my life

16:22but I've got a real thing for nostalgic Australia

16:25and I was very excited when um

16:28they said Ken Doan

16:29that was awesome

16:30so it's pretty cool

16:31yeah

16:32still got one of your pillow slips from the 80s Ken on the bed

16:35thank you

16:36do you reckon you'll have a go at the cardigan?

16:38yeah for sure

16:39look at this palette

16:41as if that's not Ken's palette

16:43yeah

16:44that's awesome

16:51how does this feel Maggie?

16:53feels surreal

16:55I'm usually the doer

16:57yeah

16:59and not painting

17:00that's right

17:01of course

17:05I'm so interested to see what's happening here

17:07but I don't want to ask too many questions

17:08I don't want to give the game away for Maggie

17:10but

17:12without being too cryptic

17:14yeah

17:15so I kind of um

17:16prompted Maggie with a few questions

17:18okay okay

17:19um

17:20to get a feel for who she was

17:22so

17:23I've gone with

17:25ah

17:26okay okay okay

17:27okay okay

17:28yeah

17:29shhhh

17:30shhh

17:33ssssshh

17:35Shhh

17:36top secret

17:37Maggie don't have a jump scare when I turn the canvas around

17:39Jasmine Forcadea balances art alongside her fashion marketing career

17:43and playing professional basketball.

17:46She focuses on painting character rather than likeness

17:50and her self-portrait using acrylics

17:53expresses what it means to be comfortable in her own skin.

17:57Maggie, do you have a favourite food?

17:59Oh yes, sea urchin.

18:01Oh!

18:02And second favourite would be any offal you could give me.

18:06Any what?

18:06Awful.

18:08Brain, sweetbread, super hot.

18:10Oh yes, delicious.

18:22It's so cool.

18:23I think I found the shot, although that one's got...

18:37I am feeling a lot of pressure to make the right choice very quickly.

18:46The image is the number one and I'm not very good at making decisions at the best of time.

18:52So, you've got this and it's going to be okay.

18:55It will be.

18:56It will be.

18:57Just pick one!

19:01Jamie Paul is a high school art teacher and a passionate animal activist.

19:06She works almost exclusively with black and white watercolour.

19:11Her self-portrait took 70 hours to complete.

19:14Hi, Jamie.

19:18Hello, how are you going?

19:19Good, how are you going?

19:22I'm deeply in decision mode, so I've lost, I've lost time.

19:28Yeah.

19:29This is a really short, compressed project.

19:32Yes.

19:32But the most important thing is to get Sahai's essence, right?

19:36I know likeness is your thing.

19:37Yeah.

19:38But let those shoulders relax because you know they need to to get this portrait done.

19:41Exactly.

19:42Okay, well, all right.

19:44I'm rooting for you.

19:56Artist, you are one hour down.

19:59We have three hours to go.

20:03Really?

20:03Wow.

20:04That was quick, eh?

20:06For me anyway, I'm not sure about you.

20:11Okay, who are you feeling is the most ahead, I suppose?

20:18Yeah, Daniel got a lot of paint on the cardboard very, very quickly.

20:23He's working with house paint, he's working on cardboard.

20:26So I'm quite interested to see what happens.

20:30Lottie, she's not the most naturalistic painter, but there is an energy in what she's doing.

20:36And the painting that's happening in the room today, I'm finding very exciting.

20:42Jasmine's actually gone interesting.

20:44I'm actually getting a little bit Egyptian mythology with these person-animal hybrids

20:48that Jasmine's bringing through.

20:50Yeah, this is an interesting choice.

20:52Can she get the animal to feel like Maggie?

20:55That will be the question.

20:59We've got a manual painting in coffee.

21:02I don't know if the blend makes a difference, but how's he going?

21:05Well, it smells great.

21:06It does smell great.

21:07That's really nice.

21:09Coffee is just one element.

21:10Symbols are really important for Emmanuel, so we'll see some nice symbols come through

21:14in the finished work.

21:20Now, Jamie is a little behind.

21:24I've made this so hard for myself.

21:26Yeah, and Jamie's work takes time, so we are in trouble here.

21:32Now, Natalie, does she have an advantage because she is a live wedding painter?

21:40I would say absolutely she has an advantage because she's just used to the fact that sitters

21:45aren't necessarily going to stay still for very long.

21:47Yeah, what will be interesting with Natalie is she builds up layers.

21:51There's some gold leaf coming.

21:52She's got plaster on her stand.

21:55She really understands colour, bright colour, and that is bringing out all of Sahai's wonderful

22:00personality, and she's making a really beautiful painting.

22:03Oh, thank you.

22:04Hello.

22:06I think you're my dream sitter.

22:08Oh, so happy to be painting you today.

22:10Oh, thank you.

22:11Oh, my gosh.

22:12I remember when you were announced as the yellow Wiggle, and the public persona with Wiggles is

22:18obviously very happy, very joyful.

22:20Would you say that's how you are as well?

22:22Oh, absolutely.

22:23As you can tell, when we talk, we've been very energetic.

22:25Very bubbly.

22:26Yeah.

22:27So, so amazing.

22:28Oh, thank you.

22:30Natalie Ding is a live wedding painter in Sydney.

22:34Her self-portrait took 18 months to complete and incorporates acrylics,

22:40oil paints, pastels, gold leaves, and glitter.

22:46Hi there, Natalie.

22:47How are things going?

22:48Hello, Rob.

22:49Things are going well.

22:50I'm just blocking the colours at the moment.

22:52Yeah, fantastic.

22:52This is what we call the ugly stage.

22:54It doesn't look ugly to me, I have to say.

22:56It's beautiful.

22:56It's full of colour.

22:58That yellow and the purple, complementary colours.

23:01Is that, are you thinking about these things as you go, or is it instinct?

23:04Instinct, along with theory, of course.

23:07Fantastic.

23:07Like, cooler colours at the back, warmer colours at the front to bring the person forward.

23:12Yeah.

23:12Kind of sort of looks like someone, so that's a good sign.

23:2762-year-old Hiroshi Yoshino, a hairstylist originally from Japan, only started painting seven years ago.

23:38Hiroshi paints from life, taking no photos, and his self-portrait was done in his bathroom,

23:44using a mirror as his reference.

23:45So you started quite quickly.

23:49You've got a lot of paint on straight away, and you've got the form really quickly.

23:52Yeah, it's a great sitter, first of all.

23:54Yeah, he's been, he's a very professional sitter.

23:55Yeah, that's great.

23:56I don't see any difference between cutting hair and the painting.

24:00My answer is always, I use the highest technology ever developed, which is our eyes.

24:06That is, that makes sense, that makes sense.

24:24Do you drink coffee?

24:26Um, surprisingly, I don't really drink coffee.

24:28I'm assuming you're a big coffee drinker.

24:31Do you have a certain coffee order?

24:32Cappuccino.

24:34I love it.

24:35I used to say I had a hot chocolate to keep myself brown.

24:38Some people didn't know how to react to the joke.

24:44Emmanuel Asante is an art teacher and public speaker living in Western Sydney.

24:50His self-portrait, titled Waiting is Wasting, was inspired by refugees in detention centres.

25:01Emmanuel, brother, how are you, man?

25:03Good, I've been good. How have you been?

25:04Oh, very good.

25:05I've seen you work with oil paint, with acrylic paint, with pencil, all sorts of things.

25:10What is different about working with coffee? Like, what makes it harder or easier?

25:15Um, what makes the coffee harder is it's always wet, sticky, shiny, so you don't know when it's dry.

25:21So, in order to draw across, you might smudge it.

25:23Oh.

25:24So that's a little bit of a challenge.

25:25What do you think for the background?

25:27Um, I'm thinking of using the colours in the background, but I'm going to incorporate like symbols from a culture.

25:34Okay, awesome.

25:35Okay, we are halfway.

25:39Two hours to go.

25:40Two hours to go.

25:40Oh, my God.

25:42Two hours to go.

25:52Wait, I'm nailing this.

25:53even I'm shocked I feel like that looks like Ken it's got it Ken's vibe I like the pink in it and

26:02the eyes look good but yeah the body's scaring me I'm excited for the cardigan the cardigan

26:09will be cool I don't usually paint this fast so it's interesting to see all the colors like mixing

26:18them together I've made this so hard for myself I wanted to already be started on my canvas board

26:27by now trying not to be stressed I think I'm done can I turn around and show you Maggie no as much as

26:42I would love that dad Daniel I hear you're finished yes I am yes all done all done I feel it's at a

26:50point where if I keep working it'll start to look labored if you're a fast painter yes I mean it's

26:55competition you've got an hour and a half to go yep what about doing another one love to you want to

27:00give it another go let's give it another go best one forward absolutely yeah I think that's a fantastic

27:03idea let's try that beautiful thank you my toe I'm gonna do another one of you man I might try a full

27:15figure beautiful thank you

27:33not the first time I've been painted but at my age in this time of the day the danger is falling asleep

27:41I'm not gonna do very tempting

27:45hi Ken because you've had such an amazing career is there any bucket list items you still want to

27:51tick off look I've always wanted to do an aircraft carrier be amazing I like to do all the planes like

27:59parrots very bright how long would it take to paint an aircraft carrier in one of your designs

28:03probably longer than I've got left what are you hoping to see from the paintings do you have a preferred

28:09style or well look it's always what the painter feels about you and of course I can see them from

28:17this side I can see how hard they worked I can understand some of the decisions that they had to

28:24make was it on purpose to wear a very complicated cardigan just to make it a little harder for the

28:27artists or I wanted to give them a bit of color I wanted to see how they might handle it but I

28:33I can't wait to see the end result

28:35I'm stressing out

28:39I'm gonna have nightmares out of this bloody cardigan

28:43Jimmy May is an established tattoo artist and musician

28:50his self-portrait was created with oils on canvas after attending art school in Florence

29:00hi Jimmy hello tell me about why you chose this pose Ken's looking quite haughty here

29:06yeah as soon as he walked into the room I sort of got that like stoic vibe from him so I wanted to

29:12portray that boss man singer artist yeah don't mess it up kids yeah okay I look forward to seeing how it

29:18comes together thank you

29:31hi Maggie how are you holding up I'm doing really well I assume it's just art's very similar to cooking in that the results are very subjective like the taste buds like yes absolutely I'm a very selfish person I cook to please myself

29:43nice I've always thought if I love something everyone else is going to love it

29:49have you ever done like flavors that you thought would work and then we're like that not this my very first ice cream I did was bitter almond and quince and I thought everyone would love it

29:59yeah right and it didn't run thanks for coming we really appreciate it

30:05I love the work that you do oh thank you I really do I might get you to record it on my phone so I can see it to my parents if that's okay

30:11I am well behind what I usually would be I'm hoping like within the next hour it should start to look

30:23um less like a blob

30:27is all I'm gonna promise I'm sorry

30:29I'm not calling you that

30:31I'm sorry

30:33Vaughn Roberts is an emerging artist from Perth

30:37his submission using acrylics and charcoal reflects the rare vulnerability he felt completing this self-portrait

30:45yeah

30:47things are coming out now I'm starting to see you're really working into that surface you've got some chalk here

30:52yeah

30:53how are you feeling about it

30:54I'm okay I just want to try and really start to exaggerate some of the tones and the shadows now and

31:00start to really try and make a pop and give it some life

31:03I think I'll be happy enough to show you

31:06I look forward to it

31:09please don't yell at me

31:11okay next step

31:21first strike

31:26hello

31:27today

31:28how are you holding up so high

31:29I'm doing well

31:30I'm very happy that you're here to chat with me because I think that no talking for a little bit

31:34I wasn't so great with it

31:35do you want me asking a bit more about the book

31:37yes

31:38my mum made it for me actually

31:39oh wow

31:40this is my mum here Robin

31:41hi

31:42hi

31:43tell me and say hi

31:44welcome welcome

31:45hi

31:46might be a silly question but is there a favourite part of the book or a bit that really means something to you

31:49um

31:50I think a lot of my favourite parts of the books are like for example this page with my dad

31:54I love just seeing the candid photos of us but also my parents visited Ethiopia a few times before they adopted me

32:01so there's a bunch of photos of me so there's a bunch of photos of that these are me with a lot of the other children that were adopted so we've got a lot of stories

32:08now are we thinking a sequel what are we going to make it a trilogy how many books are going to be

32:12yeah

32:13that's enough

32:14that's been

32:15I spent a lot of time doing that

32:16okay right

32:17my mum hasn't written one book about me

32:19so if you're watching this mum please get on to that

32:21yeah

32:23artists we've got one hour to go

32:25I'm excited I don't know about you three

32:33this is wild man I can't wait to see this one too

32:36just a bit of fun with the fabric

32:38really the pressures off on the second one

32:40you'd think wouldn't you

32:41yeah I guess I guess

32:47someone better check Ken's pulse

32:50he hasn't moved for a while

32:55I've done it all today in a very rushed way

33:00but it's not looking too bad

33:02biggest challenge with black and white

33:05is once I put a layer down

33:08it's hard to take it away

33:10so it's a dance between not enough water and too much water and hoping you don't make a puddle

33:17you're good Vaughan

33:27um I don't know mate

33:29you're fighting that is it a fight

33:31I think so yeah

33:32just make sure you win hey

33:34I'm sorry to interrupt

33:35um I'm so sorry to tell you this but it's upside down

33:49um

33:51do you want to tell me why it's upside down?

33:53by turning a painting upside down

33:56you see this is not like a head

33:59it's just a patterns

34:01right

34:02that's another way of seeing it

34:03yeah

34:04did you try um keeping yours the same way

34:06and asking Ken Doan to stand on his head?

34:08that was a very very difficult thing

34:11yeah

34:14artists you have ten minutes to go

34:17ten minutes

34:18just one tiny bit of gold leaf left

34:34which are you going with?

34:36I don't know

34:37hard decision

34:39there's something about both of them that I really enjoy

34:48but I still like your head

34:52so I think I'm going to go with the head

34:53oh

34:56should we sign it?

34:57do we sign it?

34:58I guess you could always sign afterwards if you wanted to

35:00yeah yeah yeah yeah

35:01don't waste your time on your signature

35:03yeah

35:04artist your time is up

35:18please step away from your easels

35:26I can finally move again I feel pretty good

35:29I actually feel a little bit stiff but I can start wiggling a little bit now

35:32I've got my wiggle boots on so I'm definitely ready to do it

35:35yeah

35:40yeah

35:46before the judges choose today's winner to progress to the semi-final

35:51the sitters will get to pick their favourite portrait to take home

35:55hello Maggie

35:56thank you so much for sitting for four hours

35:58are you ready for the reveal?

36:00okay

36:01let me get serious here

36:03glasses on

36:05artist can you please turn your results

36:07go

36:09oh

36:14oh my god

36:23I'm laughing with you

36:24oh my goodness me

36:28Warren

36:30you've got me more elegant than I am

36:33you know I love that long neck I've always wanted one

36:37but you have my eyes

36:41there's that little twinkle

36:44yep yep

36:45yep

36:46yep

36:47Daniel

36:49I love the boldness

36:51I love that

36:53in your face

36:55it is

36:57it is

36:58and uh

36:59Jasmine who's gone for a realistic one for one

37:01the blue eyes I get the blue eyes

37:07I can't quite decide what the animal is

37:11it's a lioness

37:12a lioness

37:13a lioness

37:14oh well I'm glad of that

37:15I hope I have something of the lioness in me

37:18I do a bit of roaring

37:20about things that are really important to me

37:24so I really love that

37:26I really love that

37:27thank you

37:29Maggie now is the hardest bit

37:32you have to pick a favourite

37:33they're also incredibly different

37:39but

37:41Dad

37:43I'm totally blown away

37:45this is what I hope I look like

37:47but I don't think I do

37:49well done Daniel

37:55congratulations

37:56thank you

38:02hi Sahai

38:03hi

38:04are you ready

38:05I am more than ready to see the paintings

38:07I'm so excited

38:11okay artists

38:13if you could turn your portraits now

38:19oh my gosh

38:22these are so cool

38:23no way

38:26I love this

38:31I'm obsessed with the glitter

38:33the colour

38:34like how like

38:35it's definitely my energy

38:36in a photo

38:38thank you

38:39that is so cool

38:40and you've got the blue earrings

38:41absolutely

38:42I love this so much

38:45oh my gosh

38:46I still can't believe that this is like

38:47actual coffee

38:48like that blows my mind

38:50you definitely got the afro down pat for sure

38:53I love all the patterns

38:54this is all the cultural stuff right

38:56yeah that that's very

38:57it's home to me

38:58I love it

39:01you nailed this

39:03I love the black and white

39:04it's so realistic

39:05and I love just the pop of colour on the top

39:07and the earrings

39:08it's really yellow

39:09oh I love this so much

39:11that is like

39:13that is so cool

39:14cool aren't I

39:15well you're now going to have to make the tough decision

39:18which one is your favourite

39:20can you guys give me a drum roll

39:21but like with wiggle fingers

39:22it'll fill me in

39:23oh

39:25and my favourite is

39:28Jamie's

39:29thank you

39:30thank you

39:31thank you

39:32thank you

39:33thank you

39:34thank you

39:35thank you

39:36thank you

39:37thank you

39:38thank you

39:39thank you

39:42Ken

39:43are you excited?

39:44look

39:45I'm leaning forward

39:46with a very high degree of expectation

39:49I've seen them all working

39:51they've all been working very hard

39:53so I can't wait to see what they've actually done

39:56alright

39:57with that said

39:58artist would you mind please turning your easels

40:06are clever people

40:14would you like to get up and have a look?

40:16I would

40:21yeah

40:22very strong

40:23very positive

40:24good handling of this jacket

40:27very complicated

40:31yeah nice picture

40:32thank you

40:34the nose is ahead of the ears

40:37so it has that dimension

40:39that you talked about

40:40yeah

40:44yeah you've handled the

40:45Missoni Cardi in a very interesting way

40:47good

40:48you're a clever boy

40:49thank you

40:51you're a clever boy

40:52thank you

41:00oh god I'll be so nervous

41:01yeah well look

41:02I think they're all great

41:07but if I have to choose one

41:10it's this one

41:11it looks good

41:12thank you

41:14it looks good

41:15thank you

41:17it looks good

41:18thank you

41:19thank you

41:23now the sitters have chosen their favourite artworks

41:26it's up to the judges to evaluate today's nine portraits

41:30and choose one artist to go through to the semi-final

41:34we had a really interesting day in this pod with Sihai

41:39so let's talk about Natalie

41:41today you know she's created I think a dynamic and exciting portrait of somebody who is absolutely full of life and energy

41:49it does capture Sihai's public persona in a really beautiful way which is how people know her

41:55it was quite joyful to watch this work come together

41:57I think that's a great word Brie like joyful I think this is a joyful picture

42:01and I think there is a spirit in here which I feel really captures Sihai

42:06Jamie she's managed to achieve a good likeness in a modest scale

42:12I would say it's unfinished

42:14I think she's captured Sihai's gentle energy in a really lovely way

42:20and I think with more time we would see an absolutely delightful portrait

42:24I think Emmanuel is really really talented

42:29but I don't know if today was his day

42:32the work is quite small and I think there's a really good likeness

42:36but I think he had the capacity to go quite a bit bigger

42:39he could have been a little bit more ambitious

42:41in terms of likeness Jimmy's definitely got the haughtiness of Ken or the you know the senior artist is definitely present and I suspect Jimmy was a touch intimidated by Ken

43:02well that's at least what's coming through in the portrait

43:04I think Jimmy is really good at hands

43:07yes

43:08he's a hands specialist

43:09you're right the hands are forward

43:11Jimmy's a good technician

43:13there's a lot going on here

43:15but there's not a lot of warmth

43:17Lottie is a kind of painter whose work you need to see in person

43:24the way that she creates texture

43:26Ken brought a shell in today didn't he as his object

43:28now I actually think we see that in a funny way that spirit of the reef

43:33I see sails of a ship so familiar in Ken's work in the markings of his cardigan

43:38there's something kind of maritime and sea like about the colour

43:42she has an innate ability to know how to put form and colour together to make a really compelling picture

43:49Hiroshi was telling me that he wanted to really privilege the face

43:53so for him the cardigan was really secondary

43:57he didn't take advantage of all the colours in the space

44:00didn't take advantage necessarily of Ken and his personality

44:04I think it's a lovely portrait but not ambitious enough for me

44:11Jasmine, Daniel and Vaughan had the magnificent opportunity to paint Maggie Beer

44:16I think we can see in the way that Vaughan has handled Maggie's hair that he has a really deft touch

44:23with this delicate medium of chalk and charcoal

44:27but overall the proportions and the likeness just fall short

44:32Daniel, he did two portraits today

44:36yes

44:38and he has selected the first

44:40I think the second painting was better

44:42there was something more for me of the spirit in Maggie

44:46but there's a lot of technical proficiency here that I'm enjoying

44:50and that gritty realism capturing a fleshy likeness

44:54I like that he's not interested in flattering his subject

44:57yes

44:59and look at that earring, it's quite a complicated object

45:01but then just with a few marks he's emulated that and that just says Maggie's earring

45:05I think he's done a really wonderful job

45:08bold choice of the day has to go to Jasmine

45:13Jasmine chose to paint Maggie in a feline form

45:18and took the quite surprising step of not even showing Maggie's face

45:22but instead replacing that with the head of a lioness

45:26there were some interesting choices made like giving Maggie bare feet when she didn't have bare feet

45:30these types of things really separate the painting from the person

45:33it's an interesting and cool and funny painting

45:36but it's not necessarily Maggie beer

45:38how far can you stretch a portrait?

45:40I'd say this is

45:42stretchy

45:44maybe just a little too stretchy

45:51Before announcing the winner of today's heat

45:54the judges will reveal their top three portraits of the day

45:58Congratulations, you survived the day and created a wonderful variety of work

46:07The judges have looked at your portraits and have chosen their top three

46:11top three

46:13the first artist is

46:19Daniel

46:30The second artist is

46:32Lottie

46:43and the third artist chosen is

46:49Natalie

46:54It's time for the artist to discover who will have the chance to paint a life-changing commission

47:14to hang in the National Portrait Gallery

47:17Daniel, Lottie, Natalie

47:20Congratulations on getting this far in the competition

47:23but only one person can go forward

47:26The artist chosen demonstrated the ability to tell a story in their painting

47:30a strong connection to the sitter

47:32and ultimately the judges just found it a really compelling piece of work

47:35and that artist is

47:38Lottie

47:41Lottie

47:43What?

47:45Thank you

47:47What the hell?

47:50Lottie struck gold today

47:52She was up against some real professionals

47:54but her application of paint was really fantastic

47:57Lottie's was a little bit more of an adventure

47:59and the spark and energy that she created

48:02for me it was an obvious choice

48:03Great birthday

48:04Thank you, beautiful

48:05I appreciate it

48:07Thank you

48:09Thank you, thank you so much

48:11Thanks guys

48:12I'm very shocked

48:14It's a win for country kids

48:16We don't get anything like this where we are

48:19If there's little kids out there in the bush that want to have a crack

48:22they can too because I certainly wasn't expecting to clean this up

48:26Next time

48:41Marco Pomeres

48:45Are you as critical of other things as you are of film?

48:48Pretty critical of everything

48:50Mark Cole Smith

48:52I think you're used to pouting for the camera

48:57I don't know what you mean

48:59Oh, the blue steel

49:01The fabulous Courtney Act

49:07Which artist will take the next spot

49:10This is a window into a story that I really want to climb through and see

49:14In the semi-final

49:16They're beautiful

49:18Oh, oh, oh

49:21I'm

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