00:00This is house paint, so the same paint that you would paint your walls with, all acrylic water-based paints.
00:07It's beautiful paint. I love how much the volume of it I can use.
00:11When I was using oil paints, I was restricted.
00:15It all began on discussions of exhibitions in the city,
00:19and Daniel was telling us all about how he exhibits in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne,
00:24and all the challenges that go with that.
00:26And somewhere in all those discussions, we said,
00:29why don't we have an exhibition of your work out here in southwest Queensland in Roma?
00:36It's a beautiful gallery.
00:37The plan was that it would be portraits of people across the Maranoa,
00:41so we had to take photographs of 70-odd people and send the photograph to Daniel.
00:48That's all he needed was a mug shot taken with a mobile phone,
00:52and he had to choose 30, because we knew that 30 would fit in this gallery.
00:57It's a collaboration between Creative Injun, our art group in Injun,
01:01and the Roma on Bungle Gallery.
01:03And I think the greatest thing is that it's people who would not normally get their photographs or their portraits
01:10done,
01:10and, you know, we've chosen people who have won Citizen of the Year in the Shires,
01:16and people who we know would love to have their portrait done but would never otherwise.
01:22It's wonderful for people to see somebody, an artist of that calibre,
01:28who's a full-time professional artist,
01:31to have them come here and actually sit and talk to everybody and people asking questions.
01:38I mean, we had an amazing collection of questions from the floor of people who do art, are interested in
01:45art.
01:45I left university, was still painting with oils on canvas,
01:48and I started a young family,
01:50and I couldn't afford the canvas anymore,
01:54because I was, you know, it was either food for my family or paint.
01:58And it was a toss-up, it was, but...
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