00:01I've known Iluwanteng for the last six years and we share the same gallery and we've been in a lot
00:08of shows together so like after meeting her for that long I decided to paint her I thought she'd be
00:13a great sitter I wanted to shine a light onto her and I wanted to go out to community go
00:20to a home learn about her and her family and she very kindly sort of accepted that and it's really
00:26humbling experience just to be able to paint her and to
00:29to show people who Iluwanteng is it was really hot it was like 46 47 degrees it is you know
00:37like it's a complicated place I've been out to country probably six or seven times now but they've probably been
00:42the most rewarding things that I've done or and but at the same time they are confronting but I wanted
00:50to actually paint her in her home and her environment was important it's so great that she's here she had
00:55a special orange hat that she was going to wear and she wore the t-shirt last night to
00:59bed just for good luck so that was amazing my heart was beating so fast I sort of thought it
01:04was going to explode I sort of sort of had to calm myself down and the director said you know
01:09you've got to settle yourself here you've got a got a few commitments that you've got to do so it
01:13was pretty overwhelming but it's nothing but the sort of love in the gallery and people are just you know
01:18like it is a you know like an otherworldly experience but it's been incredible
01:23I'm going to build a studio in the backyard of my house so like I've wanted to build one for
01:28a little while and I just think that's going to be a great use of the money and like studios
01:33where I hang out most of the time so it's it's perfect
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