It looks so real you’ll want to touch it. Don’t. You will get arrested. Unless that’s your goal, then go right ahead.
Disclaimer: The Brag are not condoning any illegal behavior.
Sydney artist and Archibald Prize veteran Nick Stathopoulos is the winner of the 2016 Archibald Prize People’s Choice award with hishyper-real portrait ofSudanese refugee and lawyer, Deng Adut. Come check it out, it looks super real, you’ll wig the fk out. Stathopoulos said the portrait took more than four months to complete – more time than he has ever spent on any single painting. Wow.
Stathopoulos first heard of Adult through a video promotion for Western Sydney University, where Adut was a graduate. It documented Deng’s childhood and experience as a child soldier in Sudan and his journey fleeing the country before he put himself through law school and became a formidable refugee advocate and community leader.
Adut said he’s humbled that the Australian public chose the portrait to win the People’s Choice Award for 2016.
The 2016 Archibald Prize People’s Choice Award winning portraitis now onview
until Sunday October 9 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. For more info and tix click here.
