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Natasha WalshThe Gaze (self-portrait after Klimt), 2021oil on copper35 x 35 cm / 79 x 79 cm
Sitter: Natasha Walsh
Reference: Gustave Klimt, Danaë (1907–1908)
2021 Moran Prize Semi-Finalist
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Natasha WalshThe Voyeur (formerly Untitled), 2023oil on copper60 x 60 cm / 79.5 x 78.5 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Sitter: Natasha Walsh
Reference: Egon Schiele, The Hermits (Self-portrait with Gustav Klimt) (1912) -
Natasha WalshThe Yellow Odalisque of Brunswick, 2024oil on copper53.4 x 50 cm / 72 x 68 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Sitter: Atong Atem
Reference: Henri Matisse, Yellow Odalisque (1937) -
Natasha WalshOur Nude, 2024oil on copper45 x 60 cm / 64.5 x 78 cm (framed)
Sitter: Bri Lee
Reference: Pablo Picasso
Le Rêve, 1932
Three Women at the Spring, 1921
Large Bather, 1921
Two Nudes, 1906
La Lecture, 1932
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Natasha WalshThe Marriage of Nicol and Ford, 2023oil on copper38 x 50 cm
Sitters: Katie Ford and Lilian Nicol
Reference: Artist unknown, Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs (c.1954)
Finalist in the 2024 Archibald Prize
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Natasha WalshPrincess of the Pink Plastic Hand-Held Fan, 2023oil on copper36.5 x 30 cm
Sitter: Louise Zhang
Reference: James Whistler, The Princess from the Land of Porcelain (La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine) (1863-65)
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Natasha Walsh‘I Blak with white bespott by totems ænd Country y whyt with flannel flower honour our stories: Ancestours’, 2023-24oil on copper27.5 x 30 cm / 44.5 x 46.5 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Sitters: Brenda L Croft and Prue Hazelgrove, with Aunty Matilda House (Ngambri People)
Reference: unknown 17th century painter, Double portrait of two women with face patches (c.1650)
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Natasha WalshDamsel in distress, 2023-24oil on copper15 x 15 cm (each) / 31 x 31 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Sitter: Gracie Otto
Reference: Roy Lichtenstein, I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It! (1961), Tension (1964), M-Maybe (1965).
Lichenstein’s reference: Tony Abruzzo, ‘TROOPER!…I CAN SEE THE WHOLE ROOM!….AND THERE’S NOBODY IN IT!’, Scene of tension between a man and a woman, ‘M-MAYBE HE BECAME ILL — AND COULDN’T LEAVE THE STUDIO! I’LL GO SEE!’ (1950-60).
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Natasha WalshMedusa enshrined, 2023-24oil on copper26 x 18 cm / 43.5 x 34.5 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Sitter: Montaigne
Reference: Federico da Montefeltro and Piero della Francesca, Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza (1467–1472)
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Natasha WalshPortrait of a Young Medusa, 2023-24oil on copper26 x 18 cm / 43.5 x 34.5 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Sitter: Montaigne
Reference: Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Piero del Pollaiuolo, Profile Portrait of a Young Lady (1465)
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Natasha WalshVenus with mirror glimpses her mortal self, 2024oil on copper24.6 x 21.4 cm / 42 x 37.5 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Sitter: Tsering Hannaford
Reference: Titian, Venus with a Mirror (1555)
The Penitent Magdalene (1531–1535) -
Natasha WalshHysteria in the studio, 2024oil on copper50 x 55 cm
Reference: Matisse, The Red Studio (1911)
Brett Whiteley, Self portrait in the studio (1976)