A portrait rejected by the Archibald Prize judges has scooped this year’s Darling Prize.
Fast-forward 12 months and the same work has scooped thethe same work. McKenna made a small revision in the interim, adding a tiny owl perched on a fence to the original scene.Credit:
The winning portrait is instantly recognisable as the work of McKenna, who won the 1994 Sulman Prize and has been a regular finalist in all the major prizes in his long career. The subject is his long-time agent and friend William Nuttall, depicted in a field with some of his horses. “I liked it as a painting but one’s own view of work doesn’t always correspond with that of the judges, of course. So it’s always sort of a nice serendipity when they like what you like.”Horses and dogs feature regularly in McKenna’s spare, angular paintings reflecting his passion for animals.
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