Angus McDonald has won the People's Choice award for the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Marcia Langton.
Angus McDonald has won the People's Choice award for the 2024 Archibald Prize for his portrait of writer and academic Marcia Langton, one of the architects of the Voice to Parliament."For me, it's more about a tribute to someone who's spent over 50 years fighting and having small victories, but also dealing with disappointments along the way, including some of them that are a little bit bigger, especially the Voice last year," he tells ABC Arts.
In his artist statement, he explains that he placed her to the right of centre "to suggest a sense of stepping away and handing the baton to a younger group of activists after a lifetime of tireless commitment. She gazes up and to the left to reflect that she has persistently followed her own path". "It's great to think after all this time I can still make work that can touch people and resonate with them."Langton is the seventh Indigenous sitter to feature in a People's Choice award-winning portrait. It's not her first time being painted for the prize either — a portrait of her by Sam Leach was a finalist in the 2009 Archibald Prize.
The conversations they shared — about everything from her life and the public criticism she's faced, to how to have a better work-life balance — have blossomed into a friendship. "In the last few years, I've more specifically chosen people that are involved in social change," he says.
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