Home is pleased to announce we will be exhibiting this self-portrait work by Natasha Walsh in our Invitational show opening on Wednesday the 11th of July.

Self-Portrait, 2016, oil on copper, was a finalist in the 2016 Archibald Prize.

Natasha completed her Masters at NAS in 2016-17 and has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize three times, including her work ‘Numb to touch (self-portrait)’ in 2018. Natasha Walsh is represented by Dominik Mersch in Sydney

“…in her recent self-portraits the artist’s examines her own mortality. An inevitable result of working from life, intensely observing the passing of the present as it manifests itself upon her own directly reflected face. The copper support evokes the fluctuating nature of her subject matter as it is highly responsive to change until sealed by the layers of paint…”from the moment that I prepare the surface, it begins to naturally oxidise. Different pigments changed colour in response to this process and the painting visibly ages as I worked on it…”