Don’t Change a Hair 2021
Working with watercolour is tricky, it takes the rug from under you. I like the buzz I get working directly from a model, its like performance. In this case the model was still, a life-size sculpture I made from a mannequin and a real hair wig from a recent series, The Long Shot. I called it, Ah Man, a hybrid of Irish and Chinese descent, a bushranger in a dress, a her/him/they. I tried to repeat the same portrait over and over, but it didn't work out like that, instead I ended up with a mob of ancestors; brothers, sisters, black sheep and throwbacks.
