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Darling Portrait Prize 2024 Finalist
Técha Noble
born Australia 1977, Berlin from 2016
Lyndal 2023
oil on canvas
‘With this portrait, I am interested in how the subject might appear to both transcend time and be embodied within the contemporary moment. Lyndal Walker’s physicality possesses this potential for me. Lyndal has a deep connection to experiencing time; in her artistic practice, she is a photographer, but also an avid diary keeper, and is currently studying ancestral healing. For this portrait, I drew on painterly references from early modernism that depict the female subject with a particular liminality between night and day, masculinity and femininity, and the boundaries of the body and what we define as nature.’
Técha Noble is a Berlin-based Australian artist who works at the intersection of painting, drawing, textiles, set design and live performance. As both a solo artist and with the art collective The Kingpins, her work has explored ideas around gender, identity and the body.
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The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG.
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