Original painting · Oil on linen
Self Portrait II
Finalist - Archibald Prize
The painter, a few years on, in the same quiet light. Painted to find out who was looking.
Not for sale
This painting stays with the artist. Marcus takes on a small number of portrait commissions each year.
Marcus Callum
Marcus Callum is an internationally recognised painter of realist portraits and expressive abstracts. Winner of the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize and the Black Swan Portrait Prize and a three-time Archibald Prize finalist, he trained at the New York Academy of Art and now works from his studio in the UK.
“My paintings take on an energy of their own,” he says. Each one is made to lift the room it hangs in.
