Archibald’s Packing Room Prize goes to Betina Fauvel-Ogden’s George Calombaris portrait
A PORTRAIT of celebrity chef and MasterChef judge George Calombaris by Betina Fauvel-Ogden has won the Archibald’s Packing Room Prize.
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A PORTRAIT of Masterchef George Calombaris today won the Packing Room Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.
The portrait by Betina Fauvel-Ogden is also a finalist in the Archibald Prize, to be announced next week.
The gallery packing staff work around the clock at Archibald time and award their own prize, for which $1500 goes to the winner.
Calombaris said he was “just a cook” but was gob smacked by the creativity of Ms Fauvel-Ogden.
“What would life be without creative people?” Mr Calombaris said.
“Creativity is so beautiful and it was a blessing to stand there and watch this incredible artist produce something like that.”
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Fauvel-Ogden said she was attracted by Mr Calombaris’s intensity and the fact he was “cute”.
The painting took her out of her comfort zone.
“I just went for it and somehow a little magic happened, “ she said.
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