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Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guessed just on viewing the work.

Sometimes that back story has made me look at the work in a totally different way and I’m bringing you another eight artists’ works in addition to those in ep 155.

Click on the artist’s name below for the full podcast episode (and any YouTube videos) and see images of the works we talk about below.

I dream of Sam Neill when I go to bed, 1986
Davida Allen
National Gallery of Victoria © Davida Allen
Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased 1986 (P22-1986)

Drawings of George Stirling
Jacqui Stockdale

George Stirling from the Heads of the Family series
Jacqui Stockdale

Sam Leach
Machine-assisted memory of Harewood Farm, Meadows
oil on linen
51 x 51 cm

Robin Eley
‘Self Portrait’, 2010, oil on Belgian linen, 39″ x 25″
Runner Up, Doug Moran portrait Prize, 2010

Peter O’Doherty
Edgecliff high rise, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 198x167cm

Kathrin Longhurst
Poster Girl, 2011, oil on canvas
Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award, 2011

Tom Carment
Where I scattered my father’s ashes, Oratunga, SA
watercolour on paper
45.3 x 52 cm

Nicholas Harding
Robert Drewe (In the swell)
2006
oil on canvas (frame: 140.4 cm x 125.0 cm, support: 138.0 cm x 123.0 cm)
Collection: National Portrait Gallery