Can you control your image? Gina Rinehart, King Charles and ‘moral portraits’
- Written by Roger Benjamin, Professor in Art History, University of Sydney
“She’s no oil painting”.
Those were the unkind words of a colleague commenting on the subject of Vincent Namatjira’s acrylic painting, Gina. Every one of the prominent Australians and cultural heroes in Namatjira’s ensemble Australia in Colour (2021) is subject to his trademark distortions.
When the painter gets to...
Read more: Can you control your image? Gina Rinehart, King Charles and ‘moral portraits’

















