Jane Tyrrell (Shortlisted for the Head On Portrait Prize 2011)

 

The first collaboration between myself the multi talented Jane Tyrrell.

Jane is an amazing soul singer, (The Herd, Urthboy) fine artists, print maker and designer that I met by chance and knew straight away would become one of my closest friends and collaborators.

It was a few months after we had become friends that we caught up for coffee, I had wanted to do a portrait of Jane since the moment I met her, and as though I was asking her on a date, I turned bright red and blurted this out in a particularly undignified way. Luckily she had become accustomed to me and accepted gracefully, mentioning that she had been meaning to ask me to photograph her in the same meeting.

Art directed by Jane and me, hair and make up by the patient and talented Catherine Biggs.

This image was recently shortlisted for the Head On Portrait Prize and is currently on display with the other short listed images at the ACP on Oxford st. in Sydney.