Homesick
Liam Nunan
- Sitter: Self Portrait
- Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Dimensions: 55cm x 65cm
- Representation: This artist represents themselves
- Categories: Performing arts and music industry
About the artwork
Liam Nunan was born and raised in Brisbane, though he has called Sydney home for many years now. This self-portrait, titled Homesick, came together over two days when home was on his mind. He has positioned himself in front of a small painting of the suburban outlook from his parents’ Herston balcony, a painting within a painting, a view he knows by heart from the outside looking in.
Nunan describes the work as “an expression of dual belonging and nostalgia, closing the distance between Brisbane and Sydney and giving me a window back to my family home.” Self-portraits are a regular and important part of his practice, functioning as a journal entry, a logbook, a chance to check in, calibrate and record the meeting point between outer and inner worlds. This one sits quietly at the intersection of where he is from and where he has chosen to be.
About the artist
Liam Nunan is a Sydney-based artist who came to painting after almost twenty years working as a professional actor. Largely self-taught, he works primarily in oils across portraiture, still life and landscape. A finalist in the Archibald and Doug Moran National Portrait Prizes and winner of the Lester Prize, he has also twice won the Brisbane Portrait Prize Packers Prize.
