Winner: Archibald Prize 1984
Keith Looby Max Gillies
oil on canvas
244 x 183 cm
The subject of this Archibald Prize-winning portrait by Keith Looby is actor and comedian Max Gillies (born 1941), renowned for his satirical impressions of Australian politicians. At the time, Bob Hawke was the prime minister and the subject of one of Gillies’s more popular impersonations; an image of Hawke can be seen in the audience in the background of the work.