Portrait

Curator Notes: A nose set within a block, is notable for its sheer wit; it is highly expressive, even without eyes or a mouth, and its position on the wall, level with the viewer’s head, makes it strangely empathetic.

Hany Armanious, Portrait 2020, pigmented polyurethane resin. National Portrait Gallery. Purchased with funds provided by donors 2024.

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A block of brown stone with a darker brown nose in middle on a white background

Buxton Contemporary acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we work, learn and create, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples, and the wider Kulin Nations. We acknowledge their continuing care for Country and recognise that Australia’s First Peoples art and cultural practices have thrived here for millenia.