Second meal
2022
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
125.0 × 104.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Bruce Parncutt AO and Celebration Donors, 2024
© Prudence Flint
Gallery location
Gallery 12
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
According to Prudence Flint, ideas for her paintings come from a ‘working through of conflicts, pleasures and intensities’ that preoccupy her at a certain time. Those ideas are reproduced in small pencil drawings, which are then drawn freehand onto linen canvas using willow charcoal. After the composition is sketched out, Flint invites a model to pose.
‘The women that I choose to model for the paintings bring their intimacy and their mood. They come with their choice of clothing, a certain body type and posture, that holds contradictions and forms the meaning of the painting. It’s a kind of delicate projection or mirroring.’
– Prudence Flint
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
stamped in ink u.l.: PRUDENCE FLINT
inscribed in black chalk on reverse u.l.: Second Meal / 2022
Accession Number
2024.21
Department
Contemporary Art