i'm off to see a mate who's one of our most beloved actors and comedians he's also the owner
of a giant archibald entry hey how are you this is quite the welcoming committee your chariot awaits
wow what a spot hey it's my hideout got your license chains i've got a license for something
are we are we doing it again good to see you i feel like i'm in the flintstones oh you don't have
to you don't have to pedal yeah it's got it that's the good news hey hey hey so welcome to uh camp
camp jk and what made you do the tree change it's been five years and we did it because look at this
this is shane hello shane jacobson it's a bit big well if you're away for dinner which i know you
are a lot your family i'm going to miss you really you're not there dad's quiet tonight
he has your knees in mind any jokes at all here we go gotcha oh interesting now the whole
painting changes when you when you're at that point when i'm up to your level now
you're you're up in the clouds up there aren't you i know and you're wondering but on the other
hand help me down um i mean it's right at that height isn't it that's a problem does anyone um
get up close and personally and then who eyes with this thing right too close you're massive i mean
you are messy make yourself comfy oh shane's world it's very henry the eighth isn't it
lord of the castle here overlooking the long table it's overbearing isn't it it's big i have a theory
that very few people really want to live with their portraits you know particularly as actors
we're used to our face on the sides of buses i don't like having a great big picture of myself in
the house because there's no kenny poster i have no on the way daniel butterworth who painted it is
he's just a gorgeous human so he when he offered it to me like that was that was a gift it was
it was as much about him and the work he'd done and i love him as an artist
so i kind of felt like i was bringing him into the house that's how i met him i had a coffee and a
that shirt and pair of thongs and that's pretty much how i get around and i said oh what do you
want me to wear and he goes no i came to paint you that's you and he said just stand there if there's
something very open and that little expression there you know those eyebrows go up when
you're curious what are you doing now how are you dripping that paint oh is that why you're putting
you i can see you're asking him his process so i think he's nailed something very particular
and gorgeous about you which is that curiosity now the terms of the prize is that
the archibald's meant to have a distinguished australian as their subject i reckon if you looked
up the word distinguished it would say at the top of the line well it's not jacobson for a start
i think you are undistinguished i'll take that not undistinguished
so what do you think makes a great portrait vincent fantazo who who is my favorite artist
on the planet whatever vincent does is my favorite thing that everything he does is incredible but he
has detail i know some people don't like that kind of art i think to be able to do that is
unbelievable but his paintings affect me always all of them if you had to choose a favorite
archibald of all time would it be a fantuzo yeah which one the one he did of heath ledger
well there's three heath ledges in it one it's an amazing painting let's start there
you know like a lot of us like i knew heath he's had many sides he was a
was a was a thinker and he was an artist and a clown yeah he's had those sides and i'd loved
what vincent did with it i love the fact that he did that he showed that
do you love art i do yeah i do imagine if watching this show and what you've done with the show has
kids now picking up paint brushes and pens what a great virus to spread in 2021 art
you