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Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guessed just on viewing the work.

Sometimes that back story has made me look at the work in a totally different way and I’m bringing you another eight artists' works in addition to those in ep 155.

Click on the artist's name below for the full podcast episode (and any YouTube videos) and see images of the works we talk about below.

Davida AllenJacqui StockdaleSam LeachSam Leach YouTube videoRobin EleyPeter O'DohertyKathrin LonghurstTom CarmentNicholas Harding

Links mentioned in this episode

TWP YouTube channelSign up for the TWP NewsletterTWP Loading Dock video NGV Triennial highlights - Instagram reelMemorial service for Jan Senbergs

I dream of Sam Neill when I go to bed, 1986Davida AllenNational Gallery of Victoria © Davida AllenCollection: National Gallery of Victoria, MelbournePurchased 1986 (P22-1986)

Drawings of George StirlingJacqui Stockdale

George Stirling from the Heads of the Family seriesJacqui Stockdale

Sam LeachMachine-assisted memory of Harewood Farm, Meadowsoil on linen51 x 51 cm

Robin Eley‘Self Portrait’, 2010, oil on Belgian linen, 39″ x 25″Runner Up, Doug Moran portrait Prize, 2010

Peter O'DohertyEdgecliff high rise, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 198x167cm

Kathrin LonghurstPoster Girl, 2011, oil on canvasFinalist Portia Geach Memorial Award, 2011

Tom CarmentWhere I scattered my father's ashes, Oratunga, SAwatercolour on paper45.3 x 52 cm

Nicholas HardingRobert Drewe (In the swell)2006oil on canvas (frame: 140.4 cm x 125.0 cm, support: 138.0 cm x 123.0 cm)Collection: National Portrait Gallery