MELBOURNE -- Angus McDonald is a Lennox Head-based artist and filmmaker who has been painting professionally for over 30 years. This year, his portrait of Marcia Langton AO (Order of Australia), an Aboriginal writer and academic, marked the seventh time he featured as a finalist in Australia's most prestigious portrait competition, the Archibald Prize. But this year, McDonald was also the subject of another Archibald contender -- a portrait by his friend, the Kurdish Iranian artist Mostafa Azimitabar.
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Acclaimed Australian painter spotlights art of human rights
From economics to campaigns for asylum seekers, Angus McDonald makes a mark in diverse worlds
Artist and filmmaker Angus McDonald has been a finalist in Australia's most prestigious portrait competition, the Archibald Prize, seven times. "The Archibald transcends the art world," McDonald says. "It has so much power to engage people," (Photo by Nolan Verheij)
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