Gemma Ward

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BUMP.

Best face in the business

 

[melbguy]

OCEAN Grove artist Jodie Candy has been nominated for a prestigious national art prize for her portrait of Australian supermodel Gemma Ward.

Candy was this week announced as one of 25 finalists in the The Metro 5 Art Award for her untitled painting, which is a dramatic 1.5m by 1.5m oil on canvas portrait of Ward.

The 28-year-old's painting was chosen from more than 300 entries from around Australia.

Candy said Ward was the perfect muse.

"I'm fascinated by Gemma's face because it has almost an alien-like quality about it. It's also incredibly versatile and she can achieve a totally different look just by using different make-up or hair pieces," she said.

"Her face has a chameleon-like quality which is just amazing. I set out to portray her in just this way and deliberately didn't name the work, or put her in any particular setting, because I wanted to draw out and emphasise that air of ambiguity she has."

Candy has been painting since high school and said she was in "pure shock" when she was named as a finalist.

"I've always been arty and I'm just coming up to two years working professionally," she said.

"I actually find it hard to sit down and just watch television, I'm always sketching or doodling."

Candy's work will be exhibited at Metro 5 Gallery, 1214 High St, Armadale, from June 10 to July 6.

The winner of the prize will be announced by former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett at Metro 5 on June 24.

from the Geelong Advertiser
Heres a picture from Metro 5 website

 

[kissmesweet]

^ Beautiful! Congratulations to the winner and the painting is beautiful, depicting Gemma perfectly.

 

[misstarshine]

wow that is an amazing painting

 

[babysweetums]

that is ssuch a cool painting omg, i actually gasped when i saw that...gemma must be so flattered!

 

[fairy]

to be honest...i hate that painting...its scary and weird

 

[ElectricAlyce]

to be honest...i hate that painting...its scary and weird

funny - I love it for the excact same reasons

 

[SirSunday]

^true. i think it captures gemma's prominent features the best - normally i'd think these features to be exaggerated, or odd - but in gemma's case they're beauty defining characteristics

 

[wings]

the stranges wont be out in germany, will it?

 

[tocceve]

^I watched it online in English which is okay to me and I think you could watch it too. They didn't speak a lot anyway. I don't think I'm allowed to post a link in here so PM me if you want further information.

 

[babysweetums]

i miss gemma ed's!!! cant she do movies and pictures??

 

[babysweetums]

at least its gemma from thestrangers.com

 

[lozz]

Hehe..

 

[giovanna smith]

It's funny....

 

[makhiukwan]

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^many pics are unseen before...Gemma looks so Great at Chanel!!
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^just happy to see Gemma with Lily at the backstage!!
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