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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Well, we all know and love our next guest, who's

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Speaker 2: start in some of our favorite films. What you may

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Speaker 2: not know is that she's passionate about art, so much

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Speaker 2: so she's hosting a new series celebrating the Archibald. She

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Speaker 2: joins us now Rachel Griffiths.

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Speaker 1: Hello, good morning, lovely people.

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Speaker 2: Hello, you're married to an artist. I'm also married to

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Speaker 2: an artist. Is this why you felt that you could

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Speaker 2: bring something to this because you can see the Archibald

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Speaker 2: and the hard work behind the scenes, because you've got

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Speaker 2: an insight into it a bit.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I think not really comfortable with the art

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Speaker 1: thing because also my mother is an artist and was

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Speaker 1: an art teacher, and she was you know, I still

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Speaker 1: run into people that I think they're coming up to

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Speaker 1: you know. So I loved you in so and so,

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Speaker 1: and I like your mother taught me art. She was

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Speaker 1: the best teacher I ever had.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's that.

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Speaker 1: So I did grow up kind of surrounded by it,

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Speaker 1: and I you know, I talked to you artists and

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Speaker 1: you know, collectors and people that work galleries. But I

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Speaker 1: think what I loved about what I love about the

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Speaker 1: artchi board because I really loved contemporary kind of wild art,

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Speaker 1: but I love the Archibald is a you know, it's

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Speaker 1: our sporting moment and it's you know, it's seen by

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Speaker 1: almost any other show art show in Australia and everyone

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Speaker 1: has an opinion because you know, the faces, and I

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Speaker 1: think it just makes people comfortable going I reckon it

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Speaker 1: sucks or oh this is a cracker. And for one

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Speaker 1: hundred years these have been lining up to kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, a peer at the at the annual Facefest.

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Speaker 3: Have you been painted? Have you been painted in the

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Speaker 3: Archibald Prize if someone entered you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, there's a tiny little portrait that I tried to

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Speaker 1: win it this year to rebalance a little bit the

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Speaker 1: fact that only ten women have won over one hundred years.

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Speaker 1: But Natasha Brennick did absolutely cracker portrait size of two

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Speaker 1: iPhones because I think there's a special place in hell

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Speaker 1: for where celebrity portraits go to die.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Right, because Amanda's been entered a few times as

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Speaker 3: well in the Archiboard. And the question I asked, once

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Speaker 3: the portrait has been painted, if they offered you to

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Speaker 3: buy the portrait if you want it, but then you

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Speaker 3: look like a bit of a tool having a big

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Speaker 3: painting of yourself in the house so perfectly, A little

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Speaker 3: small painting of yourself wouldn't be so bad. So the

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Speaker 3: iPhone painting would be a good thing.

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Speaker 1: That's right. I think it is what I have seen

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Speaker 1: some portraits in people's houses, and you know, some people

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Speaker 1: do buy a celebrity portrait of someone else, but I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of them just go, you know, to

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Speaker 1: the graveyard. We had to hunt down some missing portraits.

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Speaker 1: You know, there were six thousand missing portraits that Natalie

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Speaker 1: from the Art Gallery was looking for for Hearst and

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Speaker 1: Henry exhibition. And I'm looking for the Archibald that I

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Speaker 1: think really speaks to kind of changing national identity. But

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Speaker 1: I went down I got word of this crack. A

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Speaker 1: portrait of Molly Melgrim was actually at his house. And

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Speaker 1: he's so funny because it's in the hallway. Whenever he

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Speaker 1: goes past it, he kind of puts his hand up

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Speaker 1: so he doesn't have to look at it. And I

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Speaker 1: said to Molly, like, Molly, you know what made you

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Speaker 1: want to live with your portry? Said I didn't. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a good painting, but it was in

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Speaker 1: the Archibald and you know it's very popular, and he said,

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Speaker 1: and then I come home in a few weeks after

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Speaker 1: the show finishes, this big thing arrives on my front

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Speaker 1: door with a giant bow saying, dear Molly love Elton

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Speaker 1: Elton John had bought it for him, and because Elton

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Speaker 1: had bought it, he couldn't get rid of. Well, I

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Speaker 1: had the Slutley Great painting and it's in the centenary show.

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Speaker 1: So wow, I love seeing that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I had the great honor being painted by arn

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Speaker 2: Do for his television show. And it's a massive portrait

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Speaker 2: and you get to take it home the end. It

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Speaker 2: freaks my children out. I had it up for a

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Speaker 2: little while.

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Speaker 3: Because it's what was such a beautiful Amalian dictator with

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Speaker 3: his giant picture of yourself and the louder.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll say, don't listen to me, listen to

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Speaker 2: that lady.

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Speaker 1: Well. I think that's the interesting thing is as I

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Speaker 1: go through, you know, one hundred years of portraiture, and

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Speaker 1: I look at very modern ones, very traditional ones, and

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Speaker 1: it is it is some of the smaller ones that

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Speaker 1: I think are the most powerful. You know that they

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Speaker 1: say the ideal portray is just the size of a

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Speaker 1: human head. You know, it's not one of these kind

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Speaker 1: of blown up ones, and they carry I guess the humanness,

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Speaker 1: you know, where you can almost feel the person in

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Speaker 1: the painting. And Guy Warren, who's an artist, is one

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Speaker 1: hundred years old and he hit a picture of him

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Speaker 1: and it's very human, you know, it's it's it's a

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Speaker 1: beautiful portrait of kind of wisdom and age and cantankerous humor.

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Speaker 2: Hmmm, Well, the show sounds fantastic.

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Speaker 3: It sounds great. I'll be watching it. It's eight thirty

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Speaker 3: tonight on the ABC. Rachel Griffiths, I don't know. I've

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Speaker 3: never heard of her before, but she's hosting it. She'll

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Speaker 3: do a great job, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing my Michael Pale And it's like you don't

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Speaker 1: have to know about art to love the show, just

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Speaker 1: like you don't have to know anything about Roman toilets

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Speaker 1: to spend an hour with Michael in a muddy field

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Speaker 1: in Britain.

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Speaker 2: Well, luckily for us, we know a lot about Roman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's our that's our expertise.

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Speaker 1: I love a Roman toy right, completely hooked on them.

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Speaker 3: Rachel, it's always great to talk to. You will catch

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Speaker 3: tonight eight thirty on the ABC, Thank

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Speaker 1: You, Jonesy and Amanda's