SELF SABOTAGE

Portraits by David Darcy

Join 2026 Archibald Prize Finalist, David Darcy for an exhibition walk through and artist talk of his long-awaited solo exhibition, Self Sabotage.

David Darcy is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in Murrurundi NSW. He has won numerous portrait awards in Australia and was recently commissioned to paint the Honourable Bob Katter for Parliament House.

Having achieved great recognition for traditional portraiture, Darcy once again reinvents his practice with this latest body of work. With his long-awaited solo exhibition, Self Sabotage, exploring the ability to undermine a persona, in search of honest and self-fulfilling representations. From traditional to abstraction, the portraiture becomes alchemy, where faces bloom from landscapes, fracture into myths, borrow masks from memory. Identity is not captured but negotiated, revised with every brushstroke. Self Sabotage hosts a metamorphosis, staging the fragile theatre of who we might be.