Pat Hudson has won the Bald Archy Prize – a parody of the Archibald Prize – with a phallic-themed likeness of Cardinal Pell.

Victorian artist Pat Hudson has won the Bald Archy Prize – a parody of the Archibald Prize – with an irreverent portrait of Cardinal George Pell titled Nothing to Say. The Australian Cardinal, currently Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy at the Vatican, is pictured with a red devil’s tail looped over his arm and a face that bears a striking resemblance to certain appendage of the male anatomy.

“I prefer to leave that to the viewers of the painting to decide what they see in it,” said Hudson in a report by the ABC, “It’s interesting at the exhibition here to be with people who have seen it and to hear what they’re saying, and everybody here is seeing something different, or noticing something different about it, or taking a different meaning from it.”

The portrait was inspired by the controversy surrounding Pell’s response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse within the Catholic Church.

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