Self Portrait at 24
Tilly-belle Robinson
Self Portrait at 24 [detail] 2025
Self-portrait
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 cm
About the Artwork
Every year, I paint a self-portrait based on a picture taken around my birthday. It’s fascinating seeing how my self-perception and how I want to represent myself changes over time, even subconsciously— thinking “Oh, I shouldn’t make myself too this or too that” as I’m painting. Painting yourself is always the hardest thing to do objectively, because you have the longest history with the most assumptions about yourself.
About the Artist
Tilly-belle Robinson is a self-taught artist based in Townsville. Her work is in collections around the world, including in Sydney, Los Angeles, Milan, and Manchester. Her work has appeared in the Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art in 2019 at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and was selected as a finalist in the Percival Portrait Painting Prize in 2018.