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Premier Mark McGowan’s meat pie portrait painted by Nova’s Nathan Morris

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Nathan Morris’ meat pie portrait of WA Premier Mark McGowan.
Camera IconNathan Morris’ meat pie portrait of WA Premier Mark McGowan. Credit: Nova

Premier Mark McGowan has been immortalised in a meat pie painting by Nova presenter Nathan Morris — with a surprisingly impressive result.

Hot on the heels of this week’s news that local actress and artist Esther Longhurst had put together a Vegemite portrait of the Premier, Nathan took the challenge to another level, using pies, gravy, tomato and barbecue sauce.

The idea came about from an off-the-cuff comment by Mr McGowan, responding to a joke by Nathan that he was the Premier’s “slave”.

“Nathan, considering you’re now my slave, I command you to paint me from a pie,” Mr McGowan said.

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Nat Locke joked that Nathan should paint the Premier like “one of your French girls” but true to his word, the meat pie portrait actually happened.

Using Jesters Pies and with the Titanic theme overlaid, Nathan got to work in the recording studio.

“You’ve got a canvas, that’s standard, you’ve got brushes... and you’re using the mince from Jesters pies as a base,” Nat said.

Describing mince as a “different creature” to paint, Nathan explained he would do the shading using various sauces and watered down mince.

Nathan Morris painting his meat pie portrait of Premier Mark McGowan.
Camera IconNathan Morris painting his meat pie portrait of Premier Mark McGowan. Credit: Nova

“This is the most annoying thing I’ve ever done in my life,” he said.

“I’m having zero fun, it’s so fiddly.”

By the end of the painting, the resemblance was definitely there — the only concern was whether it would stand the test of — standing.

“It’s not only standing up, it’s outstanding,” he said after propping the portrait up.

“There is no sliding mince.”

Both Nat and Shaun McManus confessed that while they were impressed with the Vegemite portrait, Nathan’s was “way better”.

And to top it all off, Nathan also revealed his chosen name for the artwork.

“I call it ‘That Meathead from Rockingham’,” he said.

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