GUY WARREN
"Portrait of Vice -
Chancellor
Ken McKinnon"

oil on canvas
168x138cm

Reproduction courtesy of the artist.

"Portrait of Ken McKinnon" is hung appropriately enough in Building 67, "The McKinnon Building". More formal than the portrait of Bert Flugelman the portrait is a good likeness of the previous Vice-Chancellor, the first to recognise the need to develop the University of Wollongong Art Collection and to create the Directors position in the early 1980's. McKinnon was Vice-Chancellor, University of Wollongong 1981-1995

While the grass hut in the background may be seen as referring to Warren's shack in the Jamberoo rainforest, it is primarily used as a symbolic reference to the years McKinnon spent in New Guinea where he was involved in teaching, finally becoming Director of Secondary School Education.