Gina Rinehart’s billions of dollars and huge sway in Australian business where she has branched out from iron and coal into television and newspapers make her a favourite target of satirists.
Her poetry and largesse (which extends to other billionaires but not her workers), the bitter family feud which only seems to grow nastier the longer it drags on, her disdain for Australia’s drinking, smoking, socializing and lazy workers class and admiration for $2-a-day African miners, only adds to her lampooning appeal.
Peter Batey, director of the Bald Archy Prize and the artist Warren Lane kindly gave MINING.com permission to reproduce (Scoop! For the first time outside Australia!) the 2013 winner of the competition which has been running for 21 years. The prize is internationally recognized as the only art competition judged by a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Maude.
“The Banquet of Gina and Ginia” was modelled on the 17th century portrait The Banquet of Esther and Ahasuerus by Dutch painter Jan Victors and features the larger than life matriarch and her favourite daughter Ginia [sic], the child she doesn’t only see in court.
What they say about a thousand words:
Source: Bald Archy Prize
9 Comments
Ganapathy ramachandran
She works hard to reach this position.Why to criticism on her
Mark
Good on you MINING.Com for taking the low road – disappointed that you printed this.
allritejack
Agree, totally unprofessional. Leave it to the tabloids and their low IQ readership.
rodsexton
I would like to meet Frik Els face to face.
LAMB
She really ‘deserves’ everything she gets. Greed makes ‘pigs’ of us all.
LAMB
Is this “THE LAST SUPPER” ?
Fossil66
In very bad taste, She works hard for what she has achieved. She does not treat her workers bad and uses the best consulting engineering consultants on her projects. Go make fun of Al Gore and his hidden vested interests.
Glenn
I appreciate that her ever so public life and comments in the media make Gina Rinehart a relatively easy “target” for such tasteless rubbish as this. A very public figure with such strong views will always draw comment and criticism. However, as suggested by some of these comments, I am surprised to see a tabloid reference that belies both Mining.com’s and its readership’s integrity and intelligence.
question mark
Isn’t this a site about information pertinent to the mining industry?