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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n If his social media pages are anything to go by, Queensland\u2019s education minister loves taking selfies.<\/p>\n Now one has leapt off the screen, becoming the unlikely inspiration for a painting that young artist Angel Sadik hopes will soon appear in a Brisbane gallery.<\/p>\n Dubbed The man behind the title, the circular painting of Education and Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek has been entered in the Brisbane Portrait Prize\u2019s Next Gen category<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sadik, the vice-captain at Corinda State High School<\/a>, said she selected the selfie snapshot as an homage to the minister.<\/p>\n \u201cHe does this thing wherever he is \u2026 a 0.5x or whatever it is,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Sadik is referring to the fish-eye-style selfie created by placing a phone camera on a 0.5x zoom setting \u2013 allowing more of the photographer\u2019s surroundings to appear in the picture \u2013 which can frequently be seen on the long-standing Queensland MP\u2019s social accounts.<\/p>\n Langbroek\u2019s happy snaps feature the grinning minister next to a range of people, from students to community figures and federal parliamentarians<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just a nice way of bringing people together … it\u2019s like an inclusive signature move,\u201d Sadik said.<\/p>\n Rendered in oil paints on sanded plywood, the portrait was a study on image, Sadik said.<\/p>\n However, she said the viewer decided exactly whose image that was.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are two cameras in the piece,\u201d she said. \u201cThe circular canvas was like a camera lens, to represent how the outer society views him.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can view it in this perspective \u2026 [that] you\u2019re looking outwards at him.\u201d<\/p>\n The second camera is the phone itself. \u201cThat\u2019s more of a self representation, the way he views himself,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just to do with how you view him as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n Related Article The 17-year-old said she first considered Langbroek as a possible portrait subject when he visited her school in late October last year \u2013 stopping to take a few 0.5x ministerial selfies<\/a>.<\/p>\n The minister had called a press conference at the school, watched by the then incoming school vice captain Sadik and other members of Corinda\u2019s student leadership team.<\/p>\n Sadik said she was struck by the minister\u2019s comfort in front of multiple news cameras, particularly when fielding questions about the state\u2019s \u201cbest and final<\/a>\u201d pay offer, made to teachers that morning.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was just so composed and that really influenced me a lot \u2026 I wanted to represent him in a lens that really shows the man behind the camera,\u201d Sadik said.<\/p>\n When the minister again visited the school in February this year to sit for the portrait, she said she uncovered his \u201cless intimidating\u201d human side.<\/p>\n Speaking to this masthead in February, Langbroek said he had been flattered by the offer, and felt it suited his ministerial portfolios of arts and education.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m interested to hear how Angel\u2019s going to portray me, given that she doesn\u2019t do what we\u2019d call traditional works of art,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n Sadik\u2019s past entries, in year 10<\/a> and 11, included mixed media self-portraits using photography, acrylic paint and her own hair<\/a>.<\/p>\n She said her art teacher, Pam Leech, along with friends and family, had been huge supports as she created the piece.<\/p>\n The Brisbane Portrait Prize will announce finalists for the main and Next Gen prizes on September 5 ahead of a gallery opening and unveiling of the winners later in the month.<\/p>\n Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n![\"Angel](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/70ec075ae4c25dbe3325bd94c149bfc2250549f93206c081e0bd1e0a71a03bbf.jpeg\")
Angel Sadik\u2019s portrait of Education and Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek, dubbed The man behind the title.Morgan Roberts<\/p>\n![\"Langbroek](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/099fcf078ea7679b1c44e9337f030b16e9ebf0684347dd59c753ec79032dd22d.jpeg\")
Langbroek has taken his \u201csignature move\u201d fish-eye selfies at Corinda SHS on multiple occasions.Facebook \/ Catherine Strohfeldt<\/p>\n![\"Angel](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bff0932a444ab8a2c4ce84fa42a30d5ec828c2ef88559e1c8a6383dbcf2c4e85.jpeg\")
Angel Sadik\u2019s portrait of Education and Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek.Morgan Roberts<\/p>\n![\"Brisbane](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1897aab6a0ad5b80641854cccafbef219ffb953cf27ec6d20a3f9dd66d28ac35.jpeg\")
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Angel Sadik (right) and her art teacher, Pam Leech (left).Morgan Roberts<\/p>\n