Hamlet 'double portrait' wins Archibald packers' prize

Sean Layh depicts both actor Jacob Collins and Hamlet, the character he plays, in a single subject. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

The Archibald Prize requires artists to depict a real, living sitter, but Sean Layh read that rule and questioned whether his subject needed to be, or not to be. 

The 30-or-so handlers, packers and hangers at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) proclaimed the Melbourne artist the winner of the Packing Room Prize, which runs adjacent to the Archibald, on Thursday.