Might 23, 2026 | Supply: ABC Information | by Leisa Scott and Vanessa Gorman

Again when Rachel Ward was a mannequin hanging out with the Nineteen Seventies New York jet set, pop artwork legend Andy Warhol gave her a portray of a cow.

She wasn’t too satisfied concerning the present then, she tells Australian Story, considering, “A cow? I don’t desire a image of a bloody cow”.

However artwork and life typically discover a method of intertwining and that yellow and blue model of Warhol’s iconic Cow sequence now hangs within the homestead kitchen of Rachel’s beef cattle property, the place the place the previous mannequin, actor and director has discovered the aim she has lengthy craved.

“How intelligent of him,” says Rachel of the well-known artist, “to have identified I used to be gonna find yourself as a cow hand.”