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Melbourne artist Sean Layh and his Packing Room Prize-winning painting of actor Jacob Collins. ( ABC News: Abubakr Sajid ) Sean Layh has won the $3,000 Archibald Packing Room Prize for his portrait of British Australian actor Jacob Collins, The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. He told ABC Arts he felt "stunned" at winning, and found out while teaching an art workshop in Spain. "I don't expect to see something like this again in my career," he said. Layh first met his subject after he saw him perform as Hamlet in Melbourne in 2024. "It was performed by candlelight in a tight ph