Archibald Prize
Protest, pain and family the themes as Archibald Prize entries arrive
As the entries arrived at the Art Gallery of NSW ahead of Friday’s deadline, you could tell a lot about recent events in Australia by the faces painted.
- by Helen Pitt
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Tom Slingsby sits for the Archibald ahead of Sydney chapter of SailGP
The five time Australian Male Sailor of the Year will skipper Team Australia at its home SailGP race on Sydney Harbour this weekend. He’s also been asked to pose for the country’s top portraiture prize.
- by Michael Koziol
Baseball club lauds artist’s ‘incredible’ gift to honour late player
Artist David Bromley was well qualified to commemorate Chris Lane, the young Melbourne baseballer who was murdered in the United States over a decade ago.
- by Carolyn Webb
Thirty-five years after her acquittal, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and a key scientist reunite
Chamberlain-Creighton, wrongfully convicted of murdering baby Azaria, says Hans Brunner’s evidence was vital in clearing her name.
- by Carolyn Webb
Legally blind artist wins the Brisbane Portrait Prize
Redlands artist Dylan Mooney has won the $50,000 top prize in the annual portrait competition for an artwork praised for speaking “of personal experience and the power of love”.
- by Nick Dent
‘Quite spooky’ portrait of Play School favourite wins Archibald people’s prize
Jaq Grantford’s painting of Noni Hazlehurst is a nod to the long-running children’s TV show.
- by Linda Morris
‘Conservative choice’: Would this artist still win the Archibald Prize today?
The same portrait submitted to the present-day prize would almost certainly not be selected.
- by John McDonald
APY Lands art investigation the elephant in the Wynne Prize room
The country’s oldest art prize is awarded for best landscape painting of Australian scenery or figure sculpture.
- by John McDonald
The portraits that didn’t make the Archibald Prize cut
Here are the best of the works that were rejected for the nation’s most famous art prize.
- by John McDonald
‘Contentious’ portrait among Archibald rejects celebrated in own show
A semi-nude portrait of Sydney performance artist Betty Grumble didn’t make the cut for this year’s Archibald Prize, but has been hung at the SH Ervin Gallery’s Salon des Refusés.
- by Linda Morris
The fake identity and the forgotten wife of the man behind the Archibald
Jules Francois Archibald wooed Rosa Frankenstein in London. But he was not what he seemed.
- by David Myton