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The tension between traditional portraits and works that sit at the limits of what most people consider a portrait is the friction that fires up the whole engine of the prize.
You care because you already care.
Carrie Miller learned of the winner of this year’s Archibald Prize just like everyone else – via social media about two hours before it was official…
Roger Boreham’s Dad, what a smile. More Archibald 2008 finalists here.
John Beard wins the Archibald Prize.
Here we are, once again…
The Black Fellas Dreaming Gallery on Oxford Street is terrible. The paintings in the window that we see as we walk past on our way to Taylor Square or the bottle shop are uniformly awful and we have never ever
The Wynne Prize for landscape painting has always been the poor cousin of the three competitions. Artists like Aida Tomescu have been raising the tone over the last decade or so and it’s good to see she’s there again. Peter
The real show every year is The Sulman Prize for Genre Painting. Since no one is really certain what a “genre” painting is, it’s a total up-for-grabs fun fest that’s more about what’s happening in Australian art than anything else
How dare reality intrude on our fantasy world?!! We knew full well that trying to predict the winner of the Archibald Prize for Portraiture is virtually impossible, especially considering the fickle and perverse tastes and decisions of the Art Gallery