If Jim Chalmers can deliver on his big picture,Australia will win on a global scale. If not,the title of Christopher Malouf’s Archibald Prize portrait will be vindicated.
Animals join artists at the final call for entries in this year’s Archibald,Wynne and Sulman prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW.
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.
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.
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.
Chamberlain-Creighton,wrongfully convicted of murdering baby Azaria,says Hans Brunner’s evidence was vital in clearing her name.
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”.
Jaq Grantford’s painting of Noni Hazlehurst is a nod to the long-running children’s TV show.
The same portrait submitted to the present-day prize would almost certainly not be selected.
The country’s oldest art prize is awarded for best landscape painting of Australian scenery or figure sculpture.
Here are the best of the works that were rejected for the nation’s most famous art prize.