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.
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.
Jules Francois Archibald wooed Rosa Frankenstein in London. But he was not what he seemed.
One-half of the electronic pop duo Electric Fields,Zaachariaha Fielding,said he was humbled and honoured to be awarded the Wynne Prize.