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The Archibald Prize, Australia's premier portraiture award

The Archibald Prize - Australia's premier portraiture award Go to the Archibald Prize article......

The Archibald Prize - Australia's Culture Portal

Winner of the 2008 Archibald Prize. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. An exhibition of the paintings shortlisted for judging, in conjunction with those shortlisted for the Wynne Prize and the Sulman Prize, is held at the Art Gallery o...

Australian of the Year Award - Australia's Culture Portal

2009 Australian of the Year, Professor Michael Dodson. Image courtesy of the National Australia Day Council. On Australia Day - 26 January - each year, the Prime Minister of Australia announces the Australian of the Year, Young Australian of the Year, Se...

Brett Whiteley - Australia's Culture Portal

Brett Whiteley is one of Australia's most revered artists. He won many prizes and awards and his work hangs in numerous galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New Yor...

Grace Cossington Smith - Australia's Culture Portal

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...

Margaret Olley - Australia's Culture Portal

The art of Margaret Olley is the art of deliberate choices. Olley's art teacher at Somerville House persuaded Olley's parents to send Margaret to art school. Margaret Olley is represented at the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the...

Australian painters - Australia's Culture Portal

John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...

The Portia Geach Memorial Award - Australia's Culture Portal

Winner of the 2007 Portia Geach Award. The Portia Geach Memorial Award is recognised as one of the most important celebrations of the talents and creativity of Australian female portrait painters. Winner of the 1992 Portia Geach Award. ...

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Major Art Prizes   (more info)

The Major Art Prizes page covers details of criteria, prize value, medium and other information for The Archibald Prize, the Wynne Prize, Sir John Sulman Prize and the Dobell Prize for drawing.

Gillie and Marc Schattner   (more info)

Husband and wife Marc and Gillie Schattner are international award-winning artists and Archibald Prize Finalists. Gillie and Marc have been painting together for the last 15 years and have exhibited their art all over the world. Most of their artwork app

Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting   (more info)

Initiated in 2003, the $35,000 Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting is Australia's richest annual landscape art prize, equivalent in prize money to the esteemed Archibald Art Prize for Portrait Painting. Details and entry form provided. The e

William Edwin Pidgeon   (more info)

Information on the life and works of 3 times Archibald Prize winner, cartoonist, illustrator and war correspondent, William Edwin Pidgeon (WEP). Read interviews, view the prize winners and more online.

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The Archibald Prize - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The annual Archibald Prize for portraiture is one of Australia's oldest and best-known visual arts awards. This prize was established in 2007 after the cancellation of the Art Gallery of New South Wal...

Richard Onn's journey to the Archibald Prize - ABC Hobart (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Library Museum and Gallery   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Painting   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Lifestyle and Leisure   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Event   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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Archibald Prize 2005: People's Choice winner   (website Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) )

This year over 36,000 voted in this year's People's Choice for the Archibald Prize and their favourite was Nicholas Harding's portrait Bob's daily swim. Nicholas Harding has been an Archibald finalist every year since 1994. He won the Archibald Prize in ...