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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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ARCHIBALD PRIZE ILLUSTRATED published for The Board of Trustees National Art Gallery of N.S.W. 70 Illustrations from Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Competitions for 1950. - National Art Gallery of NSW   (website Adelaide Booksellers )

Author Name: National Art Gallery of NSWTitle: ARCHIBALD PRIZE ILLUSTRATED published for The Board of Trustees National Art Gallery of N.S.W. 70 Illustrations from Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Competitions for 1950. Binding: SoftcoverEdition: 1st EditionPu...

Newspaper Article - In 1938, the first woman to win the Archibald Prize - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne In 1938, the first woman to win the Archibald Prize Obituaries, 14 January 2004, p. ...

Newspaper Article - Nigel Thomson Wins 1997 Archibald Prize - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Nigel Thomson Wins 1997 Archibald Prize &copy Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...

The Archibald Prize - NSW | NAVA | National Association for the Visual Arts   (website Visual Arts Net )

This area is only available to NAVA members and provides featured listings of opportunities including: grants, exhibitions, prizes, competitions and residencies. For more information members and non-members can purchase Money For Visual Artists, NAVA's co...

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...

Selecting and Judging the Archibald Prize : Art Gallery of New South Wales   (website Major Art Prizes )

The Archibald Prize is judged by the Gallery Trustees. The selected group of works for that year's Archibald are hung prior to the final judging. J.F.Archibald wanted a democratic portrait prize - and that democracy, rough-hewn as it may be, is delivere...

Aboriginal Archibald Prize winners : Art Gallery of New South Wales   (website Major Art Prizes )

How many Aboriginal artists have won the Archibald Prize? In 2006 the finalist Weaver Jack's self-portrait Weaver Jack in Lungarung was apparently the first Archibald Prize entry to be done in a traditional yet non-figurative style. The earliest known por...

Entering the Archibald Prize : Art Gallery of New South Wales   (website Major Art Prizes )

Can anyone enter the Archibald Prize? Anyone who has lived in Australia or New Zealand for a full year before the closing date and who pays the $30 handling fee, may enter the Archibald Prize. For further details about entering the Archibald Prize, or on...