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List Of Archibald Prize 1996 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 1996 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Davida Allen – Anne Purves in purple * Rick Amor – Portrait of Paul Boston * Judy Cassab – Robert Juniper * Kordelya Zhansui Chi – 'Wrap time' portrait of John Ruane * Kordelya Zhansui Chi – Hon Ms Jan Wade MP * Peter Churcher – Betty at Home (Betty Churcher) * Kevin Connor – Self-portrait in the Louvre food hall * Graeme Davis – Chris Mann reading murder mysteries with pink curtain *Geoffrey Dyer – Claudio Alcorso * Joe Furlonger – Dr Harold Schenberg * Francis Giacco – Family self-portrait * Robert Hannaford – Self-portrait (Winner: People's Choice) * Robert Hannaford – Cheryl Hurst *Nicholas Harding – Portrait of Barry O'Keefe * Paul Jackson – Self and Tui *Kerrie Lester – James Morrison with flugelhorn * Jocelyn Maughan – Paul Ashton Delprat, artist * Lewis Miller – Portrait of Allan Mitelman * Paul Newton – Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archibald, the editor of ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' who died in 1919. It is administered by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and awarded for "the best portrait, preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics, painted by an artist resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the date fixed by the trustees for sending in the pictures". The Archibald Prize has been awarded annually since 1921 (with two exceptions) and since July 2015 the prize has been Australian dollar, AU$100,000. Winners *List of Archibald Prize winners Prize money *1921 – £400 *1941 – £443 / 13 / 4 *1942 – £441 / 11 / 11 *1951 – £500 *2006 – $35,000 *2008 – $50,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Morrison (musician)
James Lloyd Morrison AM (born 11 November 1962) is an Australian jazz musician. Although his main instrument is trumpet, he has also performed on trombone, tuba, euphonium, flugelhorn, saxophone, clarinet, double bass, guitar, and piano. He is a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels. He composed and performed the opening fanfare at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. In 2009, he joined Steve Pizzati and Warren Brown as a presenter on ''Top Gear Australia''. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 Morrison and a cappella group, The Idea of North, won Best Jazz Album, for their collaboration on ''Feels Like Spring''. In 2012 Morrison was appointed as Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival for the 2013 and 2015 festivals. He was inducted into the Graeme Bell Hall of Fame 2013 at the Australian Jazz Bell Awards. In July 2013 he conducted the World's Largest Orchestra in Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, consisting of 7,224 musicians. In Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ernest Morrison
George Ernest Morrison (4 February 1862 – 30 May 1920) was an Australian journalist, political adviser to and representative of the government of the Republic of China during the First World War and owner of the then largest Asiatic library ever assembled. Early life Morrison was born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. His father George Morrison who emigrated from Edinkillie, Elgin, Scotland, to Australia in 1858, was headmaster of The Geelong College where Morrison was educated. George, senior, married Rebecca Greenwood, of Yorkshire, in 1859 and Morrison was the second child of the marriage. Three of Morrison's seven uncles were rectors of the Presbyterian Church and two of the four others principal (Alexander) and master (Robert) of Scotch College, Melbourne, where George, senior, also taught mathematics for six months. Another Uncle, Donald Morrison was the Rector of The Glasgow Academy between 1861 until 1899. He won Geelong College's Scripture History gold medal in 1876 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shen Jiawei
Shen Jiawei (born 1948) is a Chinese-Australian painter. He is a winner of the 2006 Sir John Sulman Prize. Life and work Shen Jiawei was born in Shanghai and emigrated to Australia in 1989 after he was compelled to leave China because he painted heroes of the Chinese nationalist movement. He was largely self-taught and became popular with the Chinese government for his 'revolutionary' images of workers and soldiers. His best known work from that period, "Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland" (1974) was subsequently shown in the Guggenheim Museum, both in New York City and Bilbao, in the China: 5000 Years exhibition, 1998. In 1995 Shen won the Mary MacKillop Art Award and received a medal from Pope John Paul II. He is now one of Australia's leading portrait artists known for the academic and literary qualities of his works. Shen is also a painter of large-scale history pictures represented in major public collections; including the National Art Gallery of China and the Muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline McKenzie
Jacqueline Susan McKenzie (born 24 October 1967) is an Australian film and stage actress. Early life Born in Sydney, New South Wales, McKenzie attended Wenona School in North Sydney until 1983 then moved to Pymble Ladies' College, where she graduated in 1985 with her Higher School Certificate. Known at school for her fine singing voice, McKenzie was cast as Nancy in ''Oliver!'' then in ''Godspell'' (both a co-production with Shore School) and later in ''Brigadoon'' (a co-production with Knox Grammar School), sharing the stage with Hugh Jackman, who was a student at Knox at the time. Career Early years McKenzie studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of New South Wales. While at university, she began modelling. Represented by Cameron's Management, she worked in both print and television media. She also took regular singing lessons with Australian vocal coach Bob Tasman-Smith. In 1987, McKenzie was cast as the lead in the pilot of television series ''All Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Shead
Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker. His paintings are in many galleries in Australia and overseas, and he has won several awards, including the Archibald Prize in 1992. He has spent time in Japan, Papua New Guinea, France, Austria, and Hungary, returning to Australia in the 1980s. Early life and education Born in Sydney, New South Wales, he studied at the National Art School in the 1960s. Career He was a founding member of the Ubu Films collective in the late 1960s, with whom he made numerous experimental film works,Peter Mudie - ''Sydney Underground Movies: Ubu Films 1965-1970'' (UNSW Press, 1997) and he also worked for the ABC as an editor, cartoonist, filmmaker and scenic painter before his first major solo exhibition with Watters Gallery in Sydney. He was a friend of Brett Whiteley and participated in the famous Yellow House activities. He has shown in more than seventy group exhibitions and had over fifty solo exhibitions, as well as illustrating numerous bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Sharpe
Wendy Sharpe (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She is the only child of British parents and has a Russian Jewish heritage. Her father is the writer and historian Alan Sharpe. She counts among her influences paintings by Chaïm Soutine and Max Beckmann. /sup> She is the winner of numerous major awards including the Archibald Prize, the Sulman Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Prize and The Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize. She was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial as an official Australian War Artist in East Timor in 1999–2000 (the first woman since World War II). Her partner is artist Bernard Ollis. Work Sharpe is a mid-career Australian artist, who has held numerous shows both nationally and internationally, including over 59 solo exhibitions. Many of Sharpe's work include imagery of the everyday as well as self-portraits and alter egos. She works in multiple mediums from painting, to installation and perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Cox (director)
Paulus Henrique Benedictus Cox (16 April 194018 June 2016), known as Paul Cox, was a Dutch-Australian filmmaker who has been recognized as "Australia's most prolific film auteur". Background Cox was born to Else (née Kuminack), a German, and father Wim Cox, on 16 April 1940, in Venlo, Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, the Netherlands," Cinema has been 'abused horrifically'" Matthew Hays and Martin Siberok, ''The Globe and Mail'', 4 September 2000 after his brother (also named Wim) and sister Elizabeth, and was the eldest of sisters Jacoba, Angeline and Christa. Father, Wim Cox A documentary film producer and son of the publisher of the Catholic newspaper ''Nieuwe Venlosche Courant'', Cox senior in 1933 launched the lavishly illustrated, but ult ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Sages
Jenny Sages is an Archibald Prize People's Choice Award winning Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China. She is known for her abstract landscape paintings and portraits. She arrived in Australia in 1948. After being expelled from East Sydney Tech, Jenny moved to New York to study at Franklin School of Art. She was a freelance writer and illustrator for Vogue (magazine), Vogue Australia until the 1980s before starting full-time painting in 1985 at the age of 52. Her career transformation was greatly influenced by a trip to Kimberley, Western Australia, where she felt enchanted by the local indigenous culture. Her unique style is created using wax and pigments and the minimal use of brushes. Early life and career Jenny Sages was born in Shanghai, China, in 1933, and did not move to Sydney, Australia, until she was 14. Her parents were Russian, and she was their only child. During their time in Shanghai, her father sold silk for a living. The family decided to move to Sydn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Martin (television Presenter)
Raymond George Martin Order of Australia, AM (né Grace, 20 December 1944) is an Australian television journalist and entertainment personality. Having won the Gold Logie five times, he is the most awarded star of Australian television, along with Graham Kennedy (although Kennedy won the ‘Star of the Year Award’, the forerunner of the Gold Logie in 1959). He is best known for his various on-air roles on Nine Network, Channel Nine from 1978, particularly his stint on ''A Current Affair (Australian TV program), A Current Affair'' and his long tenure as host of the variety/talk show Midday (Australian TV program), ''The Midday Show'', after original host Mike Walsh (TV host), Mike Walsh left as host of a similar midday format with ''The Mike Walsh Show''. In 2011, he returned to the current affairs show ''60 Minutes (Australian TV program), 60 Minutes'', in which he had been an original presenter, albeit only in a part-time capacity. Early life and education He was born Raymon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josonia Palaitis
Josonia Palaitis (born 1949) is an Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia. She won the 1994 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of her father artist John Mills. In 1995 she won the Archibald Prize People's Choice award with a portrait of Bill Leak (artist and cartoonist for the Australian Newspaper). The National Portrait Gallery commissioned her in 2000 to paint its first portrait of an Australian Prime Minister to include their spouse, a portrait of John Howard and his wife Janette. In 2002 she was commissioned to paint the Childers Memorial Portrait which depicts the fifteen young backpackers who died in a hostel fire in Childers, Queensland in 2000. Her portrait '' Patrick Dodson, Yawuru Man'', (of chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Pat Dodson), was a finalist in the 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and is in the collection of the National Library of Australia. Other prominent people she has painted include: * musician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Laws
Richard John Sinclair Laws CBE (born 8 August 1935) is a Papua New Guinean-born Australian radio announcer. For 50 years, until 2007, he was the host of an Australian morning radio program combining music with interviews, opinion, live advertising readings and listener talkback. His distinctive voice earned him the nickname "the Golden Tonsils". Although officially retired between 2007–2011, he returned in February 2011 to host a morning program on 2SM and the Super Radio Network. Career Best known as a talkback radio broadcaster, Laws is one of Australia's highest-paid radio personalities and has been involved with Australian talkback radio broadcasting much longer than any other presenter. Although regularly commentating on topical news, Laws did not regard himself a journalist but as an entertainer and salesman. He is nonetheless one of the few commercial radio personalities whose interviews with state and federal political leaders are considered to have a significant i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
