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List Of Archibald Prize 2002 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2002 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Finalists * Bruce Armstrong – Stuart Purves * David Bromley (artist), David Bromley – Charles Blackman * Tom Carment – Richard Neville (writer), Richard Neville * Peter Churcher – Monique * Adam Cullen – Chopper Read, Mark Brandon Read – author * Julie Dowling (artist), Julie Dowling – Henry * Geoffrey Dyer – The last survivor Alec Campbell * Esther Erlich – Deborah Conway * Neil Evans – Reflective self-portrait * David Fairbairn (artist), David Fairbairn – Dottore Vincenzo Blefari – mascherato Dottore Vincenzo Blefari – smascherato * Garry Foye – Portrait of Dr. Henry Stenning * Robert Hannaford – Linda Syddick Napaltjarri, Lynda Syddick Napaltjarri * Nicholas Harding – Rusty Peters * Brent Harris – Leo Schofield * Cherry Hood – Simon Tedeschi unplugged (Winner: Archibald Prize 2002) * James Hunt – Bora – (Anthony Mundi ... [...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] |
Cherry Hood
Cherry Hood is an Australian artist, best known for her oversized paintings of children's faces. Biography Cherry Alexandra Hood was born in Sydney in 1950, and is the great granddaughter of Australian photographer, Sam Hood. She attained a Master of Visual Art at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 2000. Her thesis investigated gender politics in art and culture, cultural mores and taboos surrounding the representation of the male body. Hood had countless solo and group shows while at university in artist-run spaces and is now represented and shows regularly At Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney, Heiser Gallery in Brisbane, Arc One Gallery in Melbourne. Her works have been collected by most major institutions in Australia and many corporate and private collections. Hood has had solo shows in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver. Hood prefers to work in watercolour, which she allows to bleed and drip, to produce her oversized paintings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archibald Prize 2003 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2003 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Finalists *Davida Allen – Philip Bacon, art dealer; reading a letter from Barry... * Rick Amor – Portrait of Lewis Miller *Danelle Bergstrom – Conversation with Margaret Olley * Warren Breninger – Self-portrait * Peter Churcher – Loti and Victor Smorgon * Kevin Connor – Self-portrait *Adam Cullen – Jimmy Little *Lucy Culliton – Self with subject (cock) *Geoffrey Dyer – Richard Flanagan (Winner: Archibald Prize 2003) * Martine Emdur – Claudia Karvan, Interior * David Fairbairn – Auto portrait DF * Julie Fragar – J. Lucy in quinachridone magenta *Robert Hannaford – Rabbi Apple *Nicholas Harding – Portrait of Margaret Whitlam A.O. * Ray Lawrence – Self * Mathew Lynn – Hetti Perkins * Lewis Miller – Hazel * Henry Mulholland – Dr Peter Elliott at home * David Naseby – Adam Cullen * Paul Procèe – PCD 2K03 (from the Faces series) *Jenny Sag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archibald Prize 2001 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2001 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Finalists * Bruce Armstrong – Peter Carey in Kelly country * Michael Bell – Kingo and Boofhead, Lavendar Bay * Danelle Bergstrom – The portrait and the painter (John Firth-Smith) * David Bromley – Long Tom * Tom Carment – John Gaden – summer portrait * Brendon Ross Darby – Ian Parmenter * Julie Dowling – Sister girl – Carol Dowling * Geoffrey Dyer – The director John Clark * Martine Emdur – Laughing on the inside – (Peter Berner) * Paul Fairweather – Exhibitors of exuberance, Mostyn Bramley-Moore: a tribute to Michael Milburn * Margarita Georgiadis – Excelle – Libbi Gorr * Guo Hua Cai – Lee Lin Chin * Robert Hannaford – Richard Maurovic * Nicholas Harding – John Bell as King Lear (Winner: Archibald Prize 2001) * Cherry Hood – Matthys * Bill Leak – Robert Hughes – nothing if not critical * Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Williamson .
She was a finalist in the 2009 Archibald Prize.
Jan Williamson is an Australian artist. She is a mother of nine children. She is known for winning the Archibald Prize Packing Room Prize twice in a row: in 2002 with a portrait of Jenny Morris—which also won the People's Choice Award—and again in 2003 with a portrait of actor Rachel Ward Rachel Claire Ward (born 12 September 1957) is an English-Australian References External links Official website [...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] |
Martin Sharp
Martin Ritchie Sharp (21 January 1942 – 1 December 2013) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. Career Sharp was born in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales in 1942, and educated at Cranbrook private school, where one of his teachers was the artist Justin O'Brien. In 1960, Sharp enrolled at the National Art School at East Sydney. He was one of the editors of '' Oz'', an Australia/UK alternative/ underground satire magazine published from 1963 to 1973 and associated with the international counterculture of that era. Sharp was called Australia's foremost pop artist. He wrote the lyrics of the Cream song "Tales of Brave Ulysses," and created the cover art for Cream's ''Disraeli Gears'' and ''Wheels of Fire'' albums. He designed at least two posters for Australia's premier contemporary circus, Circus Oz, including the 'World-famous'/'Non-Stop Energy' design. Later interests For most of the 1970s and beyond, Sharp's work and life was dominated by tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Newton (artist)
Paul Newton (born 1961) is an Australian artist. He has won the Archibald Prize Packing Room Prize twice: in 1996 with a portrait of radio announcer John Laws CBE; and, again in 2001 (along with the People's Choice award) with a portrait of characters Roy Slaven and HG Nelson. He has works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, and is a portrait artist for Parliament House, Canberra. He has painted Prime Ministers and Governor General Sir William Deane AC, KBE. Other portraits by Newton have been Archibald Prize finalists including paintings of model Kate Fischer in 1997, model Maggie Tabberer AM in 1999, and rugby player David Campese AM in 2000 (which was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery). He has also won portrait competitions in Philadelphia and the Portrait Society of America's 2003 International Portrait Competition in Washington DC. In 1999, his portrait of Bryce Courtenay AM was hung in the Archibald Salon des Refusés ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Miller (Australian Artist)
Lewis Miller (born 1959 in Melbourne) is an Australian painter and visual artist, known for his portraits and figurative works. History Miller's father Peter Miller was a painter in the social realist tradition. His sister Lisa Miller is an Australian singer-songwriter. He studied painting at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne from 1977 to 1979, and then travelled to London, Europe and Malaysia. He held his first solo exhibition in 1986 and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, state and private galleries. In 1998, he won the Archibald Prize, which brought him greater prominence and led to many further commissions. He has travelled widely, including to the US in 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2005. In 2003 and 2005, Miller was commissioned to produce a series of portraits of the scientists and technicians involved in the mapping of the human genome. His other commissioned portraits include Australian rules football coach Ron Barassi, mountaineer Sir Edmund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Volska
Anna Volska (born 1 December 1944 in Milanówek, Poland) is an Australian stage and television actress. She arrived in Australia when she was young and has acted from a young age. Television work Volska has appeared in many Australian television drama series, mostly in a guest role. Her first role was in 1965, where she had a small role in ''The Recruiting Officer''. In 1973, Volska had a leading role in ''Behind the Legend'' (where she played 'Helena Rubenstein'). She then appeared on '' A Country Practice'' from 1987 until 1991. In 2009, she had a recurring role in the final season of '' All Saints'' (as 'Katerina Ajanovic'). In 2010, Volska appeared on the telemovie ''Sisters of War'' playing the role of nun named Sister Cordula. Filmography FILM TELEVISION Theatre Volska has acted extensively in theatre in companies such as Nimrod Theatre Company and the Bell Shakespeare Company displayed great versatility in roles as varied as those from Shakespeare to modern Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Smart
Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart (26 July 1921 – 20 June 2013) was an expatriate Australian painter known for his precisionist depictions of urban landscapes that are "full of private jokes and playful allusions". Smart was born and educated in Adelaide where he worked as an Art teacher. After departing for Europe in 1948 he studied in Paris at La Grande Chaumière, and later at the Académie Montmartre under Fernand Léger. He returned to Australia 1951, living in Sydney, and began exhibiting frequently in 1957. In 1963, he moved to Italy. After a successful exhibition in London, he bought a rural property called "Posticcia Nuova" near Arezzo in Tuscany. He resided there with his partner until his death. His autobiography, ''Not Quite Straight'', was published in 1996. A major retrospective of his works travelled around Australian art galleries 1999–2000. Life Jeff Smart, as he was generally known for the first thirty years of his life, was born in Adelaide in 1921. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerrie Lester
Kerrie Lester (31 May 1953 – 5 April 2016) was an Australian artist''Who's Who in Australia'', ConnectWeb, 2016. who was a frequent finalist in the Archibald Prize for portraiture, although she never won the main prize. She was born to John Lester and Dolores Metcalfe at the Crown Street Women's Hospital in Surry Hills, Sydney in 1953, and studied fine arts at the National Art School and the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education between 1971 and 1975. She held her first solo exhibition in 1976. Lester was a finalist in the Archibald Prize sixteen times, but never won. She did win the associated Packing Room Prize in 1998, for her ''Self-portrait as a bridesmaid''—an allusion to the saying "Always a bridesmaid, never the bride" in relation to her missing out on the Archibald so regularly, and she stopped entering the competition in 2012. Nonetheless, the display of her work at the shortlist exhibitions increased her profile, and the National Portrait Gallery acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
