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Nicholas Harding
Nicholas Harding (1956 – 2 November 2022) was a British-born Australian artist, known for his paintings, in particular portraits. Early life Harding was born in London, England in 1956. In 1965 his family emigrated to Australia, settling in the Sydney suburb of Normanhurst. He became an Australian citizen in 1974. Career Harding is known for his oil paintings done in a thickly layered impasto technique, his watercolours, and his large scale drawings in ink, mainly for landscape subjects; he is also an acclaimed portrait artist. Recognition and awards Harding won the Archibald Prize in 2001 with a portrait of John Bell as King Lear. He also won the People's Choice Award at the 2005 Archibald, with ''Bob's Daily Swim''. He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize for thirteen years in a row from 1994 to 2006, and also in 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020. Harding was exhibited in the finalists for the Sulman Prize in 1981, 2003, 2006 and the Wynne Prize in 1994, 1996, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archibald Prize 2009 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2009 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Anthony Bennett – '' self-portrait in the bathroom discussing beauty, bukowski and brett whiteley with my ex, now a stripper, who likes to dress as wonder woman'' * Ann Cape – '' Lucy & friend'' * Adam Chang – '' Spirit of an ancient culture'' * Mike Chavez – '' Portrait of a bad muthaf***a'' * Jun Chen – '' Ray Hughes and five other moods'' * Zhansui Kordelya Chi – '' Good morning, this is Neil Mitchell'' * Yvette Coppersmith – '' John Safran'' * Sam Cranstoun – '' Gyton'' * Leeanne Crisp – '' Considering Persephone. Portrait of Gay Bilson'' * Ngaire Devenport – '' Ken Done'' * Vincent Fantauzzo – ''Brandon'' (Brandon Walters) (Winner of the People's Choice Award) * Hong Fu – '' Dame Elisabeth Murdoch'' * David Griggs – '' Zoloft nation (self-portrait)'' * Peter Hanley – '' Remembering Titian'' * Robert Hannaford – '' Self-portrait'' * Nich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Portrait Gallery (Australia)
The National Portrait Gallery (NGPA) in Canberra is a public art gallery containing portraits of prominent Australians. It was established in 1998 and moved to its present building on King Edward Terrace in December 2008. History In the early 1900s, the painter Tom Roberts was the first to propose that Australia should have a national portrait gallery, but it was not until the 1990s that the possibility began to take shape. The 1992 exhibition ''Uncommon Australians'' – developed by the gallery's founding patrons, Gordon and Marilyn Darling – was shown in Canberra and toured to four state galleries, igniting the idea of a national portrait gallery. In 1994, under the management of the National Library of Australia, the gallery's first exhibition was launched in Old Parliament House. It was a further four years before the appointment of Andrew Sayers as inaugural Director signalled the establishment of the National Portrait Gallery as an institution in its own right, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archibald Prize 2006 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2006 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Catherine Abel – ''Portrait of Julia Leigh'' *John Beard – ''Ken Unsworth'' *Danelle Bergstrom – ''Back to front – Kevin Connor'' *Kate Beynon – ''Year of the dog self-portrait'' *Tom Carment – ''Professor Muecke'', portrait of Stephen Muecke * Jun Chen – ''Joe Furlonger'' * Peter Churcher – ''Bruce, Linde and me on the road to Guadelupe'' *Adam Cullen – ''Edmund'', portrait of Edmund Capon *Geoffrey Dyer – ''The Abstractionist Graham Fransella'' *McLean Edwards – ''Cate Blanchett and family'' *Prudence Flint – ''Four wheel drive #2'', self-portrait *Robert Hannaford – ''Tim Flannery'' *Nicholas Harding – ''Robert Drewe (in the swell) 2006'' *Weaver Jack – ''Weaver Jack in Lungarung'', self-portrait *Paul Jackson – ''Garry McDonald "All the world's a stage..."'' (Winner of the 2006 People's Choice Award) *Jasper Knight – ''Sir Harold Kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Drewe
Robert Duncan Drewe (born 9 January 1943) is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer. Biography Robert Drewe was born on 9 January 1943 in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria. At the age of six, he moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia, Perth. He grew up on the West Australian coast and was educated at Hale School. He joined ''The West Australian'' as a cadet reporter. Three years later he was recruited by ''The Age'', where he became Sydney chief at the age of 21, later Literary Editor of ''The Australian''.Murray WaldrenRob Drewe: The Diviner(1996) Interview first published in ''The Australian Magazine''. Accessed: 11 October 2007 He was a columnist, features editor and special writer on ''The Australian'' and ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin''. Drewe won two Walkley Awards for journalism while working for ''The Bulletin''. He was awarded a Leader Grant travel scholarship by the United States Government. During the 1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centenary Medal
The Centenary Medal is an award which was created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the centenary of the Federation of Australia and to recognise "people who made a contribution to Australian society or government". It was also awarded to centenarians, Australian citizens born on or before 31 December 1901 who lived to celebrate the centenary of federation on 1 January 2001. Nominations were assessed by a panel chaired by historian Geoffrey Blainey Geoffrey Norman Blainey (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, best selling author and commentator. He is noted for having written authoritative texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including '' The Tyranny .... Medal Design The obverse of the medal features a seven-pointed Commonwealth Star representing the six Australian states, with the seventh point representing Australia's territories. At the centre of the star is an Indigenous styling of Aborigina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobell Drawing Prize
The Dobell Drawing Prize is a biennial drawing prize and exhibition, held by the National Art School in association with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.The prize is an open call to all artists and aims to explore the enduring importance of drawing and the breadth and dynamism of contemporary approaches to drawing. About The Dobell Drawing Prize is one of the highest value prizes for drawing in Australia. The prize had previously been held in conjunction with the Archibald Prize, Sulman Prize, Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW. The Dobell Drawing Prize, now held at the National Art School, runs in alternative years to the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The prize was initiated by the Trustees of the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation. In 2003, the prize money was $20,000. This was increased to $25,000 in 2009 and increased again to $30,000 (AUD) in 2019 when the Prize was relocated to The National Art School. The exhibiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eora
The Eora (''Yura'') are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales. Eora is the name given by the earliest European settlers to a group of Aboriginal people belonging to the clans along the coastal area of what is now known as the Sydney basin, in New South Wales, Australia. The Eora share a language with the Darug people, whose traditional lands lie further inland, to the west of the Eora. Contact with the first white settlement's bridgehead into Australia quickly devastated much of the population through epidemics of smallpox and other diseases. Their descendants live on, though their languages, social system, way of life and traditions are mostly lost. Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity occurred in and around Sydney for at least 30,000 years, in the Upper Paleolithic period. However, numerous Aboriginal stone tools found in Sydney's far western suburbs gravel sediments were dated to be from 45,000 to 50,000 years BP, which would mean that humans could ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Gallery Of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest in Australia. The gallery's first public exhibition opened in 1874. Admission is free to the general exhibition space, which displays Australian art (including Indigenous Australian art), European and Asian art. A dedicated Asian Gallery was opened in 2003. History 19th century On 24 April 1871, a public meeting was convened in Sydney to establish an Academy of Art "for the purpose of promoting the fine arts through lectures, art classes and regular exhibitions." Eliezer Levi Montefiore (brother of Jacob Levi Montefiore and nephew of Jacob and Joseph Barrow Montefiore) co-founded the New South Wales Academy of Art (also referred to as simply the Academy of Art)Published online 2014 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulman Prize
The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, having been established in 1936. It is now held concurrently with the Archibald Prize, Australia's best-known art prize, and also with the Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney. Criteria The Sir John Sulman Prize is awarded each year for "the best subject/genre painting and/or murals/mural project executed during the two years preceding the losingdate", and as of 2008 is valued at $20,000. Media may be acrylic, oil, watercolour or mixed media, and applicants must have been resident in Australia for five years."Major art prizes: Sir John Sulman Prize" |
List Of Archibald Prize 2020 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2020 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available. * - ''Untitled self-portrait'' * - ''Self-portrait entering the Archibald'' * - ''With Tudo and the robe'' * - ''Madonna'' (Portrait of Madonna Staunton) * - ''My dad, Churchill Cann'' * - ''The art dealer: '' * - ''Portrait of Adam Spencer'' * - ''Self-portrait with Daddy in the daisies, watching the field of planes'' * - ''Soils for life'' (Portrait of Charlie Maslin) * - ''Tara'' (Portrait of Tara Badcock) * - ''Angela'' (Portrait of Angela Tiatia) * - ''The Irish immigrant – portrait of Claire Dunne '' * - ''Writing in the sand'' (Portrait of Dujuan Hoosan) * - ''David, Teena and the black dog'' (Portrait of David Capra) * - ''Sleeping beauty (portrait of Michael Reid OAM)'' * - ''Richard'' (Portrait of ) * - ''Disquietude'' (Portrait of daughter Grace) * - ''Annabel, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Archibald Prize 2018 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2018 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed is Artist – ''Title''. (As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available.) * Benjamin Aitken – ''Natasha'' (Portrait of Natasha Bieniek â€Image * Del Kathryn Barton – ''Self-portrait with studio wife'' * Jason Benjamin – ''So you want to come down and the silence of painting (self-portrait)'' * Peter Berner – ''Self-portrait with hindsight'' * Amber Boardman – ''Self-care exhaustion'' * Joanna Braithwaite – ''Hall of fame – portrait of Pat Corrigan'' * Jun Chen – ''Judith Bell'' * Yvette Coppersmith – ''Self-portrait, after George Lambert'' Winner: Archibald Prize 2018 * Tony Costa – ''Claudia Chan Shaw'' * Jonathan Dalton – ''Abdul'' * David Darcy – ''Charlotte'' * Amanda Davies – ''Self-portrait'' * Blak Douglas –'' Uncle Roy Kennedy'' * Graeme Drendel – ''Portrait of Michel'' * Yvonne East – ''The Honourable Chief Justic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
