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List Of Archibald Prize 2000 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2000 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Finalists As well as the usual Archibald with its set criteria, there was a Sporting Archibald which had a focus on sport due to the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Sydney Olympics. * Chris Antico – ''The Captain: Mark Taylor (cricketer), Mark Taylor'' (cricket captain) * Michael Bell – ''The Sandman'' (comedian Steve Abbott (comedian), Steve Abbott) * Simon Benz – Anna Millward, Anna Wilson (cyclist) * Melissa Beowulf – Ken Done (painter) * David Bromley (artist), David Bromley – ''Strongest man of the games'' (Dean Lukin, weightlifter) * Tom Carment – ''Presbyterian self-portrait'' * Tom Carment – Don Idle, footballer * Adam Cullen – Portrait of David Wenham (Winner: Archibald Prize 2000) * Adam Cullen – Portrait of Mark Occhilupo (surfer) * Max Cullen – Geoffrey Rush (actor) * Elisabeth Cummings – May Barrie * Geoffrey Dyer – Christopher ... [...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 Prize money *1921 – £400 *1941 – £443 / 13 / 4 *1942 – £441 / 11 / 11 *1951 – £500 *1970 – $2,000 *1971 – $4,000 *2006 – $35,000 *2008 – $50, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bell (Australian Actor)
John Anthony Bell (born 1 November 1940) is an Australian actor, theatre director and theatre manager. He has been a major influence on the development of Australian theatre in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Early life Bell was born 1 November 1940 in Newcastle, New South Wales, to a bank manager father and elocutionist mother. As the oldest child, he grew up alongside three younger sisters and a brother. At age 9 or 10, he moved with his family to the town of Maitland, New South Wales where he was educated at the Marist Brothers College. At school, he studied Shakespeare, where he developed and performed one-man stage shows. At the age of 15, he developed aspirations to become a Shakespearean actor after seeing Laurence Olivier as Henry V on screen. Bell auditioned for National Institute of Dramatic Art's (NIDA's) first intake in 1958 and was accepted, but his parents and teachers convinced him to go to Sydney University instead, where he studied an arts degree. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Campese
David Ian Campese, AM (; born 21 October 1962), also known as Campo, is a former Australian rugby union player (1982–1996), who was capped by the Wallabies 101 times, and played 85 Tests at wing and 16 at fullback. He retired in 1996 and was awarded the Order of Australia in 2002 for his contribution to Australian rugby. Campese is now a media commentator, working in broadcasting and print media, and international guest speaker. He also works as an ambassador to businesses including Coca-Cola Amatil, DHL, Adidas, Ladbrokes, and Investec. Career summary Campese debuted for the Wallabies on the 1982 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand, during which he scored one try in each of his first two Tests. In 1983, he equalled the then Australian record for most tries in a Test, scoring four for Australia against the USA. He toured with the Eighth Wallabies for the 1984 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland that won rugby union's grand slam, the first Aus ... [...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, D.C.. In 1999, his portrait of Bryce Courtenay AM was hung in the Archibald Salon des Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kostya Tszyu
Konstantin Borisovich "Kostya" Tszyu ( ; rus, Константин Борисович «Костя» Цзю, , kənstɐnʲˈtʲin bɐˈrisəvʲɪtɕ ˈkosʲtʲə ˈdzːʲu; born 19 September 1969) is a Russian-Australian former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2005. He held multiple world championships in the light-welterweight division, including the undisputed and lineal championships between 2001 and 2005. Tszyu was an exceptional all-around boxer-puncher who relied heavily on accuracy, timing, and carried formidable punching power; he is often regarded as one of the hardest-punching light-welterweights in the division's history, and one of the greatest light-welterweights of all time. As an amateur, Tszyu represented the Soviet Union, winning a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1989 World Championships, and gold in the light-welterweight division at the 1991 World Championships. He also won consecutive gold medals at the 1989 and 1991 Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padraic McGuinness
Padraic Pearse "Paddy" McGuinness (27 October 1938 – 26 January 2008) was an Australian journalist, activist, and commentator. He began his career on the far left, then worked as a policy assistant to the more moderate Labor parliamentarian Bill Hayden. Later he found fame as a right-wing contrarian and finished his career as the editor of the conservative journal, '' Quadrant''. He had also worked as a columnist for ''The Australian'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and as the editor of '' The Australian Financial Review''.Former Quadrant editor McGuinness dies, aged 69 " '''', 27 January 2008 Early life M ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Carr (athlete)
Edwin William Carr Jr. (2 September 1928 – 25 March 2018) was an Australian athlete and a surgeon. He won two gold medals at the 1950 British Empire Games in the 440 yards and 4 x 440 yard relay. He represented Australia at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and was the son of Slip Carr who ran for Australia at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School (SCEGS) at North Sydney from 1938 to 1946. He was U16 school champion athlete in 1944, open champion (1946), then GPS 440 yds champion (1945, 1946), and All Schools champion over 100 yds and 440 yds. In 1947, he commenced medical studies at the University of Sydney and joined the university athletic club (SUAC). In 1949, he toured New Zealand with an Australian athletic team. He returned there in 1950, running at the Empire Games (the forerunner of the modern Commonwealth Games), and won gold medals in the individual 440 yds (47.9s) and the 4x440 yd relay. Carr went on to repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi (27 February 1936 – 16 September 2023) was an Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality. Regarded as one of the greatest and most important figures in the history of the game, Barassi was the first player to be inaugurated into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a "Australian Football Hall of Fame#Legends, Legend", and he is one of four Australian rules footballers to be elevated to the same status in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards, Sport Australia Hall of Fame. When Barassi was five years old, his father, Melbourne Football Club player Ron Barassi Sr., died in action at Siege of Tobruk, Tobruk during World War II. Barassi was determined to follow in his father's footsteps at Melbourne, and heavy lobbying by the club to recruit him resulted in the introduction of the father–son rule, still in use by the Australian Football League, AFL today. Barassi subsequently lived with Norm Smith, Melbourne's then-coach and a former team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yu
John Samuel Yu (; born 12 December 1934) is a Chinese-born Australian paediatrician, hospital administrator, and art collector. He was CEO of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney from 1979 until 1997, presiding over its move to Westmead. He was named Australian of the Year for 1996. Early life and education John Samuel Yu was born in Nanking (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), China, on 12 December 1934. His father was a senior official in Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army in what was the Republic of China, established when the Kuomintang came to power in 1912 (later moving to Taiwan). The family was forced to flee China in 1937, when the Japan invaded China, occupying the country until 1945. Yu's mother was a Chinese Australian whose family had been in Australia since 1867. He had to be smuggled out of China at the age of two, hidden in a basket under bedclothes. He arrived in Sydney in 1939 with his mother and sister on a passenger ship from Hong K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Summers
Anne Summers (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian writer and columnist, best known as a leading feminist, editor and publisher. She was formerly First Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Status of Women in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Her contributions are also noted in The Australian Media Hall of Fambiographical entry Early life Born Ann Fairhurst Cooper in Deniliquin, New South Wales in 1945, the oldest of the six children of AHF and EF Cooper,Herd, Margaret (ed.), ''Who's Who in Australia'', 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002 Summers grew up in a strict Catholic household in Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at a Catholic school in Adelaide. In her autobiography, she writes that her father (an aviation instructor) was an alcoholic and that she had a difficult relationship with her mother. Leaving school at 17, Summers left home to take up a position in a bank in Melbourne. She then worked as a bookshop assistant until 1964 whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susie Maroney
Susan Jean Maroney (born 15 November 1974) is an Australian former marathon swimmer. In 1997, aged 22, Maroney was the first woman and second person to swim the Florida Straits from Cuba to the United States with a shark cage. In 1998 she swam a record from Mexico to Cuba, covering the longest distance at the time swum without flippers in open sea. Early life Susan Jean Maroney was born on 1 January 1974.Maroney, Susie (Susan Jean) (1974 - ) The Australian Women's Register, The National Foundation for Australian Women. She was born with , which she kept secret until 2007, when she and her mother Pauline revealed it on the TV talk show '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Les Patterson
Sir Leslie Colin Patterson is a fictional character created and portrayed by Australian comedian Barry Humphries. Patterson is obese, lecherous and offensive. His typical stage costume includes a tangle of hair, makeup suggesting an alcoholic's rosacea, grotesque teeth, a loud tie, a shirt covered with food stains, and padded pants that indicate an enormous penis. Character origins By Humphries' own account, the character of Patterson first appeared in a one-man show that he performed at the St. George leagues club in Sydney in January 1974.Humphries, Barry. ''A Nice Night's Entertainment'', pp. 178–83. Appearing in the guise of the boorish, loud-mouthed and uncultured Patterson, Humphries claimed to be that club's own entertainments officer as he introduced the next act, Dame Edna Everage. As Humphries recalled, "I understood later that many members of the audience thought Les was genuinely a club official, which says a lot for his charm and sincerity". Later that same year, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
