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List Of Archibald Prize 2023 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2023 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed as Artist – ''Title''). Of the 949 entries received for the Archibald Prize, 57 artworks were selected as finalists. As the images are copyrighted, a link to each image is available through its reference. * Abdul Abdullah – ''Self-portrait after MD 2'' * Matt Adnate – ''Echoes of a teenage superstar'' * Jill Ansell – ''Looking east'' * Natasha Bieniek – ''Self-portrait, after Nora Heysen'' * Alanah Ellen Brand – ''Solomon Kammer: never enough'' * Angela Brennan – ''Portrait of Erik Jensen'' * Keith Burt – '' Sam Leach in his studio chair'' * Mitch Cairns – ''Elizabeth Pulie'' * Melissa Clements – ''In the driveway, 40°'' * Yvette Coppersmith – ''Lady Primrose Potter AC'' * Luke Cornish – ''Barrambiyarra (Awaken)'' ( Yvonne Weldon) * Emily Crockford – ''Jeff’s pink daisy eyelash clash'' * Cameron Dimopoulos – ''Limbo'' * Anh Do – ''Seeing Ruby'' (Archie Roach) * Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer, but portrait may be represented as a profile (from aside) and 3/4. History Prehistorical portraiture Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsering Hannaford
Tsering Hannaford is an Australian artist. In 2012 Tsering and her father Robert Hannaford were the "first father and daughter to show concurrently in ''Salon des Refusés'', an exhibition of Archibald entries", ''(Page includes a photo of the self-portrait hung in the Archibald 2012 ''Salon des Refusés''.)'' and in 2015 they were the first father and daughter selected as finalists for the Archibald Prize. Tsering is a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Susannah Hannaford. Early life and education Tsering Hannaford was born to shoemaker Shirley Andris and artist Robert Hannaford, who were living in West Hindmarsh. Also in 1987, Robert Hannaford bought a disused farmhouse and outbuildings at Peters Hill in the Mid North of South Australia near Riverton and converted them into a house and studio.John Neylon, "Chronology". pp154-160 in Sally Foster (2016) "Robert Hannaford", Art Gallery of South Australia, Tsering grew up in Riverton and West Hindmarsh, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danie Mellor
Danie Mellor (born 13 April 1971) is an Australian artist who was the winner of 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Born in Mackay, Queensland, Mellor grew up in Scotland, Australia, and South Africa before undertaking tertiary studies at North Adelaide School of Art, the Australian National University (ANU) and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. He then took up a post lecturing at Sydney College of the Arts. He works in different media including printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Considered a key figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art, the dominant theme in Mellor's art is the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultures. Since 2000, Mellor's works have been included regularly in National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibitions; in 2003 he was awarded a "highly commended", for his print ''Cyathea cooperi'', and in 2009 he won the principal prize, for a mixed media work ''From Rite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronni Kahn
Ronni Kahn (; née Hellmann; born 1952) is a South African-born Australian social entrepreneur, best known for founding the food rescue charity OzHarvest. Kahn, who emigrated to Australia from Israel in 1988, was awarded the Local Hero Award in 2010, as part of the Australian of the Year awards. In 2019, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). As of 2024, her organisation had delivered over 250 million meals in Australia. In 2019, Kahn initiated a sister organisation, SA Harvest, in her native South Africa. Early life and education Ronni Kahn was born and raised in Johannesburg in South Africa to Jewish parents, Abe Hellmann and his wife, Sylvia Hellmann (née Papilsky).From a hair-do to a guru: the three events that changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lewer
Richard Lewer is a Melbourne-based visual artist who works with video and animation, painting, drawing and performance. Lewer has been labelled as a contemporary social realist largely driven by a desire to explain patterns and connections within crime, sport and religion. Early life and education Lewer completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University from 1989 to 1992. He also holds a Master of Visual Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, from the University of Melbourne, 2000. Art practice Lewer is based in Melbourne and exhibits regularly in Australia and New Zealand. Awards and prizes Lewer won the Wallace Art Award in 2008 for a painting from a series called ''Skill, Discipline, Training''. In 2014, he was the 63rd recipient of the Blake Prize for Religious Art for his media work ''Worse Luck I’m Still Here''. Lewer was the winner of the Basil Sellers Art Prize in 2016, with his submission of a series of oil paintings titled 'The The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylie Kwong
Kylie Jane Kwong (born 31 October 1969) is an Australian television chef, author, television presenter and restaurateur. Early life and education Kwong attended Epping North School and Cheltenham Girls High School in Sydney. As a third-generation Chinese Australian, she learned the fundamentals of Cantonese cooking by her mother's side. She undertook much of her apprenticeship at Neil Perry's Rockpool and Wockpool, and later at Restaurant Manfredi. Career Kwong opened her first restaurant, ''Billy Kwong'', in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills. 'Billy' in the restaurant's name derives, not from the name of a family member, but from the partnership with Sydney celebrity chef Bill Granger under which the restaurant was founded. Kwong later became the sole owner of the restaurant under the original name. In 2014 Kwong relocated the restaurant to larger premises at Potts Point. ''Billy Kwong Potts Point'' was co-owned with Sydney and Hong Kong chef and restaurateur Andrew Cibej ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Terakes
Zoe Terakes () is an Australian actor. They are known for playing Reb Keane in the series '' Wentworth'' (2020–2021) and Hayley in the horror film '' Talk to Me'' (2022). Early life and education Terakes attended SCEGGS Darlinghurst for high school. Terakes had not considered acting as a career, until their grade 11 drama teacher recommended visiting an agent who ended up securing their work. They completed their HSC whilst appearing on stage in ''A View from the Bridge'', a theatre production in Sydney from director Iain Sinclair. Career Their work on ''A View from the Bridge'' led them to receive Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in an Independent Production, and as joint winner, the Best Newcomer Award. The production also scored Terakes a Helpmann Award nomination. At the age of 17, Terakes made their on-screen debut in the role of Pearl Perati, a homeless teenager, in ''ABC's Janet King'' alongside Marta Dusseldorp. Other theatre c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Leutwyler
Kim Leutwyler is an artist based in Sydney, Australia. She has exhibited her work in multiple galleries across both Australia and the United States. While creating a collection of pieces that utilize different mediums, she most frequently displays paintings that focus on progressive ideas of gender and beauty, as well as people who identify as queer. Personal life and education Born in the United States, Kim Leutwyler spent her formative years traveling and did not spend a substantial amount of time in any given area; she briefly lived in Chicago, Illinois, Arizona, and Connecticut. Leutwyler planned to study accounting after finishing her high school education, but an impulse led her to enroll in the art history program at Arizona State University. She focused almost exclusively on ceramics and printmaking, receiving bachelor's degrees in both Studio Art and Art History. Seeking to further her education, she later graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Greenwich
Alexander Hart Greenwich (born 28 November 1980) is an Australian politician. He is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of electoral district of Sydney, Sydney since the 2012 Sydney state by-election, 2012 Sydney by-election. He ran as an Independent politicians in Australia, independent and was backed by his predecessor, independent Clover Moore. He was also the co-chair of Australian Marriage Equality and one of the key leaders of the successful "Yes" campaign for the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey in 2017 and abortion legalisation within New South Wales in 2019. He is a proponent of LGBTQ rights in New South Wales, LGBTQ rights by helping to pass laws that respond to issues within the LGBTQ community. He helped legalise Assisted suicide in Australia#New South Wales, voluntary assisted dying in 2022. Early years and background Greenwich was born in New Zealand to a Georgians, Georgian father and Americans, American mother. His fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Karvan
Claudia Karvan (born 19 May 1972) is an Australian actress and producer. As a child actor, she first appeared in the film '' Molly'' (1983) and followed with an adolescent role in ''High Tide'' (1987). She portrayed a teacher in '' The Heartbreak Kid'' (1993) – the film was spun off into a TV series, ''Heartbreak High'' (1994–1999), with her character taken over by Sarah Lambert. Karvan's roles in television series include '' The Secret Life of Us'' (2001–2005), '' Love My Way'' (2004–2007), '' Newton's Law'' (2017) and '' Halifax: Retribution'' (2020). She won Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama at the AFI Awards (later rebranded as the AACTA Awards) for her appearance in '' G.P.'' (1996). She won two similar AFI Awards for her role in ''Love My Way'' (2005 and 2007) and in 2014 for her work in '' The Time of Our Lives'' (2013–2014). As a co-producer and co-writer on ''Love My Way'', she won three further AFI Awards for Best Drama Series in 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Packing Room 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, the editor of '' 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 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 – $50,000 *2013 – $60,000 *2012 – $75,000 *2015 – $100,000 Additional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cal Wilson
Cal Wilson (5 October 1970 – 11 October 2023) was a New Zealand stand-up comedian, author, radio and television presenter based in Australia. Wilson wrote the New Zealand sitcom ''Willy Nilly'' from 2001 until 2003. She then appeared in numerous comedy and television shows, including being the host of ''Sleuth 101,'' co-host of '' The Great Australian Bake Off,'' and voiced Petal and Thorn in the children's TV series ''Kitty Is Not a Cat''. Wilson also co-hosted several radio shows. Early life and education Wilson was born in New Zealand on 5 October 1970. After high school in Christchurch, she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Canterbury. Comedy career Wilson co-founded the Court Jesters improv group in 1990; she was part of the New Zealand team that won the World Theatresports title in Los Angeles in 1994. Wilson then moved to stand-up comedy full-time and in 1997 was the inaugural winner (with Ewen Gilmour) of New Zealand's most prestigious comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
