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List Of Archibald Prize 1997 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 1997 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Rick Amor – Peter Carey (novelist), Peter Carey at the VACB Studio, Soho, New York * Tom Carment – Roger McDonald at work * Judy Cassab – Elwyn Lynn * Peter Churcher – Portrait of John Levi (rabbi), John S. Levi, first Australian Born Rabbi * Fred Cress – David Williamson * Adam Cullen – Portrait of Mikey Robins (comedian) * Elisabeth Cummings – Jean Appleton * Merilyn Fairskye – Jackie 2 * Joe Furlonger – Self-portrait with model * George Gittoes – John Olsen (Australian artist), John Olsen * Robert Hannaford – Paul Davies (scientist) * Nicholas Harding – Portrait of Kevin Connor * Bill Leak – Tex (Tex Perkins, Perkins) (Winner: Packing Room Prize) * Kerrie Lester – Janet Vernon in reflection * Mathew Lynn – Jeanne Ryckmans (Winner: People's Choice) Highly Commended * Jocelyn Maughan – Dr John Yu * Lewis Miller – Port ... [...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] |
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] |
Barbara Blackman
Barbara Blackman (née Patterson; 22 December 1928 – 4 October 2024) was an Australian writer and essayist, poet, librettist, radio broadcaster and interviewer, artist, artist's model and activist and philanthropist, who was a patron of the arts and a cultural polymath. She was married to artist Charles Blackman from 1952 and 1978, who was best known for his Alice in Wonderland paintings, and she featured as an artist model for Blackman. Blackman was known for her several memoirs and letter writings, and as an arts patron was a noted philanthropist, who in 2004, donated $1 million to a number of Australian music organisations, including Pro Musica, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian National University's School of Music and the Stopera Chamber Opera Company. In 2006, she was awarded the Australian Contemporary Music Award for Patronage, and was honoured with the Order of Australia (AO)in 2012. Early life Blackman was born as Barbara Patterson in Brisban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Thomson
Nigel Thomson (1945–1999) was an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize twice. Known for satirical paintings of Australian society. He studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and later taught artistic composition at that institution. He was art tutor at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He won the Archibald with '' Chandler Coventry'' in 1983, and ''Barbara Blackman'' in 1997. Thomson's painting of Patrick White's long-term partner, Manoly Lascaris was rejected from the 1995 Archibald and hung in the Salon des Refusés. He won the Sulman Prize in 1983 with ''Marat, The Unsophisticated will be Shocked by the Depiction of your Death: or, the Artist Answers His Critics''. This painting was based on Jacques-Louis David's famous painting '' Death of Marat'' showing Jean-Paul Marat dead in a bathtub. He jointly won the Sulman Prize in 1986 along with Wendy Sharpe Wendy Sharpe (born 24 February 1960) is an Australian artist who lives and works in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrie Kosky
Barrie Kosky (born 18 February 1967) is an Australian theatre and opera director. Based at the Komische Oper Berlin, he has worked internationally. Biography Kosky was born in Melbourne, the grandson of Jewish emigrants from Europe. He attended Melbourne Grammar School where he performed in Brecht's ''The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui'' in 1981, Shakespeare's ''Othello'' in 1982, and later directed his first play. Among many other later famous Australian artists, he also worked at the St Martins Youth Arts Centre. In 1985, he then began studies in piano and music history at the University of Melbourne. In 1988, he directed there at the Union Theatre Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' and Frank Wedekind's ''The Lulu Plays'', '' Earth Spirit'' and '' Pandora's Box''. Career In 1989, Kosky directed the Australian premiere of Michael Tippett's '' The Knot Garden'' (reduced version) at the Melbourne Spoleto Festival. He also directed Alban Berg's ''Lulu'' at the same festival. In 1990, he f ... [...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. He was in his final year of high school when the Cultural Revolution was launched in 1967. With the country's art universities closed, Jiawei instead chose to join the Red Guards and, later, the People’s Liberation Army. While in the PLA, he became a propaganda artist. He painted his best known work from this period, "Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland", while serving in Heilongjiang province in 1974. The piece was exhibited at the National Art Museum in Beijing later that year, where it received praise from Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Zedong, and was subsequently shown in the Guggenheim Museum, both in New York City and Bilbao, in the China: 5000 Years exhibition, 1998. The piece was later altered by other government artists without Jiawei's permission, in order for the soldier's faces "to adhere to the regime’s s ... [...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 numerou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiny Tim (musician)
Herbert Butros KhauryTiny Tim: Tiptoe Through A Lifetime', Lowell Tarling, Generation Books, 2013, p. 29, (April 12, 1932 November 30, 1996), also known as Herbert Buckingham Khaury, and known professionally as Tiny Tim, was an American musician and musical archivist. He is especially known for his 1968 hit recording of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips", a cover of the popular song "Tiptoe Through the Tulips with Me" from the 1929 musical '' Gold Diggers of Broadway''. Tiny Tim was renowned for his wide vocal range, in particular his far-reaching falsetto. Life and career Early years Tiny Tim was born Herbert Khaury in Manhattan, New York City, on April 12, 1932. His mother Tillie (), a Polish-Jewish garment worker, was the daughter of a rabbi. She had immigrated from Brest-Litovsk, present-day Belarus, as a teen in 1914. His father, Butros Khaury, was a textile worker from Beirut, present-day Lebanon, and the son of a Maronite Catholic priest. Tiny Tim himself was a devout Catho ... [...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 songs " Tales of Brave Ulysses and " Anyone for Tennis"," 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Sharpe
Wendy Sharpe (born 24 February 1960) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She has had many solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, been awarded many national awards and artist residencies for her work, and was an official Australian war artist to East Timor in 1999–2000. Early life and education Wendy Sharpe was born on 24 February 1960 in Sydney, Australia. She is the only child of British parents; her father is the writer and historian Alan Sharpe. She spent her early years in the Northern Beaches in Sydney, and from 1978 and 1979 she studied at Seaforth Technical College. She received a Graduate Diploma of Professional Art from the City Art Institute in Sydney in 1984, and a master's degree from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in 1995. Career Sharpe taught part-time at art schools for many years; including a position at the National Art School, Sydney. She works in oil paint creating large scale portrait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bass (sculptor)
Thomas Dwyer Bass, (6 June 1916 – 26 February 2010) was a renowned Australian sculptor. Born in Lithgow, New South Wales, he studied at the Dattilo Rubbo Art School and the National Art School. Bass served in the Second Australian Imperial Force during the Second World War, rising to the rank of sergeant. He established the Tom Bass Sculpture School in Sydney in 1974. In 1988, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to sculpture. In 2009, he was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Visual Arts (honoris causa) at the University of Sydney. A retrospective of his work, spanning 60 years, was exhibited at the Sydney Opera House between 9 November and 17 December 2006. Totem maker After graduating from the National Art School, Bass developed his philosophy of working as a sculptor as being the maker of totemic forms and emblems, that is, work expressing ideas of particular significance to communities or to society at large. Examples of his work include ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Weight
Greg Weight (born 2 December 1946 in Sydney, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...) is an Australian photographer specialising in fine art photography and portraiture. Greg was the inaugural winner of the Australian Photographic Portrait Prize in 2003 and his book ''Australian Artists, portraits by Greg Weight'' was published by Chapter and Verse in 2004. "Publishers of Fine Australian Photography." He was a member of the Yellow House artist's collective in the early 1970s. Margare ...
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