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Archibald prize 2016

News on the Archibald prize, Australia's most high profile portrait award

September 2016

  • Deng Adut and Nick Stathopoulos

    Archibalds: Nick Stathopoulos' hyperreal portrait of Deng Adut wins people's choice

    Sudanese refugee and lawyer says it is hard to look at, ‘not least because my nose looks so big!’

July 2016

  • King Ken (Ken Done in his studio) by 2016 Archibald prize finalist Marc Etherington

    Archibald prize 2016 review – a typically debatable portrait beats some very worthy work

    Louise Hearman’s looming half-figure of Barry Humphries may have scooped the prize, but in a just alternate universe, Nick Stathopoulos’s portrait of Deng Thiak Adut or Marc Etherington’s painting of Ken Done would have been rewarded
  • Louise Hearman

    Louise Hearman wins Archibald prize for Barry Humphries portrait

    Hearman says the Dame Edna creator was ‘a very difficult person to paint ... he’s all things at once’
  • George Calombaris, MasterChef, by Betina Fauvel-Ogden

    The Archibald prize finally hit gender parity but where are the women on the walls?

    Dee Jefferson
    The Archibald prize celebrates portraits of Australians ‘distinguished in art, letters, science or politics’. So how come so few are of women?
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