The annual Archibald Prize is the most prestigious portrait competition in Australia and hosted by Sydney’s Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW). The exhibition also includes the Sulman Prize (genre or subject) and the Wynn Prize (landscape).
The Archibald Prize began in 1921 and has captured a following of artists and art enthusiast for decades. The portrait, as stated on the AGNSW website, is required to be ‘…preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics, painted by any artist resident in Australasia’.
The number of entries has increasing annually with 1068 entries in 2020 submitted and only 55 finalists selected.
In 2012, Luke Cornish (aka E.L.K.) became the first street artist to be a finalist of the Archibald Prize with his imagery of Melbourne personality and religious leader ‘Father Bob’ (Father Robert John Maguire).
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