Good morning and welcome to our coverage of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes for 2024. These are three of the most coveted prizes in the Australian art world and we are expecting winners to be announced from noon today. Some of the finalists in the 2024 Archibald Prize.
The $100,000 103-year-old Archibald Prize for portraiture was first awarded in 1921. This year, it attracted more than 1000 entries, reduced to 57 finalists. The $50,000 Wynne Prize is Australia’s oldest art prize for Australian scenery or sculpture.
It was first held in 1897. The $40,000 Sulman Prize for genre painting or mural projects dates back to 1936. The exhibition featuring artworks by the three art prize finalists opens on June 8 and continues until September 8.
It will then tour regional NSW and the Northern Territory. One of the rules of the Archibald Prize is that there must be at least one face-to-face sitting between sitter and artist. Caroline Zilinsky went on set of the filming of Narrow Road to the Deep North to sketch actor Jacob Elordi.
The five-part series, based on the novel by Richard Flanagan and directed by Justin Kurzel, also stars Odessa Young and was filmed in NSW. Artist Sean Gladwell travelled all the way to Belmarsh prison in the UK, for his sitting with Julian Assange. It was one of the most inventive attempts at a live sitting, said Archibald curator Wayne Tunnicliffe.
Shaun Gladwell’s ‘A spangled symbolist portrait of Julian Assange floating in reflection’. “He .
