Friday 6 March 2009

Portrait Prize


A portrait of ARIA award-winning blind musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has won this year's Archibald Prize. It is a stunning picture in a competition where many varied artists convey a person through sometimes quite abstract forms. I'm still amazed today at just how short a period of time it seems since the last announcement of an Archibald winner twelve months ago.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am in love with this Archibald winning portrait. I have not enjoyed the last two. This one, to me, captures the spirit of the Archibald. The images we see on the Net do not capture the size of the portraits. Their enormous size adds to how stunning they are. I just love the Archibald!!!
Love
Debbie