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Vincent Namatjira has won the 2020 Archibald Prize for his portrait of Adam Goodes, the first Indigenous artist to win in its 99 year history.
The $100,000 prize for portraiture was awarded in a small, socially-distanced and live-streamed event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday.
The 55 finalists for the Archibald, Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize, were revealed just last week, after a record 1068 entries were received.
Wongutha-Yamatji artist and performer Meyne Wyatt made Archibald history by winning the $1500 Packing Room Prize – judged by the gallery staff who receive, unpack and hang the Archibald entries.
In doing so, he became the first Indigenous person to win any of the prizes on offer in the 99 years the prize has been running.
Past winners of the the Archibald include luminaries of Australian visual art, including John Olsen, Del Kathryn Barton, Ben Quilty, Wendy Sharpe, Brett Whiteley and more.
This year’s finalists include works by Abdul Abdullah, Louise Hearman, Vincent Namatjira and Emily Crockford, with sitters including Annabel Crabbe, Behrouz Boochani and David Marr.
The Wynne and Sulman prizes were also awarded on Friday.
The Archibald usually opens in May, but it was postponed this year along with the Wynne and Sulman prizes due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The finalists will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW until 10 January, followed by a tour to regional NSW and Victoria in 2021.
More to come.
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