Bald Archy Prize

Bald Archy Prize

The Bald Archy is an Australian art prize, a parody of the Archibald Prize. It usually includes cartoons or humorous works of art making fun of Australian celebrities. It is supposedly judged by Maude, a cockatoo. It began in 1994 at the Coolac Festival of Fun, in the tiny town of Coolac near Gundagai, New South Wales but is now a big event shown in Sydney, Melbourne and other locations.

Since 2005 the home of this art competition and its accompanying exhibition is the Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga; however, in 2008, the prize was announced during the Canberra leg of the national tour.

List of Winners

Year - Artist - Title (Subject)

*1994 - Rocco Fazzari - "Yuk! Mr Edmund Capon" (Edmund Capon)

*1995 - Alan McClure - "Kerry's Goal" (Kerry Packer)

*1996 - Rocco Fazzari - "Warhead" (Jeff Kennett)

*1997 - Vincent de Gouw - "John Howard Washes His Hands Of Pauline Hanson (Apologies To Manet)" (John Howard, Pauline Hanson)

*1998 - Peter Wilkinson - "Shane Warne: What Me Worry?" (Shane Warne)

*1999 - Eric Lobbecke - "Cyclops - Government's One-eyed Nemesis" (Brian Harradine)

*2000 - Dave Ross - "Yes Possums! It's Australia's First Lady and Patron Of The Bald Archys" (Dame Edna Everage)

*2001 - Eric Lobbecke - "The Skase Chaser" (Amanda Vanstone)

*2002 - Xavier Ghazi - "Mutant" (Ian Thorpe)

*2003 - Louise Klein - "What Odds?" (Robbie and Gai Waterhouse)

*2004 - Xavier Ghazi - "I'll Eat You In The End" (Rupert Murdoch)

*2005 - Tony Sowersby - "The Cardinal With His Abbott" (Cardinal George Pell and Tony Abbott)

*2006 - Matt Adams - "Brown-Stain Janus-Faced" (John Olsen)

*2007 - Xavier Ghazi - "There's Nothing Like Barry" (Dame Edna Everage/Barry Humphries)

*2008 - James Brennan - "The Official Portrait of the Danish Royal Family" (Crown Prince Frederik, Crown Princess Mary, Prince Christian and Princess Isabella of Denmark) [ [http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/Mar08/120308/wn03.htm Irreverent portrait of Danish royals wins Australian art prize] , BruneiDirect.com AFP, 11 March 2008 (+ accessed)]

External links

* [http://www.wagga.nsw.gov.au/www/html/495-introduction.asp The Bald Archy Prize at the Museum of the Riverina]
* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/Arts/Pell-tolls-for-Bald-Archies/2005/05/04/1115092543961.html?oneclick=true Pell tolls for Bald Archies]

References


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