Bald Archy Prize

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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.

[edit] List of Winners

Year - Artist - Title (Subject)

  • 1994 - Rocco Fazzari - Yuk! Mr Edmund Capon (Edmund Capon)
  • 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)
  • 2006 - Matt Adams - Brown-Stain Janus-Faced (John Olsen)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Irreverent portrait of Danish royals wins Australian art prize, BruneiDirect.com AFP, 11 March 2008 (+ accessed)
Australian art awards
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