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A Charity Preview for Autism Asperger ACT will be held from 6.30pm Thurs 7 March. The Bald Archy exhibition, at Watson Arts Centre, 1 Aspinall Street Watson, daily from 10am – 4pm, February 8 to March 11. Founded by theatre director and actor Peter Batey, 1 it is judged by Maude, a cockatoo. It usually includes cartoons or humorous works making fun of Australian celebrities. The winner of the 2013 Bald Archy Prize will be announced in Sydney on April 5. After a 20 year absence, Australia's most popular comic portrait competition, Bald Archy Exhibition is returning to Melbourne. The Bald Archy is an Australian art prize, which parodies the prestigious portraiture award, the Archibald Prize. But it’s death to be left out and neither Kevin Rudd nor Malcolm Turnbull is to be seen on canvas. The Archys are nothing if not cruel, as many of this year’s entries show, with even the Governor General rating a portrait. A strange phenomenon 2013 is the portrayal of all three with vampire-like fangs. The exhibition will run from 9 March - 8 April, is open week days from 9am- 5pm and weekends from 10am - 4pm at the ABC's Ultimo Centre, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo.BILLED as the only art competition in the world judged by a sulphur-crested cockatoo, (Maude from Coolac) the Bald Archy Prize is celebrating its 20th birthday with an opening this week at Watson Arts Centre.īreakfast with the Starworts, by Stefhan Elbourne, detailThe brainchild of Peter Batey, a former Canberra Repertory director and inventor/ director of the character Betty Blokkbuster for actor Reg Livermore, it is the antidote to the annual Archibald Prize and has become a Mecca for arts-minded cartoonists and satire-minded artists.Įach year the country’s satirists have a different take on society and, while popular targets this year are Prime Minister Julia Gillard (always a cartoonist’s dream), Tony Abbott and mining magnate Gina Rinehart.

Bald archy exhibition professional#

This year entries include daring and bold portraits of Australian characters such as Bill Henson, Julia Gillard, Andrew Denton, Morris Iemma, Nicole Kidman and many more painted by amateur and professional artists.īald Archy founder, Peter Batey OAM describes the exhibition as 'Irreverent, irrepressible, hilarious, satirical - the exhibition the man-in-the-street loves (and the arts snobs hate) - and the only exhibition in the world judged by a sulphur-crested cockatoo name Maude!' The Bald Archy Prize is known for attracting often controversial and humorous entries from around the country. In 2008, his satirical portrait of the Danish royal family in their underwear won the competition. James Brennan was thrilled to win for the second year in a row. The Bald Archy Prize art exhibition last toured in 2019 and was exhibited in the ACT, Queensland, Victoria and NSW venues and has previously toured to Wagga Wagga and the wider Riverina region. Beauty or Beast, Queenscliff Gallery, 2018. The winning entry, and the other 46 finalists are on exhibition in the ABC Ultimo foyer. They are portraits of people who dominate the front pages and television headlines, but are not necessarily heroes to everyone. PAST EXHIBITIONS Bald Archy Prize 2018, Watson Arts Centre ACT, 2018.

His portrait of racing identity Bart Cummings, called Old Owl Eyes Is backwas judged the winner of this year's competition.ħ02 ABC Sydney is hosting the 16th annual Bald Archy Prize exhibition, which opened today. Maitland based artist James Brennan has won the Bald Archy prize two years in a row.