Wynne Prize
This piece was co-authored by Carrie Miller and fellow Punch contributor Catharine Lumby.
If only Australians could bring the same level of focus and nuance to debates about art that we bring to debates about what the ref did in last weekend’s match.
Not that art trumps sport. They both matter. It’s just that – if you happen to know anything about the history of art – it’s really boring to hear the same debate repeated endlessly in the media. It’s a lot like watching Barry Hall punch the same guy in the head again and again. Quite rightly, fans want to see him punch different people in the head to keep things interesting.
The recent debate about Sam Leach’s Wynne prize-winning landscape- which involves a landscape that quotes from another landscape- is a great example of this banal and reductive debate.
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Art galleries have to be among the best places on earth. Cool, airy, spacious and full of natural light they’re a precious oasis in the middle of a busy day; especially for their seemingly magical ability to absorb sound and chaos, even when the throngs descend.
And descend they did at lunchtime today on the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the announcement of the winner of the 92nd Archibald Prize.
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NeilM says:
Christopher Allen has marked a great many points that I agree with. I’m not one of the losers this year because I did not enter. What Chris missed is that there were hundreds of other entries that the public did not see. Some of them are actually better paintings than… Read more »
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stephen says:
After what Christopher Allen wrote in The Australian last week, I wonder if any of the Artists - the losing ones, that is - are game to respond to his criticisms ? Read more »
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