Winner Archibald Prize 2025, Julie Fragar ‘Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene)’, oil on canvas, 240 x 180.4 cm
© the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter
Justene Williams defined the universe in her art. Julie Fragar painted her doing this, and won the Archibald.
Winner Archibald Prize 2024, Laura Jones, Tim Winton, oil on linen, 198 x 152.5 cm.
© the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter
This year’s Archibald Prize-winning painting by Laura Jones is of an angst-ridden Tim Winton, contemplating the degradation of our planet
Archibald Prize 2024 finalist, Shaun Gladwell ‘A spangled symbolist portrait of Julian Assange floating in reflection’, oil and aluminium flakes on canvas, 151.5 x 112 cm © the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter.
This year’s Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition is well worth a visit – something no self-respecting art critic would have said in the past.
Winner Archibald Prize 2023, Julia Gutman, Head in the sky, feet on the ground, oil, found textiles and embroidery on canvas, 198 x 213.6 cm © the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter.
This year’s Archibald and Wynne Prize winners show that a new generation of artists have now entered the mainstream.
Archibald Prize 2023 finalist, Jill Ansell, Looking east, oil on board and assemblage in found tin, 10.8 x 16.5 cm
© the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter
The Archibald Prize and the Royal Easter Show have a great deal in common. Both are enjoyed by the general public, but the entrants in the competitions are very serious about winning.
Detail from Tom Polo.
‘I once thought I’d do anything for you
(Joan)’
acrylic on canvas
152.5 x 101.5cm
© the artist Photo: AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins
The lively reconfiguring of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman exhibitions means it is harder to work out which paintings the judges are considering as potential winners.