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ABC News
6 days ago
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- ABC News
Gardening Australia: Trailer
Gardening Australia Lifestyle Feel-Good Inspiring Watch Trailer Article share options Share this on Facebook Twitter Send this by Email Copy link WhatsApp Messenger Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening ideas, meet avid gardeners and look at some of the most inspiring gardens from across the country.
ABC News
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Gardening Australia: Series 36 Episode 11 Autumn: Perennial Paradise & Shade Strategies
Gardening Australia NEW EPISODE Lifestyle Feel-Good Inspiring Watch Article share options Share this on Facebook Twitter Send this by Email Copy link WhatsApp Messenger Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening ideas, meet avid gardeners and look at some of the most inspiring gardens from across the country.
Sydney Morning Herald
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Archibald Prize is turning a corner. Just not yet
The most obvious trend this year is the swing towards subjects being portrayed in their natural environments or surrounded by personal motifs – note Whitney Duan's portrait Rainbow Chan, of Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, who is perched before a lazy Susan, and Billy Bain's outback portrait of Rona Panangka Rubuntja ringed with ceramic icons. Multiculturalism has also arrived at AGNSW en masse. The companion children's competition, the Young Archie, has been flush with diverse faces for many years, while the Archibald remained stiffly Caucasian, with occasional exceptions. This year's hang finally resembles modern Australia: just over half the sitters are white, there are slightly more women than men, and more female artists than males. Sadly, there are no scientists or politicians — although, in the current climate, it's hard to imagine anyone regrets the absence of politicians. The upshot of an exhibition in flux is a wildly uneven show. There's an abundance of naïve works; too many figures appear crudely cut-and-pasted onto the background. And there's a conga line of lifeless celebrity pictures, the kind that usually appeals to the gallery's packers. Consider Jaq Grantford's double portrait of Nicole and Antonia Kidman, Col Mac's Miranda Otto, Kelly Maree's Jackie O, Jeremy Eden's elaborate portrait of Boy Swallows Universe teen star Felix Cameron, or Sally Ryan's Kathy Lette. Evan Shipard's floral oil-on-linen of Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis has popular appeal too. Among the more extraordinary portraits is Natasha Bieniek's modest oil on wood of Cressida Campbell, which captures the introverted artist with a surgeon's precision and an opera singer's heart. Callum Worsfold's tiny self-portrait is sunk into an overbearing black frame that makes the viewer feel as though they're peering into his studio through a slit in a door. Vipoo Srivilasa's self-portrait with cats is a joyous assembly of sketches on a yellow ceramic tile — an antidote to Chris O'Doherty (aka Reg Mombassa)'s haunting, raw self-portrait in hospital, capturing the 73-year-old artist in a moment of fragile health. Clara Adolphs' portrait of Aboriginal artist Adrian Jangala Robertson might win over the judges, and Natasha Walsh has captured a simmering energy in Melbourne's South Sudanese artist and writer Atong Atem. It's difficult to pick the winner from this exhibition in flux – which is also partly the product of immense change at AGNSW. Maud Page recently took over as director of an institution that has had just two leaders for the better part of 50 years: Michael Brand and Edmund Capon. The Archibald has a new curator responsible for the hang: Beatrice Gralton. The Archibald finalists and winner, along with those for the companion Wynne landscape and sculpture prize, are selected by the AGNSW Trust, now led by lawyer Michael Rose, who took over from businessman David Gonski, president for 19 of the last 37 years. Oscar-winning film producer Emile Sherman and former Liberal opposition leader and arts minister Peter Collins are also new additions to the trust.
The Age
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
The Archibald Prize is turning a corner. Just not yet
The most obvious trend this year is the swing towards subjects being portrayed in their natural environments or surrounded by personal motifs – note Whitney Duan's portrait Rainbow Chan, of Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, who is perched before a lazy Susan, and Billy Bain's outback portrait of Rona Panangka Rubuntja ringed with ceramic icons. Multiculturalism has also arrived at AGNSW en masse. The companion children's competition, the Young Archie, has been flush with diverse faces for many years, while the Archibald remained stiffly Caucasian, with occasional exceptions. This year's hang finally resembles modern Australia: just over half the sitters are white, there are slightly more women than men, and more female artists than males. Sadly, there are no scientists or politicians — although, in the current climate, it's hard to imagine anyone regrets the absence of politicians. The upshot of an exhibition in flux is a wildly uneven show. There's an abundance of naïve works; too many figures appear crudely cut-and-pasted onto the background. And there's a conga line of lifeless celebrity pictures, the kind that usually appeals to the gallery's packers. Consider Jaq Grantford's double portrait of Nicole and Antonia Kidman, Col Mac's Miranda Otto, Kelly Maree's Jackie O, Jeremy Eden's elaborate portrait of Boy Swallows Universe teen star Felix Cameron, or Sally Ryan's Kathy Lette. Evan Shipard's floral oil-on-linen of Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis has popular appeal too. Among the more extraordinary portraits is Natasha Bieniek's modest oil on wood of Cressida Campbell, which captures the introverted artist with a surgeon's precision and an opera singer's heart. Callum Worsfold's tiny self-portrait is sunk into an overbearing black frame that makes the viewer feel as though they're peering into his studio through a slit in a door. Vipoo Srivilasa's self-portrait with cats is a joyous assembly of sketches on a yellow ceramic tile — an antidote to Chris O'Doherty (aka Reg Mombassa)'s haunting, raw self-portrait in hospital, capturing the 73-year-old artist in a moment of fragile health. Clara Adolphs' portrait of Aboriginal artist Adrian Jangala Robertson might win over the judges, and Natasha Walsh has captured a simmering energy in Melbourne's South Sudanese artist and writer Atong Atem. It's difficult to pick the winner from this exhibition in flux – which is also partly the product of immense change at AGNSW. Maud Page recently took over as director of an institution that has had just two leaders for the better part of 50 years: Michael Brand and Edmund Capon. The Archibald has a new curator responsible for the hang: Beatrice Gralton. The Archibald finalists and winner, along with those for the companion Wynne landscape and sculpture prize, are selected by the AGNSW Trust, now led by lawyer Michael Rose, who took over from businessman David Gonski, president for 19 of the last 37 years. Oscar-winning film producer Emile Sherman and former Liberal opposition leader and arts minister Peter Collins are also new additions to the trust.
The Guardian
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Archibald prize 2025: Jason Phu portrait by Abdul Abdullah wins packing room prize
A portrait of the artist Jason Phu by Abdul Abdullah has won the $3,000 packing room prize at the annual Archibald prize. Phu is also a finalist with his portrait of Hugo Weaving and a sitter for Abdullah's winning painting, titled No Mountain High Enough, in which he is depicted sitting astride a horse. Abdullah won out of 57 finalists up for Australia's most presitigious portraiture award. This year's overall Archibald winner will be announced on 9 May. Now in its 34th year, the packing room prize is judged by a three-member panel drawn from the 40 AGNSW employees charged with receiving and handling this year's Archibald entries. Celebrity sitters are a the minority among the 2025 nominees; instead, artists have dominated this year, either by painting a self-portrait or one another. Actor Nicole Kidman and her sister Antonia, actor Miranda Otto and Boy Swallows Universe breakout star Felix Cameron are there, as is radio shock jock Jackie O, singer Katie Noonan, musician William Barton, activist Grace Tame, comedian Aaron Chen, Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis and author Kathy Lette. Despite it being just days before a federal election – or maybe because of it – politicians barely got a look in this year. The only nod to civic duty appears to be local government Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon, in Luke Cornish and Christophe Domergue's painting Blood, sweat and tears. Among the 57 finalists, a dozen are self portraits while 22 are portraits of another artist. Just over a third of the 2025 nominees are first-time finalists. Natasha Walsh is the subject of Jonathan Dalton's finalist work, and has also made the cut with her portrait of artist Atong Atem. No strangers to Archibald accolades themselves, Cressida Cambell is painted by Natasha Bieniek, Ken Done by Fiona Lowry, and Wendy Sharpe by Lucila Zentner. Previous Archibald winner Vincent Namatjira has painted himself this year, in his characteristically irreverent way that mining magnates do not seem to appreciate. A very ill-looking Chris O'Doherty, widely known as Reg Mombassa, has painted himself in hospital with a nose tube. And Mathew Calandra reimagines himself as Nightmare on Elm Street's villain Freddy Krueger, Yvette Coppersmith with a couple of cats and Vipoo Srivilasa with a lot of cats. On Thursday, the finalists were revealed across all three prizes – the $100,000 Archibald for portraiture, the $50,000 Wynne for landscape and sculpture, and the $40,000 Sulman for genre and mural painting. All three exhibitions will go on public display at the AGNSW from 10 May, until 17 August. The Archibald finalists will then head to Geelong, Gosford, Muswellbrook, Mudgee, Shoalhaven and Coffs Harbour later this year and in 2026. More to come
