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AU Financial Review
01-05-2025
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- AU Financial Review
Art Gallery of NSW gives its ‘kiss of death' award
The Packing Room Prize – jokingly known as the 'kiss of death' award because no winner has gone on to claim the associated Archibald Prize – has been won by Abdul Abdullah. The Perth-born, Bangkok-based artist – a seventh-generation Australian who is also a Muslim – won the $3000 prize after his painting of friend and fellow artist Jason Phu was selected by the Art Gallery of NSW's 40-strong packing and installation team.
ABC News
01-05-2025
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- ABC News
Archibald 2025 Packing Room Prize won by Abdul Abdullah for portrait of Jason Phu
Abdul Abdullah has won the Packing Room Prize at this year's Archibald Prize for No mountain high enough, his portrait of Jason Phu. Abdullah is a six-time finalist in the Archibald Prize, with a self-portrait among the finalists in 2023. He is one of 57 finalists for this year's prize, held annually at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW). Since 1991, the Packing Room Prize, worth $3,000, has been chosen by the Art Gallery of NSW staff who handle the portraits in the gallery's packing room. Past winners of the Packing Room Prize include portraits of Other finalists for the $100,000 Archibald Prize include portraits of The finalists for the $50,000 Wynne Prize for landscape painting or figure sculpture, and the $40,000 Sulman Prize for a genre or subject painting or mural, were also announced on Thursday. The runs May 10-August 17 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Winners will be announced on Friday May 9. Loading
The Age
01-05-2025
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- The Age
Portrait of artist Jason Phu wins Packing Room Prize
A portrait of Jason Phu by Abdul Abdullah has taken out this year's $3,000 Archibald Packing Room Prize. The winning portrait, No Mountain High Enough, was announced at the Art Gallery of NSW this morning, selected from a pool of 57 finalists in the running for this year's Archibald Prize. Announcing the prize on behalf of the packing room team, Alexis Wildman said it was a difficult choice but the judges had been drawn to the portrait. In its 34th year, the Packing Room Prize is awarded a week before the naming of the official Archibald. It's judged by a panel of gallery staff who receive and unpack the artwork. Entries are assessed on their visual impact and artistic merit. Loading Last year's winner was a powerful portrait of Yolngu rapper and ARIA winner Baker Boy by street artist Matt Adnate. The 2025 Archibald Prize has received 904 entries, the Wynne Prize received 758 entries, and the Sulman Prize a record 732 entries. All up, 139 works have been selected as finalists across the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024: 57 finalists in the Archibald, 52 in the Wynne and 30 in the Sulman.
Sydney Morning Herald
01-05-2025
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- Sydney Morning Herald
Portrait of artist Jason Phu wins Packing Room Prize
A portrait of Jason Phu by Abdul Abdullah has taken out this year's $3,000 Archibald Packing Room Prize. The winning portrait, No Mountain High Enough, was announced at the Art Gallery of NSW this morning, selected from a pool of 57 finalists in the running for this year's Archibald Prize. Announcing the prize on behalf of the packing room team, Alexis Wildman said it was a difficult choice but the judges had been drawn to the portrait. In its 34th year, the Packing Room Prize is awarded a week before the naming of the official Archibald. It's judged by a panel of gallery staff who receive and unpack the artwork. Entries are assessed on their visual impact and artistic merit. Loading Last year's winner was a powerful portrait of Yolngu rapper and ARIA winner Baker Boy by street artist Matt Adnate. The 2025 Archibald Prize has received 904 entries, the Wynne Prize received 758 entries, and the Sulman Prize a record 732 entries. All up, 139 works have been selected as finalists across the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024: 57 finalists in the Archibald, 52 in the Wynne and 30 in the Sulman.
The Guardian
01-05-2025
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- 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
