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Sydney Morning Herald
06-05-2025
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- Sydney Morning Herald
The powerful portraits that didn't make the Archibald Prize cut
Entering the Art Gallery of NSW's Archibald Prize for artist Rodney Pople is akin to surrendering yourself for public execution. For his self-portrait, Jesus, Pople has been spared the media spectacle, having missed out on the final cut of this year's $100,000 prize, due to be announced on Friday. But his painterly work has been selected for the Salon des Refusés, at Sydney's S.H Ervin Gallery, an exhibition of second chances which has run alongside the Archibald Prize since 1992. Pople's Jesus riffs on his 2008 Archibald Prize entry, showing him kneeling before the sandstone edifice of the Art Gallery of NSW surrendering to a row of gun-carrying soldiers in high heels. Pople had been on a long drive in the southern states of America last October when he turned the corner to see a huge yellow sign with Jesus on it. 'I nearly ran off the road it was so powerful.' Loading His work also takes inspiration from Francisco Goya's The Third of May 1808 painted in 1814. 'Too many artists are playing it too safe. I feel art should have a licence to be on the edge, and that's what the Jesus sign is saying.' Top of mind was Creative Australia's sacking of Khaled Sabsabi in February as Australia's Venice Biennale representative, a decision Pople, a winner of the Sulman Prize, describes as 'dreadful'. 'They should never have caved in to censorship,' he says.
The Age
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
The powerful portraits that didn't make the Archibald Prize cut
Entering the Art Gallery of NSW's Archibald Prize for artist Rodney Pople is akin to surrendering yourself for public execution. For his self-portrait, Jesus, Pople has been spared the media spectacle, having missed out on the final cut of this year's $100,000 prize, due to be announced on Friday. But his painterly work has been selected for the Salon des Refusés, at Sydney's S.H Ervin Gallery, an exhibition of second chances which has run alongside the Archibald Prize since 1992. Pople's Jesus riffs on his 2008 Archibald Prize entry, showing him kneeling before the sandstone edifice of the Art Gallery of NSW surrendering to a row of gun-carrying soldiers in high heels. Pople had been on a long drive in the southern states of America last October when he turned the corner to see a huge yellow sign with Jesus on it. 'I nearly ran off the road it was so powerful.' Loading His work also takes inspiration from Francisco Goya's The Third of May 1808 painted in 1814. 'Too many artists are playing it too safe. I feel art should have a licence to be on the edge, and that's what the Jesus sign is saying.' Top of mind was Creative Australia's sacking of Khaled Sabsabi in February as Australia's Venice Biennale representative, a decision Pople, a winner of the Sulman Prize, describes as 'dreadful'. 'They should never have caved in to censorship,' he says.
