The Gippsland Art Gallery is situated at the Port of Sale, overlooking stunning waterways and parkland. Every year the Gallery hosts around twenty exhibitions of local, national and international significance, in addition to ongoing and evolving displays of the permanent collection.
The Gallery was the first public art venue to open east of Melbourne. It continued to operate as a community gallery until , when it came under the management of the newly formed Wellington Shire Council. The redevelopment has dramatically enhanced the visitor experience, with increased exhibition spaces and improved access to the Gallery collection.
The new Gippsland Art Gallery opened to the public on 6 January What's On. Contact Us. Archibald Prize. Matters again came perilously close to a legal battle again in when the trustees decided to award the prize to John Bloomfield's portrait of the film maker, Tim Burstall. When pressed, the artist admitted he had made the painting from a photograph and the trustees quickly removed the prize from Bloomfield. This led to the inevitable and continuing debate about the rules, about the nature of a portrait 'from life', about the relevance of the Archibald etc.
The matter of interpretation cropped again in when the prize was awarded to Craig Ruddy's imposing portrait of the renowned Aboriginal dancer and actor David Gulpilil, painted, or drawn, in so-called 'mixed media'.
One artist took exception, firmly claimed it was created in charcoal and graphite, was not a painting and therefore ineligible. He too went to court but he had public opinion against him for it was a popular choice and, in any event, by dint of some close observation and analysis we did in fact find just a little paint on the surface! I must admit here that I too was sued in the cause of the Archibald prize. In , a fairly large picture of the colourful stockbroker Rene Rivkin, famed for his Havana cigars and gold worry beads, was submitted.
I happened to be looking at this rather overbearing painting with the sitter one day before the judging process and when asked what I thought of it replied, with abject honesty, that it bore more resemblance to a pile of chewing gum than it did to his good self.
Unfortunately, that comment was overheard and appeared in the press the next day, whereupon the artist, Azerbaijan born Vladas Meskenas took, understandably I suppose, umbrage and decided to sue me. Apparently, the sitter had agreed to buy the painting but following my observations, decided against the purchase. Nobody has yet managed to explain the basis for this fine and I shall reserve my right to say pretty much what I think about a work of art but of course be very careful about the sitter!
He worked initially as a stockman. He understood what it was like to get into an interesting pose. On his return in he worked for a short time as an illustrator for a newspaper, before being appointed in to the staff of the East Sydney Technical College, later the National Art School in Sydney. He remained there until as a major force in the training of several generations of Sydney artists. David Strachan was an accomplished artist in his own right and friend of Dundas.
Ivor Hele was a renowned portrait painter, who won the Archibald Prize five times in seven years. Appointed official war artist during World War II while serving in the Middle East — his paintings graphically captured the combat in which he participated as artist-soldier.
He established his reputation during the s and 50s, during which time he was awarded the Archibald Prize eight times. Dargie had first encountered Namatjira in the early s when he painted with him in Central Australia several times.
But with this work I wanted to break away from typical portraiture I wanted to widen my frame and situate David in a setting close to his heart. Head Packer Brett Cuthbertson, who holds 52 percent of the vote, has worked at the gallery for some 40 years. The Archibald is awarded to the best portrait painting and the Wynne to the best landscape painting of Australian scenery, or figure sculpture, while the Sulman is given to the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project in oil, acrylic, watercolour or mixed media.
The prize was established following a bequest by Richard Wynne, who died in , and first awarded in , in honour of the official opening of the Gallery at its present site. The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. The Art Gallery of New South Wales began without a collection and without a building on 24 April when a group of 30 art-loving citizens established a society to support artists and promote knowledge and enjoyment of art in the wider community.
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