The Archibald Prize Finalists

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Sydney artist Del Kathryn Barton has won the 2008 Archibald Prize for her painting You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella. The Archibald prize is now in its 87th year. Kathryn receives a prize of $50,000.

Del Kathryn Barton's self-portrait depicts her with her son and daughter, Kell and Arella.

"This painting celebrates the love I have for my two children and how my relationship with them has radically informed and indeed transformed my understanding of who I am," she says.

"The title of the work - you are what is most beautiful about me - alludes to that utterly profound ?'in-loveness' that all mothers have for their children. Both my children have taken my world by storm and very little compares to the devotion I feel for them both. The intensity of this emotion is not something that I could have prepared myself for. The alchemy of life offered forth from my inhabitable woman's body is perhaps the greatest gift of my life."




Known for its vibrant, figurative imagery, Barton's work combines traditional painting techniques with contemporary design and illustrative styles. Although she does a lot of figurative work, much of it self-referential, she doesn't do a great deal of portraiture though she was represented in last year's Archibald Prize with a painting of art dealer Vasili Kaliman.

Born in Sydney in 1972, Barton has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, where she taught for three years until 2003. She has had regular solo exhibitions since 2000 and has participated in national and international group shows including the Helen Lempiere Travelling Art Scholarship, the Blake Prize for Religious Art and the Sulman Prize. She was a finalist in the 2007 Dobell Prize for Drawing.



The 2008 Sulman prize for Subject/genre or mural went to -
Rodney pople: Stage fright




Wynne prize for landscape and figure sculpture -
Joanne Currie nalingu - The river is calm



2008 Trustees' Watercolour Prize winner
John Wolseley
Camel Gate, Border Track, SA/Vic



The archbald prize website history and other info at the link below.
Archibald Prize website

My NY resolution has been to get out more, especially to places such as the art gallery - Penny the hamster and and I went to the Nolan retrospective, which is on in Melbourne, now!

Archibalds next weekend, mebbe?

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I quite like Calm waters.

Lovely!!!


Thanks DP.

Like that zebra