Archibald Prize 2024

THE ARCHIBALD PRIZE 2024 IS AN ART GALLERY OF NSW TOURING EXHIBITION 24 APRIL 2025 - 15 JUNE 2025 

The Archibald Prize 2024 Regional Tour an Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition is presented by the Araluen Arts Centre in Mparntwe/ Alice Springs from 24 April 2024 to 15 June 2025. This is the first time in its history the Archibald Prize has travelled to the Northern Territory offering audiences outside of NSW the opportunity to see all 2024 finalists.
First awarded in 1921, the Archibald Prize was established following a bequest from former Art Gallery trustee and founder of The Bulletin magazine JF Archibald (1856–1919), whose aim was to foster portraiture, support artists and perpetuate the memory of great Australians.
The open competition has been awarded annually (with two exceptions: 1964 and 1980) to the best portrait, ‘preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in arts, letters, science or politics, painted by any artist resident in Australasia’. Entries to the Archibald Prize must be painted in the past year from at least one live sitting.
The Archibald Prize 2024 recorded 1,005 entries with the highest known number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Almost half of the finalists were exhibited for the first time with two local artists Adrian Jangala Robertson and Thea Anamara Perkins.
The Archibald Prize 2024 winning artwork is a portrait of author and conservationist Tim Winton by Laura Jones from NSW. She commented ‘When I flew to Perth for a sitting, the Great Barrier Reef was suffering its fifth mass bleaching event in eight years. Tim was warm and witty. We spoke about the historical relationship between printmaking and political activism. I approached his portrait as if it was a monotype, using thin brushstrokes and letting the paint bleed across the canvas like ink into paper. Dreamy yet direct.’
The Araluen Arts Centre will also be presenting the Young Archie Mparntwe competition alongside the Archibald Prize with four age categories awarded.
 Find out more about each of this year's Archibald Prize finalists here: artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2024

Web Banner Image Credit: The Archibald Prize 2024 finalist,
Angus McDonald Professor Marcia Langton AO (detail) © the artist