Ep 115: The Archibald Winners

Scroll down for transcript If you’ve been listening to this podcast over the years, you would probably know I’m a self-confessed Archibald tragic. I'm fascinated by the depiction of the human face and figure in paint and that is exactly what the prize celebrates each year at the Art Gallery of NSW. The Archibald Prize is Australia's most famous portrait prize and is now in its 100th year. This episode is a compilation of clips from my conversations with Archibald winners where they talk about how they felt about winning, what it did for their career or about the painting itself. I've also included a clip from my conversation with biographer Scott Bevan where we talked about what was arguably the most controversial Archibald win - the 1943 winning portrait by William Dobell of fellow artist Joshua Smith. To hear the podcast episode click 'play' beneath the above photo. Scroll down for the transcript. See below for a list of podcast guests, the year they won the prize and their portraits. Click on the name to go to the full interview. * Guy Warren  1985 * Davida Allen  1986 * William Robinson  1987 and 1995 * Francis Giacco  1994 * Wendy Sharpe  1996 * Lewis Miller   1998 * Euan Macleod 1999 * Nicholas Harding  2001 * Del Kathryn Barton 2008 and 2013 * Guido Maestri 2009 * Ben Quilty 2011 * Tim Storrier  2012 * Louise Hearman 2016 * Tony Costa 2019 * Vincent Namatjira 2020 * Peter Wegner 2021 * Scott Bevan *