Off to the Art Gallery in Bondi Pavilion.

Current exhibition are the participants for the Waverley Art Prize.

Here are some of the artists which I liked. Joel Arthur with Excavator. Beautifully crafted. Give it a moment or two.

But my favourite was D.R Snook with Everything sucks so I might as well.

Waverley Art Prize 2023

Then an opportunity to see the Archibald Exhibition for 2023. This is the foremost portrait exhibition in Australia and I combined a late night visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales with dinner at Matt Moran’s restaurant in the Gallery with Nick and Charles.

The Archibald was as wonderful as it was diverse but I will give you only my personal favourite and direct you to this link for the rest.

Jill Ansell, finalist with Looking East.

‘I wanted my portrait to explore being remote and unseen; to appear like an old postcard that has taken multiple wrong turns over a century before finally arriving.’

Ansell positioned herself facing east into the morning sun, squinting to see Sydney, nearly 4000 kilometres away on the other side of the map, then split the work into two panels inside an old tobacco tin.

‘It includes small items such as broken watch parts, an old stamp and sand. For the address label, I calculated how long it would take me to walk to the Art Gallery of New South Wales if I was fitter and took Sundays off to treat blisters, she says.’Given that the work explores the difficulty of making it into the Archibald, the irony of its acceptance is not lost on me.’

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/

We loved the young Archies – take a look here too.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/art/prizes/young-archie/

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