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Created in 1994 as a spoof of that more serious competition, the Bald Archy Prize provides artists of all styles and standards with a genuine opportunity, ranging from the hilarious to the bizarrely vulgar, to create portrait paintings of humour, dark satire, light comedy or caricature.
Winning subjects over the years have included Kerry Packer, Amanda Vanstone, Edmund Capon, Shane Warne, Dame Edna Everidge, John Howard and Pauline Hanson, Robbie and Gai Waterhouse, Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Kennet, Cardinal George Pell and Tony Abbott, and Ian Thorpe.
Celebrating its 15th year in 2008, the $5000 Prize is now sponsored by the City of Wagga Wagga, which hosts the Bald Archy Prize preview each year from Australia Day. The exhibition begins in Wagga Wagga and moves to Sydney, where the winner is announced, before going on tour throughout Eastern Australia.
Artists from all over Australia are now invited to submit paintings in competition for the $5000 Bald Archy Prize, to be awarded in March 2008.
The prize will be awarded to the best comic or satiric portrait, preferably of an Australian distinguished in art, science, politics, sport or the media, painted by an artist during the 12 months prior to 15 January, 2008.
Download the application form from the link below, or you can contact the Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga on 6926 9655.
www.wagga.nsw.gov.au/www/html/501-applications.asp
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