Julia Gutman has won the 2023 Archibald prize for her portrait of the Australian singer Jessica Cerro, better known as Montaigne.Gallery of New South Wales on Friday, the winning painting was picked unanimously by the judges. It marks the 13th time the prize has been awarded to a woman since the Archibald started in 1921; and the first time a female musician has been the subject of a winning portrait.
Gutman said she wanted to convey a sense of interior and exterior spaces. “Jess is very online. Montaigne has this huge kind of online persona. She’s very famous on Twitch, her fans are largely teenagers. “Like Edith, Montaigne’s figure is distorted: at once angular and soft, representational and imagined. She sits in a vaguely suggested landscape, fragmented by a translucent screen, online and offline at once,” she said.
On Thursday Cerro had posted a joke about the portrait winning the Archibald; on Friday she shared her dazed reaction. “I was joking about us winning the Archibald prize yesterday because I didn’t think we actually would - but we did win,”The $100,000 prize is awarded to the best portrait of a person “distinguished in art, letters, science or politics” painted by an Australian resident and has been running since 1921.
The $40,000 Sulman prize for best subject painting, genre painting or mural project –in oil, acrylic, watercolour or mixed media – was won by the Luritja artist Doris Bush Nungarrayi for her work Mamunya ngalyananyi .
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