Gallery of New South Wales on Friday, the winning work was chosen unanimously by the judges from 1,005 entries and 57 finalists. Jones’ win marks the 14th time the prize has been awarded to a woman since the Archibald started in 1921.Accepting Australia’s oldest and most celebrated portraiture prize, the artist said she grew up studying Winton’s novel Cloudstreet and deeply admired his activism around protecting Ningaloo in Western Australia.
The Archibald prize is announced each year alongside the $50,000 Wynne prize for landscape painting and figurative sculpture, and the $40,000 Sulman prize for genre, subject and mural painting.
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