Today I met up with some of my online study buddies at the Art Gallery of NSW, to see the Archibald Prize exhibition. Look at these lovely faces!
The Archibald is a prestigious prize for portrait painting. This year's winning portrait is "Penelope Seidler", by Fiona Lowry (acrylic on canvas):
Displayed along with the Archibald finalists are those for the Wynne and Sulman prizes, which are landscape and genre paintings. I loved the weird and wonderful works in the Sulman prize, but my favourite from the day was a landscape painting, "Hillside Landscape" by Steve Burley. I love the colours and freedom in this painting.