Bald Archy Prize 2008
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.
Wagga Wagga
Museum of the Riverina
Cnr Baylis and Morrow Streets
Wagga Wagga NSW
26 January – 2 March 2008