The artist received the award for his painting Stand Strong for Who You Are, which features a depiction of the retired Australian footballer Adam Goodes.
The leading source of art coverage since 1902. “When I saw the 2019 documentary (The Final Quarter) about Adam’s final season of AFL football my guts were churning as I relived Adam’s experiences with relentless racism on and off the field,” Namatjira said in a statement.
According to a report by the Guardian, Namatjira’s was selected as the winner by the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1,068 entries for the prize. Vincent Namatjira has become the first Indigenous artist to win Australia’s Archibald Prize for portraiture, which comes with $100,000.
Estimate: AUD30,000 - AUD40,000 Description: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902 – 1959) THE GHOST GUM OF PALM VALLEY, c.1943 watercolour and pencil on card SIGNED: signed lower right: ALBERT NAMATJIRA DIMENSIONS: 38.5 x 27.0 cm PROVENANCE: Private collection Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 12 April 1989, lot 205 Private collection, Melbourne RELATED WORK: The … Work by finalists for the prize will be shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales through January 10, and the exhibition will tour New South Wales and Victoria next year. Namatjira, the great-grandson of renowned Arrernte watercolour artist Albert Namatjira, was one of 23 finalists selected from among more than 350 entries in this year’s prize, and the only one who was also a finalist in the previous prize held in 2017. The Best Watercolor Sheets for Painterly Experimentations, Vincent Namatjira Becomes First Indigenous Winner of Major Australian Art Prize, New Microsoft App Offers Immersive Look at Sol LeWitt’s Multifarious Practice, Plans for Picasso Museum in Aix-en-Provence Have Been Halted, On Amazon Prime Day, We'll Help You Find the Best Deals on Art Supplies. Subscribe to ARTnews today!
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Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. Photo: Grant Hancock . Vincent Namatjira, from Indulkana in South Australia’s far north APY Lands, has become the first Indigenous artist to win the Archibald Prize in … “As I watched, memories of my own experiences were stirred up and I knew I wanted to reach out and reconnect with Adam.
I hope my grandfather would be quite proud. An installation view of the Ramsay Art Prize exhibition featuring Vincent Namatjira's Close Contact. Send us a tip using our anonymous form.
Vincent Namatjira paints bold portraits of Australias seven most recent prime ministers, The Age, Kylie Northover, Aug 19th 2016 TarraWarra Biennial: Endless Circulation, Arts Review, 25 Aug 2016 Vincent Namatjira: past and future in one frame, Emily Ritchie, The Australian, 19 Aug 2016 Namatjira’s figurative paintings often take on political and social issues, and they have been exhibited at the Sydney Contemporary, Artspace Sydney, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, and other venues. Namatjira met Goodes in 2018 and was inspired to paint the athlete after viewing the 2019 documentary The Final Quarter, which traces Goodes’s career and anti-racism activism.
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