As the entries arrived at the Art Gallery of NSW ahead of Friday’s deadline, you could tell a lot about recent events in Australia by the faces painted.
Artist Robyn Ross braved wet weather to carry her bubble-wrapped, two-metre squared painting from her suburban Sydney home to the Art Gallery of NSW to submit it for this year’s Archibald Prize.
Adams, an antique jewellery dealer, designer and model who started the hashtag #mywrinklesaremystripes, was so overcome when she saw her portrait for the first time in the Art Gallery loading dock she burst into tears. “I was so depressed I almost didn’t want to be here any more,” Lakshmi said. “I came up with this idea to create a podcast to talk to other people who had been through dark times.”Using offcuts of fabric from their mother/daughter-run fashion business, her mother created a giant colourful assemblage.
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