Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024 at AGNSW

More than a century after it was established, the Archibald Prize is today Australia’s most celebrated art award. Now in its 103rd year, the prestigious prize is open to artists living in Australia and New Zealand, and captures some of the region’s most captivating figures.

Sydney artist Laura Jones won this year’s Archibald for her oil painting of author and conservationist Tim Winton. Inspired by Winton’s ABC documentary Ningaloo Nyinggulu about the fight to save Ningaloo Reef, it is the first portrait of Winton ever to be entered in the prize. Jones, meanwhile, is only the 12th woman to take out the Archibald.

The winning portrait is on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until September 8, along with the winners and finalists of two other prestigious prizes: the Wynne Prize for landscape painting of Australian scenery and figure sculpture, and the Sir John Sulman Prize for subject painting, genre painting and mural works by Australian artists.

Wynne Prize-winner Djakaŋu Yunupiŋu’s Nyalala gurmilili depicts the first light of sunrise in north-east Arnhem Land and the tale of the Djulpan (seven sisters). And Sulman Prize-winner Naomi Kantjuriny’s work Minyma mamu tjuta is of mamu, good and bad spirits of the Western Desert.

Vote for your favourite Archibald portrait in the ANZ People’s Choice Award before entries close on August 4. Also on display are the Young Archies, with works by the next generation of artists aged five to 18.

Find out more and book tickets online.

This article is produced by Broadsheet in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales.