Painting by self-taught artist was chosen by Art Gallery of NSW staff who hang finalists for exhibition, ahead of main prize announcement on 8 May ...

No winner of this award has ever gone on to take the main event, but that didn’t seem to bother artist Sean Layh who accepted ...

The art prize that stops the nation has made a welcome return after the chaos of last year.

Melbourne artist W.B. McInnes won the first Archibald Prize for a sober portrait of an architect who sat stiffly beside a ...