Comedian ‘has not stopped beaming’ since learning Andrea Huelin’s portrayal of her in an elaborate headdress has claimed category decided by gallery staff
Huelin said the inspiration for the portrait came from Wilson’s Instagram posts during Covid-19 lockdowns in Melbourne, when she would share elaborate headpieces she had made from toys, ornaments and a hot glue gun.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Huelin said she felt privileged to be the first artist chosen by the new packing room pickers following Cuthbertson’s retirement last year after 41 years in the job. There is just one scientist among the sitters – the University of New South Wales quantum physics professor Michelle Simmons, painted by Charles Mouyat; as well as two politicians – the independent Sydney MP, Alex Greenwich, by Jason Jowett and the City of Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon by Luke Cornish; and three sitters who could be regarded as people of “letters”: the writer Drusilla Modjeska by Katherine Hattam, the founding Saturday Paper editor, Erik Jensen, by Angela Brennan and Guardian...
One artist achieved the distinction of being the sitter in a painting up for the Archibald as well as being a finalist in the $40,000 Sulman prize for subject painting, genre painting or a mural project, whose finalists were also announced on Thursday, along with the $50,000 Wynne prize for landscape painting or figurative sculpture.
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