A is for Archibald: the ABCs of the Archibald (a self-portrait)
The smallest (and most disproportionate) Archibald entry this year (and maybe ever!)
As you know, little over a week ago I entered the tallest possible paper to the Archibald Prize at 3.3 metres (here is the full explanation).
What you didn’t know however is that also entered the Archibald with probably the smallest work (just 14 cm tall and 9cm wide). There is of course also a twist. That same work also probably had the most disproportionate dimensions of any entry this year because it was a foldout Japanese Album notebook stretching to 279cm wide.
I entered it under an artistic alias I sometimes go by (because only one entry per artist is permitted in the Archibald Prize and, well, I’m a radical rebel).
As you might know I’ve been on an epic odyssey over the past almost three months to win the Archibald prize partly through calculation and partly creativity.
So what if I could, I thought, tell both my story, the story of the Archibald Prize and the story of all entrants in a single work? But it would need to be intimate, personal and relatable to both the audience and the judges.
This artwork was perhaps even more rebellious than my gigantic paper painting - it was a self-referencing book titled: A is for Archibald: The ABCs of Australia’s most famous art prize
Some of my favourite letters - M is for Me (self-portrait), J is for Judges, O is for Oil Paint, G is for Gigantic, H is for Hope, N is for Noticeability and S for Self-Portraits.
The complete series 'How to win the Archibald Prize'
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