Archibald Prize 2009
The Archibald Prize 2009 Finalists have been announced, you can see which ones made the cut at SMH, or you can check out all the finalists at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from the 7th March – 24th May 2009.
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Mar 2 09, 01:19



I wonder if the inclusion of an artistique portrait of an aboriginal child is as much of a national/historical cliché for Australia as one of, say, a Mountie in red serge or an inukshuk would be here.
Also note: Even Australian aboriginals have more than one ethnic type, so why is the iconography dominated by this ethnic type? I may be sensitive to this because it is no big deal in Canada to find blond-haired métis, for example, so this sort of thing looks like stereotyping two ways.
Joe Clark, March 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm