30 June to 29 July 2007

It’s irreverent, witty, crazy and ‘just for fun’. It’s the only art competition in the world judged by a sulphur-crested cockatoo, named Maude! And it is now regarded as the alternative competition to The Archibald Prize. Created in 1994 as a spoof of that more serious competition, the Bald Archy provides artists of all styles and standards with a genuine opportunity, ranging from the hilarious to the bizarrely vulgar, to create portrait paintings of humour, dark satire, light comedy or caricature.

Winning subjects over the years have included Kerry Packer, Amanda Vandstone, Edmund Capon, Shane Warne, Dame Edna Everage, John Howard and Pauline Hanson, Robbie Waterhouse and Gai Waterhouse, Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Kennett, Cardinal Pell and Tony Abbott, and Ian Thorpe.

Co-ordinating Curator: Peter Batey
Venue: Corridors of Power

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