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In 2008, when I first visited Canberra’s newly opened National Portrait Gallery, my first response was an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. I knew many of those paintings. They had once hung on the walls of the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the annual Archibald Prize exhibition, or been seen in the Salon des Refusés home to the best of the rejects.
Over 49 years I have seen the Archibald from both the inside, as a curator, and the outside as a critic. My first Archibald was in 1972, the year Clifton Pugh won with his portrait of Gough Whitlam. Along with other art history students, I had never been especially interested in this festival of popular culture, but as the recently appointed most junior of all curators my job was to administer the prize.
Archibald winner Nora Heysen was crushed by men who laughed at her art
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Well, I painted myself because I knew her; I am only shy with people. Painting self-portraits is the one time when you can be
with yourself absolutely and just paint; you donât even have to get a likeness With self-portraits you can be alone with yourself
and not have to worry about another person.
Nora Heysen
Modernity is an arrogant master; for all of its flashy brilliance, itâs censorious; in the blink of an eye it excludes those who havenât subscribed to its assumption of what constitutes progress.