Six time Archibald Prize Finalist Angus McDonald with Michael Brand, Director of the Art Gallery of NSW after Angus McDonald wins the 2020 Archibald Prize ANZ Peopleâs Choice award for his portrait of Behrouz Boochani a Kurdish â Iranian writer, poet, filmmaker and journalist at the NSW Art Gallery in Sydney Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard It says a lot about our region and the acknowledged talent that lives and works where we live, Ms Muddiman said. She said the exhibition they took down to make space for the Archibald was a collection of work from well known Australian artists who happen to live here and those who have painted while on the Tweed.
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A great irony of Behrouz Boochani’s story is the fact his image has become so recognised in a country he has never been allowed to enter.
A portrait by Lennox Head artist and filmmaker Angus McDonald depicting Mr Boochani certainly resonated enough with the public to be awarded the People’s Choice in the 2020 Archibald Prize.
Mr Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer, reached Australia by boat in 2013 and was detained on Manus Island until he was able to leave for New Zealand in 2019.
There, he was ultimately granted asylum.
Mr McDonald’s work,
Behrouz Boochani, has been his sixth work to be an Archibald finalist.
by The Editors
Exterior view of the National Gallery, London. Image via Facebook.
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Governmentâs arrogance in refusing to apologise
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THE HIGH-RISE LOCKDOWN
Governmentâs arrogance in refusing to apologise
Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass has found what any right-minded person should have thought at the time â the lockdown of the high-rise towers, which occurred with only 15 minutesâ notice to tenants, breached their human rights (The Age, 18/12). She did not find there should not have been a lockdown, only that the manner in which it was implemented was against the medical advice and breached human rights. When it occurred, I was appalled, both as a lawyer and an ordinary citizen.