Sean Layh has won the $3,000 Packing Room Prize at this year's Archibald Prize for his portrait of Jacob Collins, titled The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke.
Painting by self-taught artist was chosen by Art Gallery of NSW staff who hang finalists for exhibition, ahead of main prize announcement on 8 May ...
No winner of this award has ever gone on to take the main event, but that didn’t seem to bother artist Sean Layh who accepted the honour today.
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Hamlet 'double portrait' wins Archibald packers' prize
Sean Layh has pocketed a time-honoured art award, with the subject of his innovative prize-winning portrait both real and fictional.
Sean Layh’s portrait of actor Jacob Collins is one of 59 finalists in the running for this year’s $100,000 Archibald Prize.
It’s no surprise that the Archibald Prize is once again a chaotic collection of disparate pictures varying spectacularly in ...
More than 50 years ago, when I was a junior curatorial assistant at the Art Gallery of NSW, I had the daunting experience of hanging the annual Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. At the time the ...
More than 1,000 portraits have been whittled down to 59 finalists for this year’s Archibald. Here is a selection ...
Australia’s most popular arts event is back in action for 2026, with the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes bringing a fresh ...
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