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The Bald Archy Prize 2010
5th February to 8th March
Open daily 10am-4pm
Admission $3
http://www.baldarchy.com.au
The only art competition in the world to
be judged by a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Maude.
Following last year's big success,
Australia's most popular comic portrait competition is delighted to
once again preview a scathingly brilliant new exhibition featuring
many prominent Australians - just for fun!
Irreverent, outrageous satire. Not
to be missed.
The Bald Archy prize and its controversial judge
Maude, the sulphur-crested cockatoo, have been tapping into the
larrikin side of the Australian sense of humour for the last 17 years.
Created as a spoof of that more serious competition, the Bald Archy
Prize provides artists of all styles and standards with a genuine
opportunity to create portrait paintings of humour, dark satire, light
comedy or caricature ranging from the hilarious to the bizarrely
vulgar.
Winning subjects over the years have included Kerry
Packer, Amanda Vanstone, Edmund Capon, Shane Warne, Dame Edna Everidge,
John Howard and Pauline Hanson, Robbie and Gai Waterhouse, Rupert
Murdoch, Jeff Kennett, Cardinal George Pell and Tony Abbott, and
Princess Mary and Prince Frederick of Norway, as well as the 2009
winner, Bart Cummings.
For the second year running the exhibition previews
in Canberra as part of the Multicultural Festival. It then moves to
Sydney, where the winner will be announced, before going on tour
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