Well, as my ‘How to win the Archibald Prize’ journey ends for 2015 I wanted to answer the #6 most common questions from readers. Here they are...
If you had only one minute to explain your ‘How to win the Archibald Prize' journey, how would you do it?
I would use this picture and scribbling below!
How did you fare? If you think the Archibald Prize is an art prize, everyone lost except Nigel Milsom. If it’s not (which it isn’t) then I won. My explanation is here.
What do you look like? Would Batman show what he really looks like?
What’s next? At the opening of the Archibald I realised it was mostly poor artists painting in the hopes of rich, immaculately beautiful (and sartorially eccentric) people noticing their works in a giant building with white walls. It’s a wonderful and curious world, but next I’ll do the very opposite. If you’d like to follow that next radical journey just subscribe to my newsletter (I’d love to share with you!).
More immediately, I was issued a challenge for the Moran Prize….I met Artist Samuel Condon at the Archibald opening recently (killer portrait of John Jarratt) and last week he issued me with a challenge to enter the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with my rebellious style-flavour.
I counter-challenged Samuel with a radical suggestion to collaborate by spending no more than 60 minutes each.
With my 60 minutes I created a happily yellow-suited Samuel staring dramatically below (you can see all the details here).
I would love him to now replicate my piece in his masterful oil on canvas way but limiting himself to a rapid 60 minutes (you'd be amazed what you can do in 60 minutes, really - Adele wrote 'Skyfall' in under an hour, likewise Taylor Swift with 'We are never getting back together' in 2012) .
Busy artist and student he is (Masters of Curatorship etc.) he was hesitant. Let's encourage him to collaborate with me to give the art world something relatably off-kilter...
Can I buy your A to Z of the Archibald? Boy, I’d love that immeasurably (subscribe to my newsletter and I’ll let you know when it is ready!)
What did you do before this whole Archibald thing? I sit in plain sight in Sydney (possibly New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Adelaide, Dunedoon) and draw unnoticed people and imagine their stories. Here is some of my stuff although I’ve another fifty I’m finishing as we speak.
Thanks for sharing my life for the past few months, here’s to the next chapter!
Kindly, Oscar