![]() ![]() But he is not a portrait painter, any more than he is a landscape painter. In 2007, he won the Archibald Prize, the leading prize for portraiture in Australia and, in some ways, the world, since it is a prize of such long-established prestige, centre stage in the Australian art world in a way that the BP Portrait Award never has been. I first got to know him in the late 1990s, when a work of his, Wanganui Heads, was included in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Painting the Century, held to celebrate the millennium in 2000. ![]() John Beard is an artist who has led an adventurous life, leaving Britain in the early 1980s to teach in western Australia, then settling in Sydney, while at the same time showing his work all over the world - in New York and Delhi, Madrid, Melbourne, New Zealand, London, Lisbon and St. Long Read: John Beard By Charles Saumarez Smith ![]()
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