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CERAMIC PORTRAITURE
WITH AMANDA MCGAHAN
WEDNESDAYS: 10, 17, 24, 31
MARCH 5:30 – 7:30PM
$135 ($155 NON-MEMBERS)

This four-week course guides participants through the
structure and visual proportions of the face, exploring
techniques to sculpt the human head in clay. Working from
photographs, participants will work towards likeness and
expression of character of their subject. Open to people
aged 16 and over, across all skill levels.

MORE: cairnsartgallery.com.au
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ARCHIE 100
Cairns Art Gallery will be one of nine venues to host
the historical Archie 100, scheduled from 18 March to
12 June, 2022.
Signifying a century of the Archibald Prize, the Art
Gallery of NSW is putting together a collection of one
hundred portraits – and locating those that have gone
missing over the Prize’s history.
More than 6000 portraits have been included in the
Archibald to date, many of which are now in
private collections.
If you happen to have any clues on a hidden Archibald
work, let the Art Gallery of NSW know at
[email protected]

The landmark exhibition will be carefully selected to
“uncover changes in society … enabling people to
experience how artistic styles and approaches to
portraiture have changed over a century.”

with local artist
Q&A Andrew Bonneau

As a past finalist, can you describe the Aside from the artwork, what do you Which work are you most looking
significance of the Archibald Prize? think the exhibition will bring to the forward to seeing in this year's
When I was an art student living in Gallery and our city more broadly? exhibition?
Sydney, I used to visit the Archibald It’s good to see the ambition of the I think both Peter Wegner and Tsering
every year and imagine one of my Cairns Art Gallery in securing major Hannaford have done very good
paintings hanging in the gallery, travelling exhibitions. It’s important paintings. It will be nice to see them
so it was nice for that to happen for anyone who appreciates art to see in the flesh.
eventually. The exposure was very as much work in the flesh as possible.
good, a huge amount of people got I think at this time especially,
to see my work; it’s certainly one when it’s been made difficult to
of the most visited exhibitions in travel interstate, Cairns locals will
Australia and as a result of being a appreciate the exhibition coming to
finalist I also received several major them.
commissions.

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