Record year predicted for Archibald Prize entries – Sydney Morning Herald

“They’ve had more time. Like, artists have been doing it tough and they want to get their artwork out, so I completely understand that. The more the better,” he says.
Even so, Cuthbertson doesn’t subscribe to the idea that late arrivals have a better chance of appearing fresh to a judge’s weary eye. “There is no basis to that,” he says. “No matter when it comes in, the trustees see every single work.”
Nor does he hold to the superstition that artists should keep their subjects a secret lest th…

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