More than 2,000 works will go through the gallery’s packing room this week as artists deliver their entries for Australia’s most prestigious portrait, landscape and genre prizes
After 40 years working together in the children’s literature space, author Libby Hathorn agreed to illustrator Liz Bowring’s request to paint her – “as long as you submit it to the Archibald”., where the canvas is among the more than 2,000 entries from across the country that will be processed through the gallery’s packing room this week.
Alexis Wildman, one of the gallery’s packing room staff, says the week the processing takes place is “one of those periods where every single person from every nook and cranny comes out of the woodwork – all these artists that are new to the Archibald as well as seasoned veterans.” “They’ve gone through this big adventure to get here and deliver their work. And we get to be on the receiving end and see their excitement and nervousness, all the jitters, all the hard work leading up to this moment,” Wildman says.
“I think the advantage we have over say the trustees is that we get to hear the stories and be on the floor with the crew,” Wildman says.Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian
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