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Reg Mombassa

May

A detail of Packing Room Prize winner Abdul Abdullah’s portrait of friend and fellow artists Jason Phu.

Art Gallery of NSW gives its ‘kiss of death’ award

The Packing Room Prize has been awarded ahead of next week’s Archibald, and there is speculation they could have the same winner for the first time.

  • Michael Bailey

April 2024

Cressida Campbell’s Burley Griffin House, Avalon, 1999, is a unique colour woodblock print on paper. It is estimated to fetch between $140,000 and $180,000 in Smith & Singer’s 17 April Important Australian Art auction in Sydney.

Streeton, Campbell works promise hefty returns in $12m art sale

An Arthur Streeton painting bought for £7 has hopes of $1.5 million at the year’s first big sale.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

July 2023

Co-founders of the Incognito Art show in Paddington, Dave Liston and artist Laura Jones. The upcoming show hides the works of famous artists among those of amateurs, for a $100 flat price, with profits going to charity.

How to buy an Archibald winner for just $100

Paintings by a dozen Archibald Prize finalists, including 2023 winner Julia Gutman, join works by Reg Mombassa and Ken Done at Incognito in Sydney.

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  • Michael Bailey

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