Archibald Prize winning artist’s creative haven for sale

Archibald Prize winning artist Guy Maestri is selling his $2.7m home, that’s full of some of Australia’s greatest art and holds some of the secrets of his success.

Archibald Prize winning artist Guy Maestri is selling his Sydney home. (Photo by Phil Rogers)

Archibald Prize winning artist Guy Maestri has listed his renovated Marrickville home. Almost every wall in the modernised 1920s home is lined with art work, though not all of it is his own work.

BresicWhitney agent Rhonda Yim has a guide of $2.7 million for its February 15 auction.

The Mudgee-born Maestri bought the Neville Street home for $1.96 million eight years ago, before reconfiguring and extending the interior. There are four bedrooms and two bathrooms. There are now two separate living rooms, one opening to an alfresco patio with built-in barbecue that meets a yard with edible gardens.

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The home has a $2,7m guide.

Maestri has owned the home for eight years.

Numerous artworks appear throughout the home.

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The rear building with the rear lane access on the 410 sqm block, has been used as Maestri’s art studio.

Maestri bought the home when he was moving from his Chelsea Court, Surry Hills apartment which sold for $1.33 million in 2017. Several of the art pieces in the Surry Hills sales marketing campaign, also through BresicWhitney, reappear in the Marrickville listing images.

His walls include works by Sally Gabori, Ben Quilty and Daniel Boyd. 

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The freestanding home dates back to 1920.

But has been modernised for contemporary living.

The detached studio/workshop that doubles as a lock-up garage.

One of the four bedrooms.

Maestri won the 2009 Archibald Prize for a portrait of musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu which he donated to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. He was also an Archibald Prize finalist in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

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