Storrier takes Archibald

TIM Storrier's self-portrait, The Historic Wayfarer (After Bosch), is the winner of this year’s Archibald Prize.

TIM Storrier's self-portrait, The Historic Wayfarer (After Bosch), is the winner of this yearÂ’s Archibald Prize.

It beat 40 other finalists, including last year’s winner Ben Quilty, Charles Blackman and Garry Shead, to claim the $75,000 prize today at the Art Gallery of NSW.

The head of the AGNSW board of trustees, Steven lowy, announced Storrier’s win.

Artist Imants Tillers won the $35,000 Wynne prize for landscape painting for Waterfall (After Williams). The Sulman Prize was won by Nigel Milsom for his Judo House Part 4 (Golden Mud).

More than 830 entries from some of Australia’s best known painters were received for the 2012 Archibald Prize. This year the AGNSW, whose new director Michael Brand will take the reins in June, has increased the prize money by $25,000 from the $50,000 prize of previous years.

The Archibald is one of the oldest prizes in Australian art. First awarded in 1921, it has been won by some of Australia’s most revered artists including George Lambert (1927), William Dobell (1943, 48 and 59) and Brett Whiteley (1976 and 78).

The 2012 Archibald collection will be on display at AGNSW until June 3 before touring regional NSW.