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Curator’s Intro

Archie 100

Streamed live at 12:30pm (AEDT), Tuesday 24th October 2023
Natalie Wilson
Video: 38 minutes

Join Natalie Wilson, curator of Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize and Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW, for a peek into some of the portraits and themes in the exhibition.

Natalie Wilson holds an MA (Art History & Theory) from the University of Sydney. She has curated numerous collection-based exhibitions at the AGNSW and authored essays, papers, and books on Australian and Pacific art.

Wilson curated Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize, which opened at the AGNSW in June 2021 and has been touring national, state, and regional galleries since. In 2021 she featured in the three-part series Finding the Archibald, produced by Mint Pictures and screened nationally on ABC TV.

Other exhibitions include: Justin O’Brien: The Sacred Music of Colour (co-curator, 2010), Peter Rushforth: All Fired Up (SH Ervin Gallery 2013), Plumes and Pearlshells: Art of the New Guinea Highlands (2014), Painter in Paradise: William Dobell in New Guinea (SH Ervin Gallery and touring, 2015–16), Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes (2016), Melanesian Art: Redux (2018), and A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas (co-curator, 2021) held at the National Library of Australia.

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