The judges’ selections are, as always, bonkers – but there’s something beautifully daggy about the whole thing too ...

More than 1,000 portraits have been whittled down to 59 finalists for this year’s Archibald. Here is a selection ...

Kiwi-born, Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer has won Australia’s richest portrait prize on his sixth attempt with a painting of Iluwanti Ken.

The Melbourne-based artist painted Pitjantjatjara elder Iluwanti Ken, who is known for her large-scale drawings and was also a finalist in this year's Wynne Prize.

Sean Layh has won the $3,000 Packing Room Prize at this year's Archibald Prize for his portrait of Jacob Collins, titled The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke.

It’s no surprise that the Archibald Prize is once again a chaotic collection of disparate pictures varying spectacularly in ...