2020 Archibald Prize People's Choice award winner announced
2020 Archibald Prize People's Choice award winner announced Archibald Prize 2020 ANZ Peoples Choice award winner Angus McDonald Behrouz Boochani © the artist. Photo: AGNSW, Mim Stirling. SYDNEY .- Six-time Archibald Prize finalist Angus McDonald has been awarded the 2020 ANZ Peoples Choice award for his portrait of Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian writer, poet, filmmaker and journalist. The artist, who is based in Lennox Head, NSW, first made contact with Boochani in 2018, while he was creating his award-winning short film Manus (2019) about Manus Island, where Boochani was held by th...
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