Coping with instant fame: Cairns and Hearman speak up

How does being named the Archibald Prize Winner change an artists life? We speak with this week’s winner Mitch Cairns and last year’s Louise Hearman, and ask is it worth it?

27 Jul 2017

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Rolling out the carpet – the Archibald has all the hallmarks of a celebrity event, including a media mosh pit: Photo ArtsHub.

High profile, eagerly anticipated and often controversial, the Archibald Prize for portraiture was first awarded in 1921. That is the marketing tag that places this signature art prize in context.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina