Archibald Prize winning picture by Vincent Namatjira - "Stand Strong For Who You Are".
The Archibald is coming to the Northern Rivers. Australia's most coveted portrait prize, won this year by Western Arrente artist, Vincent Namatjira, for a portrait of himself alongside champion footballer Adam Goodes titled "Stand Strong For Who You Are", opens at the Tweed Regional Gallery in January
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Azziz Abdul Muhamat and Behrouz Boochani discuss their predicament on Manus.
Earlier this year at The Farm in Byron Bay, I screened a documentary I directed in 2019 called "MANUS". The film shares the story of Australia's brutal offshore processing policy through the secretly filmed testimonials of refugees and asylum seekers held captive for years by the Federal government on Manus Island.
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Archibald Prize finalist Angus McDonald with Behrouz Boochani’s Resistance, which he says is a portrait of the refugee's unshakeable resolve.
On Thursday morning, a portrait I painted of the Kurdish-Iranian refugee, writer and journalist Behrouz Boochani was included among the finalists for this year’s coveted Archibald Prize.
Boochani, finally free and living in New Zealand after the Australian government held him for more than six years on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, symbolises the struggle for a more humane and compassionate approach to the way this country treats those who arrive here seeking our protection and safety.
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