Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Pim Verbeek at the Bald Archies 2010


So it's all good to post up now, I was a finalist at this years spoof to Australia's Archibald Prize, the Bald Archy's.

Congratulations to Judy Nadin whose hilarious painting of Bert made headlines pretty much everywhere. Happy to be part of all the brew-ha-ha really.

So, okay, he's not the most glamourous, most famous Socceroos coach ever in Australia. But in this sport loving culture we have here, I thought it would be a travesty to not have an Australian football piece in this gllllllllorious World Cup year. Way back when, I just found his head to be really funny. It's commanding but if you were down 2-0 at half time, would you really take anything that came out his mouth seriously? What about the "Something About Mary" tuft of hair waving around.

And it doesn't look like it, but this piece is big. HUUUUUUUUGE in fact. So do yourself a favour and get down to the Bald Archy exhibition touring around Australia at the moment. It's in Sydney right now till the 25th of April at the ABC Ultimo Centre. Further dates can be found here.

50 days to the World Cup!!!



9 comments:

  1. I like this! The like button works, man :D

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  2. Great painting. Love your work.

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  3. Very good painting, nice 1!
    Thanks for following my blog, feel free to comment on any of my work and please tell others about my blog, Thank you:)

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  4. Congrats on being one of the finalists Noz, awesome work!

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  5. thanks so much for your comments guys! Hope you get to the exhibition wherever you are.

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  6. This is really nice Nori - I remember an earlier Pim you posted - good work.
    6D pen no good in PS Mmmmmm - I so love new toys !!

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  7. Oh and from June 13th this little area of artistic activity in Perth goes into hibernation for a month and I'd imagine you'd be similar - I just love the WC !!!

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  8. Hey! This is a very great job! Love it!

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