Sulman Lab

Posted 20 June 2024 03:49 PM

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June 20, 2024

I recently had a chance to visit the Archibald/Wynne/Sulman and as always was mighitly impressed with the hang. The AGNSW really puts on a good show. One thing I noticed had changed from previous years - the picture labels now included prior exhibition history with the Archibald. They weren't consistent in providing this information, or explicit. They just wove mention of it into the narrative, which is fine. But I'm able to give an explicit count in the table below.

The number of artists who have been selected two or more times in the Sulman is 33.5% - somewhat lower than for the Archibald.

We're going to do two things here - first let's compile a list of the 2024 finalists and see how many times they have been selected in the Sulman Prize. And then we'll take a look at the top multi-finalists for all time. In both instances I've let the nerds in the lab go over the numbers so let's hope they got it right.

Starting with the percentage of finalists that have been in a prior finalist exhibition for the Sulman:

2023 Total Finalists: 44 Re-Entries: 16 Re-Entry Rate: Approximately 36.4%

2024 Total Finalists: 41 Re-Entries: 17 Re-Entry Rate: Approximately 41.5%

The overall figure for all years the years (we don't go back beyond 1990)  is 33.5%

2024 Finalists

Artist

Year

Previous Entries Count

Previous Years

Sally Anderson

2024

2

2021, 2024

Mostafa Azimitabar

2024

2

2023, 2024

Rat Bedlington

2024

2

2022, 2024

Natasha Bieniek

2024

1

2024

Karen Black

2024

4

2017, 2018, 2019, 2024

Maggie Brink

2024

1

2024

Mark Maurangi Carrol

2024

1

2024

Nick Collerson

2024

2

2019, 2024

Dean Cross

2024

1

2024

Jedda-Daisy Culley

2024

1

2024

David Eastwood

2024

1

2024

Zaachariaha Fielding

2024

1

2024

Emily Galicek

2024

1

2024

Holly Greenwood

2024

2

2022, 2024

Megan Hales

2024

1

2024

Katherine Hattam

2024

5

2002, 2004, 2020, 2023, 2024

Nadia Hernandez

2024

2

2023, 2024

Laura Jones

2024

1

2024

Naomi Kantjuriny

2024

1

2024

Iluwanti Ken

2024

2

2023, 2024

Ildiko Kovacs

2024

6

1998, 1999, 2006, 2019, 2021, 2024

Mac Mansfield

2024

1

2024

Noel McKenna

2024

13

1996, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024

Darren Mcdonald

2024

2

2006, 2024

Nigel Milsom

2024

3

2011, 2019, 2024

Sally M Mulda

2024

4

2019, 2022, 2023, 2024

Ivan Namirrkki

2024

1

2024

Motorbike Paddy Ngale

2024

1

2024

Oscar Nimmo

2024

1

2024

Kenny Pittock

2024

1

2024

Benedict dos Remedios

2024

1

2024

Thom Roberts

2024

1

2024

Adrian Robertson

2024

2

2022, 2024

Nick Santoro

2024

3

2019, 2023, 2024

Gemma Smith

2024

1

2024

Adrian Charles Smith

2024

1

2024

Elefteria Vlavianos

2024

1

2024

Amber Wallis

2024

1

2024

Stuart Watters

2024

1

2024

Guan Wei

2024

5

1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2024

Yaritji Young

2024

1

2024

 

All time multi-finalists

By Martin Shub

July 2024