A $60,000 prize aiming to encourage the “unfashionable” use of traditional painting techniques has been won by an artist who stared at the permanent collection of the National Gallery Of Victoria to teach himself.
Melbourne’s Sean Layh on Sunday beat 105 entrants in the fifth edition of the biennial Evelyn Chapman Art Award. His Hamlet and the fracturing of Ophelia used the same actor to model Shakespeare’s tragic prince as Layh did for The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, the painting which won him the $3000 Archibald Packing Room Prize in April .
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