Nicholas Harding was a British-born Autsralian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2001 with a portrait of John Bell as King Lear. He was born in 1956 and died from cancer on 2 Nov. 2022 at age 66.
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Was Nicholas Harding married? There is no information on his wife so it is believed that the art icon was not married.
Harding was a finalist in the Archibald Prize for thirteen years in a row from 1994 to 2006, and also in 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020.
Harding also won the People’s Choice Award at the 2005 Archibald, with Bob’s Daily Swim.
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In 2020, he published From the Wings a limited-edition 312-page book containing a selection of his theatre rehearsal drawings from 2013 to 2018.
In 2021, his 2001 Archibald Prize-winning portrait John Bell as King Lear was included in the Archie 100 exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrating 100 years of the Archibald Prize.
His work has been included in many public collections, including;
- Art Gallery of South Australia,
- Tweed River Art Gallery,
- Art Gallery of New South Wales,
- Newcastle Art Gallery,
- Maitland Regional Art Gallery
- The National Gallery of Australia and
- National Portrait Gallery.
This year, he won the Wynne Prize with a lush landscape entitled Eora.
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