John Beard is an important contemporary painter whose struggle to maintain a dynamic tension in seductive images that investigate the structures of representation comes to a head in his recent Self-portrait series and the latest paintings of Ayers Rock…
In a room of very big heads, it was a monochromatic noggin that took home the Archibald Prize. John Beard’s portrait of the installation artist Janet Laurence is one of a series of paintings of his artist pals, two of which have been hung as finalists in the previous two Archibald Prize exhibitions…