*** A reminder, particularly to new geocachers, that in order to claim an online find, you must retrieve the physical cache container and sign the logbook within it. Please make sure you have a pen/pencil with you. This is a fundamental rule of geocaching.
Totally Findable Tourist Caches
Welcome to Sydney
This series of geocaches is designed primarily with visitors to Sydney in mind who may have limited time and transport options and want a quick and easy find while out enjoying some sightseeing around this beautiful city.
All cache containers will be one of three types; a flat magnetic key case (MKC), a round film canister (FC or MFC for magnetic) or a fake rock (FR).
The hint will indicate the type of container used and will be very specific to help you find the cache easily. If you want a challenge to find this cache and don't wish to know exactly where it's hidden, do not look at the hint.
At each location you’ll be given some information about the site you are visiting.
Enjoy!
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Across the road from this location is the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The classically elegant buildng is one of Sydney's most distinctive landmarks built between 1896 and 1909. Architecturally, the building reflects 19th-century ideas about the cultural role of a gallery as a temple to art and civilising values.
Each year, the Gallery hosts the Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded to the best portrait, 'preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics, painted by any artist resident in Australasia'. This open competition is judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW with $100,000 being awarded to the winning artist.
You can view the Archibald Prize Exhibition for yourself. It will be open from the 6th May to the 3rd September, 2023. Tickets will be available for purchase from the Art Gallery NSW website closer to the exhibition date.
William Dobell
Image: National Portrait Gallery
Over the years, the Archibald Prize has attracted its share of controversy. In 1943, William Dobell's portrait of his good friend and fellow artist, Joshua Smith, titled "Portrait of an Artist", was awarded the Archibald Prize. This was contested in 1944 by two unsuccessful entrants (Mary Edwell-Burke and Joseph Wolinski), who brought a lawsuit against Dobell and the Gallery's Board of Trustees in the Supreme Court of New South Wales on the grounds that the painting was a caricature (as opposed to a "portrait") and therefore not eligible for the prize. Public opinion was sharply divided, with most viewers puzzled by the unexpected portrait. The claim was dismissed and the award was upheld, but the ordeal left Dobell emotionally drained and he retreated in 1945 to his sister's home at Wangi Wangi on Lake Macquarie, where he began to paint landscapes.
The Supreme Court opinion by Mister Justice Roper said:
The picture in question is characterized by some startling exaggeration and distortion, clearly intended by the artist, his technique being too brilliant to admit of any other conclusion. It bears, nevertheless, a strong degree of likeness to the subject and is, I think, undoubtedly a pictorial representation of him. I find it a fact that it is a portrait within the meaning of the words in the will, and consequently the trustees did not err in admitting it to the competition.
Source: Wikipedia
I'll let you be the judge…..
"Portrait of an Artist"
by William Dobell
Images: Art Gallery of NSW and Sydney Morning Herald