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Jenny Sages is an Archibald Prize peoples choice award winning Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China. She arrived in Australia in 1948. After being expelled from East Sydney Tech, Jenny moved to New York to study at Franklin School of Art. She was a freelance writer and illustrator for Vogue Australia until the 1980s before starting full-time painting in 1985 at the age of 52.〔(Profile from Australian Art Review )〕 She has entered the Archibald Prize at least 15 times, and been hung at least 14 times. She has also been hung in the Blake Prize and Dobell Prize. She won the Portia Geach Memorial Prize twice. She received a highly commended in the Wynne Prize in 1999 with ''The Leichhardt''. She won the Wynne Prize in 2005. Sages was one of five artists featured in the award winning documentary film, ''Two Thirds Sky - Artists in Desert Country'', directed by Sean O'Brien in 2002. She was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary ''Loaded Brush''. Sages is the subject of the documentary ''Paths to Portraiture'' by filmmaker Catherine Hunter. For the 2011 Archibald Prize, Jenny painted Jack Sages her husband and companion of 55 years. The painting was accepted but Jack died before the exhibition opened. In 2012 Sages turned her gaze inward in an attempt to capture her grief. Hunter was with the artist as she dealt with her husband’s death and then the 2012 Archibald Prize success.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Jenny Sages - Paths to Portraiture )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jenny Sages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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