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Winner: People's Choice 1995

Josonia Palaitis Bill Leak

oil on canvas

175 x 130 cm

This portrait by Josonia Palaitis of artist and cartoonist Bill Leak (1956–2017) won the 1995 People’s Choice award. A regular exhibitor in the Archibald Prize, Leak won the People’s Choice the year before for his portrait of Malcolm Turnbull. (He would go on to win the Packing Room Prize twice: in 1997 and 2000.)