Ben Apfelbaum

YOUNG ARCHIES ON DISPLAY @ ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

This year there were more than 2100 paintings submitted in the Young Archie competition. From these entries this year’s judge,  artist Ramesh Nithiyendran,  selected 40 paintings and another 20 were given honourable mentions.

The ten finalists from each age category are displayed at the Art Gallery of NSW until 26 September 2021 and the honourable mentions at the SH Ervin Gallery.

Below are Ben Apfelbaum’s pics of some of the paintings on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.  

As a result of the recent Covid19 outbreak, Greater Sydney is in lockdown for, at the least, a two week period. The Art Gallery Of New South Wales is closed for the duration of the lockdown. Hopefully the current outbreak will be contained and the Gallery will soon be able to open its doors again.

Allanah Pitcher Age 17 Unfiltered
Caity James Age 17,
Reflections
Sam Glen Age 16, Staircase
Yebyul Park Age 16, ‘In front of the green door’
Hanna Park Age 15 My Roots
Jacqueline Qin Age 15, My sister
Ella Flitton Age 11 My hero Dad,
Isabel Black Garcia Age10, Diego
Evelyn Garth Age 6, My sister
Audrey Hemmings Age 5, Daddy

Featured image : Virat Tandon, Age 9, ‘My grandfather’s secret garden’

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.