Angus McDonalds’s portrait of indigenous activist Marcia Langton has taken home the Archibald Prize People's Choice award.
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00:00The 2024 Archibald Prize People's Choice Award has been won by artist Angus Macdonald for
00:07his portrait of Marsha Langton.
00:09Angus Macdonald is a seven-time finalist of the Archibald Prize and previously won the
00:13People's Choice Award in 2020.
00:15His work this year was an oil-on-canvas portrait of Aboriginal writer and activist Marsha Langton.
00:21Marsha Langton is a towering figure in our social history.
00:26She's one of our greatest ever thinkers.
00:30She spent a lifetime fighting and struggling for recognition, reconciliation and justice
00:35for our First Nations people.
00:38She's done that with the courage of her convictions, with following her own path.
00:43More than 21,000 people voted in the competition for the award this year, which is the third
00:47highest voter turnout since the award start in 1998.
00:51While the People's Choice Prize is the final to be awarded for the Archibald this year,
00:55the exhibition will remain on display in the Art Gallery of New South Wales until September
00:59before being toured around the state.