It is with great excitement that we announce the finalists in The Archibull Prize 2015 .
The judges decision is in and now it’s your turn to decide the People’s Choice.
Click on the photo to see a larger version and vote for your favourite Archie.
We know these photos don’t do the entries justice so if you would like to see more elements and both sides of all these masterpieces and meet the students who created them you will find them in our Flickr Album here
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The Henry Lawson High School is an amazing school and these rural students have the dissected subject matter better than a butchers blade. And how about that nose!
Winner, winner, marbled beef dinner.
Yes, a fine bovine emblazoned with brilliance.
love kildare’s cow keep it up GO KILDARE!!!!!
Very proud to be apart of the Northlakes community. What an amooozing herd of students.
It’s great to see how they cottoned on to the concept! Well done Northlakes.
Stocks Rocks 🐮
Also proud to be part of the Northlakes community, such beautiful staff and students. Great job to all involved I hope you win 😃😃😃
Northlakes High Brilliant detail and love the knitted beany, makes a great story so interesting. Great work
HURLSTONE’S COW IS COOL
the melbourne cup of art-voting?
the melbourne cup of art voting?
GOOD luck north lake she🐮
GOOD luck northlakes🐮
For such a small school in a little country town Henry Lawson High School they have had some great achievements of the years. Congratulations on an amazing effort & good luck!!
Well done northlakes
Great work Northlakes. You deserve to win. you have put so much effort and thought into you’re work.
Well done Henry Lawson High School and Good Luck!
Well done Northlakes Public, you have obviously put a lot of thought and effort into your design. Hope you win.
Well done Henry Lawson High …some very talented young artists good luck.
Proud of our Henry Lawson High School in Grenfell,NSW – it is s great school, with great people and idea!
Good Luck Northlakes Staff and Students, great team work!
Northlakes School by a moooooole
Northlakes Public is great school please show your support and Vote please…..
Go northlakes you deserve it.
Great Job Northlakes PS Staff, students and visiting farmers. Fantastic effort and a wonderful learning experience.
I’m so impressed by Hurlstone’s cow!!!! AMAZING GUYS!
great job northlakes primary
Fantastic Job by everyone involved in the project at Northlakes.
Good Job Model Farms High!
Fantastic efforts Model Farms High – you have made your school proud
Hurlstone’s cow looks the best
Very well thought out design with environmental sensitivity too.
Great job!
Well done Northlakes Public, what a groovy calf!
Great communication of your theme Calvary Christian College (Carbrook)
HURLSTONE HURLSTONE YES WE ARE
CHEER-O-WOKA CHEER-O-WOKA EGO HAH
Calvary you did an amazing job of the cow. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Calvary Christian College Carbrook’s cow is incredible! Best I’ve ever seen in my entire life!
Does Hurlstone alway win?
No they dont always win – They have won 2 out of 5 years
Should have also won with the “cotton ipad cow” but had no colour like raw cotton so was “too far” out there for the judges
Calvary’s (Carbrook) Archibull is fab – and they are always doing so well at anything they attempt. Good kids, good teaching!
Congratulations northlakes it looks great
Brilliant West Pennant Hills….the best bull ever
Go hurlstone
Good luck Northlakes school
Well done Model Farms a great effort
Stockinbingal Public School has done a great job and deserve to win. So proud of you all!!
Gooooooo Stock!
So proud and honoured to be part of the Northlakes High School learning community…..❤ team Northlakes!!!!!
Well done Northlakes
Great stuff Northlakes Public!!
Welldone Model FArms. Nice looking cow.
Well done, Stockingbingal !
Great job by matraville!! Teacher and students have shown major dedication. Alot of time and effort has definitely been put into this one! Fingers crossed!
Go stockinbingal all the way
Well done!
Go Wiribelle! ☺
West Pennant Hills has done a commendabull job!!
Love the Wiripaang’s bull… The connectedness with another farming export of cotton, the Bonds brand tied in, the cotton reels, etc. Well done Wiripaang!
Good luck West Pennant Hills!!!
Good luck west pennant hills!
Go Wirribelle you gorgeous thing. Love the hair and socks, how did you cotton on to that idea!
West Pennant Hills your cow is fantastic!!! I love the trendy jeans and the extra bit of gold bling. But best of all I love that the kids got to add bits that reflected their learning – like the cotton touches from Year 1. Go West Penno!
*giggles* GO CALVARY! A working water system? Now that’s pretty cool. One side depicting what it is like with agriculture and the other the devastation that happens, along with noting that we are not the only people out there shows a wider knowledge of the world!
Wirraapang public school is a wonderful support network who not only are there for students and families but for the community.
Students have done a top notch job!!
Outstanding effort from the students and staff at Matraville sports high school! Congratulations!
Go Stockinbingal Public School. You guys have it in the bag! My favorite school Iv been to! 🙂
Very proud of the students at Stockinbingal….such a small school, such a great achievement
Great Job kids….love your work. Go Stockinbingal!!!!
Very proud of your entry West Pennant Hills – Gene looks fantastic! Congratulations to all of you and good luck.
Great work and efforts. Well done Calvary
Fantastic work Model Farms!!!
Gene West Pennant Hills you are amazing!!!!!
Congratulations and good luck!!!!
Go West Pennant Hills – looks fantastic!
Congratulations to Calvary Christian College – Springwood Campus. Cotley the cow is a wonderful display of thought provoking art. Good crop , Bad crop. Great ideas students.
Good luck Stockinbingal Public School
Good luck west pennant hills – great cow.
well done to all the students at Stock Public and thanks to the amazing teachers!
C’mon Model Farms!!!
West Pennant Hills great creative thinking, what an excellent result.
Congratulations and well done to all involved.
Great job west pennant hills
obviously hurlstone’s cow looks the best <333
Good luck to both Northlakes High and Northlakes public for a wonderful effort love it 😊😊
WOW the Hurlstone’s Cow! The detail of the muscles on the cow and the shadow filled with science equipment is impressive and clever. Well done to the students and staff at Hurlstone!
Wonderful work
Love it. Great job as always Northlakes Public.
Amazing! Great work
Well done Matraville! Looks amazing and such a good use of material.
Yo Hurlstone, I’m really happy for you. Imma let you finish, but Matraville had one of the best cows of all time.
Good Effort
The Hills Sports High School has made the finals on their first attempt. This is an amazing interactive artwork with powerful connections to the mentor farmer they worked with. Such a great use of materials and creative thinking. Well done to all.
Fantastic effort by students and staff at Matraville High School. Well done. A great standard of competion across the board.Congrats to all
Some really interesting and creative works here. I love to see the different interpretations on each cow being presented. Well done to all the schools in this competition.
Top shelf job again to Matraville High’s students – a talented bunch of kids! All schools look great, what a great competition!!!!
i love gwynneville public schools cow soooooo much
This is Calvary’s first ever entry and I am so impressed by the commitment of the kids and how much they learnt. Everything was done by the year 9 students and it has taught city kids do much about agriculture. You are already winners guys.
Well done to Calvary Springwood campus team. What an amazing outcome and your girl looks sensational. You can all be so proud of your efforts and getting to the final is a huge achievement.
Well done to everyone involved.
Well done Calvary Springwood Campus. What an amazing result getting to the finals!!
You can all be so proud of yourselves. I know how much work has gone into this project and all of your efforts have paid off. What a talented group of students you are.
Well done Northlakes High School looks fantastic!!!
Awesome bit of bovine
Absolutely loved this work of art . Very different , fresh and clever. Great work. 🙂
Wow, “unbovinable”, well done The Hills Sports High School, an excellent effort from talented students. Loved it
The Hills Sports High School’s one is amazing.
I like bovines,
eat them for dinner.
Hurlstone’s cow is
the clear winner.
Well done Hurlstone – as usual, you have set the bar high yet again:)
Mama had a chicken,
Daddy had a cow.
They just finished their bean burritos,
and they’re voting for Hurlstone now.
lm a Northlakes kid and lm in year 5 and my name is nat and I hope we win
well done northlakes
Go Calvary!
Go Calvary Carbrook!! You Rock big time!!!
The students have dedicated so much of their free time to peruse the agriculture course at the school! They have also done very well at the various shows they compete in.
All credit goes to their teachers, parents & themselves. They are so amazing!
Go calvary Christian college
Cowvary’s cow is incowdible becowse their cow can moose a cowtastic water filtration system moostly based off the uncown cowncept of tailwater. Cowvary deserve to win the moost becowse of their moognificant students and their mooraculous teacher Moosrs Cowsty Cowt. Cowngratmoolations on your moond-blowing cow!!!!
Cowvary’s cowtton cow is amoozing becowse they moode the moost amoozing cowncept of tailwater and none of the smoodents are art smoodents even though their painting scowlls are udderly incowible! Furthermoo, smoodents like Mookayla, Ellmoo, Annamoose, Cowmooron, Davcow and Almoox are absomootely moovellous and Moo-sers Cowsty Cowt is an udderly moognificent teachcow. Cowngratmoolations to the Cowvary smoodents and I hope your moognificent cow will becowme the winner!
Hills sports high well done
What a mooooooooving piece of artwork
such talent
Well done Hills Sports! Amazing work! 👍🏻
Some great displays of creativity, I’ve chosen my preference based upon my tastes.
Well done Hills Sports! 🐃🐃🐃
Kildare will beat everyone
Kildare is going to win!!
Good luck northlakes
Good Luck Kildare! We’ve got some really awesome-looking Archibull Cows out there!
northlakes public school is the best so vote for them to win