Jasper Knight

Who is Jasper Knight?

Jasper Knight is an Australian artist based in Sydney. He is the brother of Chaser writer and ABC Radio presenter Dominic Knight.

Knight was a finalist in the Archibald Prize from 2005-7, and again in 2009, 2010 and 2013 with portraits were of Richard Gill, Bob Carr, his grandfather Sir Harold Knight, himself, Bill Wright AM and Adam Cullen respectively. He was also a finalist in the 2005, 2006, 2011 and 2012 Wynne Prize for landscape painting, and the 2013 Sir John Sulman Prize. He won the Mosman Art Prize in 2008.

In 2012 Knight was a finalist for the first time in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of Australian painter Jeffrey Smart. A portrait of him by Sarah Hendy was a finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize.