Jasper Knight

Jasper Knight (born 25 December 1978) is an Australian artist.

[1] Knight has been a finalist eight times in the Archibald Prize from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2019 and 2022, with portraits were of Richard Gill, Bob Carr, his grandfather Sir Harold Knight, Bill Wright AM, Jason Phu, Adam Cullen and Abdul Abdullah respectively, aside from himself.

A portrait of him by Sarah Hendy was a finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize.

In 2021 Knight’s portrait of artist Reko Rennie was accepted into the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

Knight is the Co-Director of Chalk Horse gallery in Darlinghurst His first major monograph is due out at the end of the year published by Thames & Hudson and a second publication titled ‘Fifty Portraits’ is due out in 2022 published by Artist Profile magazine.