Francis Giacco

{{Short description|Australian artist (born 1955)}}

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Francis Giacco (born 1955) is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1994 with Homage to John Reichard.{{Citation | last = Cochrane | first = Peter | date = 19 March 1994 | title = Independent from of mind wins Archibald | periodical = The Sydney Morning Herald}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/tradition-and-illusions-from-italy-with-love-20051103-gdmdc3.html|title=Tradition and illusions, from Italy with love|date=3 November 2005|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=20 November 2018}} Giacco has a Bachelor of Architecture from the UNSW and is a longtime teacher at the Julian Ashton Art School, The Rocks, Sydney. His classes are characterized by a structured and logical approach to the tradition of classical drawing and painting techniques.

He had been a finalist the previous year, with his portrait of SBS newsreader, Lee Lin Chin{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118158837|title=Surrealist misses as Giacco stuns art world|last=Macklin|first=Robert|date=19 March 1994|work=Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995)|access-date=20 November 2018|pages=3}}

In 2014 he won the Percival Portrait Painting Prize, with a portrait of Charles Blackman.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thechronicle.com.au/whats-on/percival-portrait-painting-prize/102018/|title=Percival Portrait Painting Prize|work=Chronicle|access-date=20 November 2018|language=en}}