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On winning Katrin Koenning said, “If one of the roles of the artist is to engage critically with the times in which they live, winning the Bowness enables me to continue doing so. I could not be more thankful, or more proud.”
Jack Lanagan Dunbar has been awarded the $40,000 2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. The Sydney-based artist was selected from a field of nine finalists for his body of work titled Pantheon.
Jahnne Pasco-White has won the $50,000 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize.
Rew Hanks has won the $16,000 first prize in the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award with his two-metre-long linocut, Gone Fishing East of Faskrudsfjordur.
Visual artists Angela Tiatia and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran are among the nine Sidney Myer Creative Fellows for 2019. Nominated artists must meet the criteria of “outstanding talent and exceptional professional courage.”
Reko Rennie has been awarded the second Artbank + ACMI Commission, with the artist creating a new video work titled What Do We Want.
Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Stacie Piper has been appointed as First Peoples Curator at the TarraWarra Museum of Art as part of the Yalingwa initiative.
Susan Norrie has been awarded $50,000 as recipient of the third annual Don Macfarlane Prize. The award is given to a senior Australian artist to spend as they please; no particular outcomes are required.
Blak Douglas has won the 2019 Kilgour Prize with his large graphic portrait of actress and singer Ursula Yovich.
Sally Robinson has won the 2019 Portia Geach Memorial Award. The Sydney-based artist took out the $30,000 portrait painting prize for women with her self-portrait titled Body in a box.
The Indigenous artist took out the annual $100,000 prize for landscape painting with his densely layered canvas titled Four Dreamings.
Lynda Draper has won the fifth biennial Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award. The Sydney-based artist took out the $50,000 prize with her 2019 series Somnambulism.
