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2009
Tattersall's Club
Landscape
Art
Prize
Tattersall's Club Landscape Art Prize
2009
The Background
The first Tattersall’s
Club Art Prize was held at the Club in October 1990. Thirty one
artists from around Australia entered the prize. Each artist was
invited to enter two works and there was no specific theme. The
judging in the first year was held at the storage rooms at Grace
Fine Art. This was before the Club’s extension and major
refurbishment. The works were transported to the Club and placed on
display for a week. In 1990 Gordon Shepherdson won the prize with
his entry Leaving the Garden a work on paper executed in oil
and enamel. In 1990 the entries included paintings by Judy Cassab,
Robert Dickerson, Brian Dunlop, Frank Hodgkinson, Jeffrey Makin,
Margaret Olley, John Perceval, David Rankin and John Rigby. The
Prize money was set at $15,000. The value of the exhibition was
$344,400. The Art Prize has continued annually to the present
day.
In 1991 the Club
decided to focus the Art Prize on the landscape theme with one
entry per artist. The Art Prize has grown in recognition to be a
major landscape art award in the national art competition calendar.
To allow the public to view and buy works from the exhibition it
was decided in 1992 to extend the exhibition period and the
paintings were relocated to the foyer of Waterfront Place following
the week long viewing in the Club. Winners of the Tattersall’s Club
Landscape Art Prize are:
1990 - Gordon
Shepherdson ‘Leaving the
Garden’
1991 - Jeffrey
Makin ‘Rubicon
Valley’
1992 - John
Millington ‘Night
Mill, Sugartown’
Elisabeth
Cummings ‘Stradbroke
Noon’
1993 - Kenneth
Jack ‘Mount
Painter’
1994 - Matthew Mc
Cord ‘Rebirth’
1995 - Andrew
Sibley ‘Kennettscape’
1996 - Marcel
Desbiens ‘The
Passage’
1997 - John
Caldwell ‘Slopes and
Tablelands’
1998 - Peter
Boggs ‘Vicenza
Landscape’
1999 - John
Caldwell ‘Above
Brachina Gorge’
2000 - Euan
Macleod ‘Two Views of
Sawpit Creek with Painting’
2001 - Sybil
Curtis ‘A Triangle
of Landscape’
2002 - David
Middlebrook ‘Morning
Desert Field’
2003 - Sybil
Curtis 'Pink and Grey
Cylinders'
2004 - Hélène
Grove 'Queensland
Country’
2005 - Craig
Waddell ‘On the
Wing’
2006 - Michael Nelson
Jagamarra ‘Moving Storm
2007 - Maureen
Hansen ‘Riparian
27'
2008 - Lisa
Adams 'Cold Wind'
Until 2003
the award was a non-acquisitive award with the prize money being
awarded and the Club retaining the right of option to purchase the
winning entry. In 2003 the award was changed to an acquisitive
award with the Club acquiring the winning entry. A Member’s
Choice Award allows Tattersall’s Club members to nominate their
favourite painting in the Art Prize. This vote is taken from the
Monday to the Wednesday while the award is on display at the
Club.
In 2007
the Art Prize became an open competition with a preliminary judging
in August. All professional and non professional artists are
now eligible to enter the competition.
The list of judges has included many prominent arts identities as
noted:
Mr Doug Hall Director of the Queensland Art Gallery
Mr Robin Gibson noted Queensland architect
Professor Margaret Mannion, Professor of Fine Arts, Melbourne
University
Mr Raoul Mellish, former Director of the Queensland Art
Gallery,
Mr Giles Auty, Art Critic for the Australian Newspaper
Mr Roger Mc Ilroy, Managing Director of Christies Australia
Professor David Williams, Director of the School of Art, Institute
of Arts ANU
Professor Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Director of the Queensland College
of Art
Mr Wayne Goss, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the QAG
Mr Barry Pearce, Head Curator of Australian Art NSWAG
Ms Frances Lindsay, Director of Museum of Art University of
Melbourne
Mr Ian Callinan QC
Mrs Bettina Mc Aulay, Art Valuer and former curator at the
Queensland ArtGallery
Tony Ellwood Director of the Queensland Art Gallery
Artists
who have also been included in the judging panel in various years
are:
Brian
Dunlop
Margaret
Olley
Jeffrey
Makin
Peter
Boggs
John Rigby
John
Caldwell
Mr
Andrew Sibley
Dr
Irene Amos
Geoff La
Gerche
June Tupicoff
John Bloomfield
The prize
money for the winning entry is now posted at $20,000. In addition
to selecting the winning entry each year the judges award Highly
Commended and Commended certificates for works which in their
opinion are of an exceptional quality. Etihad Airlways is the
sponsors of the 2009 Highly Commended Award with a prize of two
business class airfares to Europe and Hardy Brothers sponsored the
Member’s Choice Award with a $5,000 gift voucher.
Over the last nineteen
years paintings have been submitted to the Tattersall’s Club
Landscape Art Prize from every Australian State and Territory. Over
1200 paintings with a total value exceeding $6 million have been
shown at the Club
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P.O.Box
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Carindale,
QLD 4152 or
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at:
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