Art Promotions QLD, Exhibitions, Tattersall Club Landscape Art Prize

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’

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. Three judges Bruce Heiser, Dr Lindsay Farrell & Cynthia Breusch selected seventy works from a field of one hundred and sixty two electronic images of paintings. On September 11 a judging panel including Senior Judge Giles Auty, Craig Gordon and June Tupicoff selected the winning work by Maureen Hansen titled Riparian 27

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

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

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. Emirates Airlines sponsored the 2007 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 eighteen 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.

2007 WINNER

Brisbane artist Maureen Hansen has won the 2007 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize. Maureen’s oil painting ‘Riparian 27’ depicts a panoramic view of the Storey Bridge reach of the Brisbane River. Maureen accepted the $20,000 prize money cheque from the Club President, Mr Jonathan Bloxom at a gala opening night function last night.

New South Wales artist Paul Ryan won the Highly Commended Award with his painting ‘The Valley - Swamp Natives & Galangal ‘. The Highly Commended award this year carries a prize sponsored by Emirates Airline of two business class tickets to London. Sydney based artist Patrick Carroll has been awarded a commended certificate for his work ‘The Entrance, the Transition’

The Club’s Members Choice Award was won by Scott Mc Dougall from Sydney with his painting ‘ Ellery Creek , Big Hole Northern Territory’ Scott receives a $5,000 gift voucher to Hardy Brothers Jewellers

The judging panel for the finalist’s exhibition was Giles Auty Arts Journalist and artist, Gordon Craig, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections Queensland University of Technology and Brisbane Artist June Tupicoff.

The Exhibition will be relocated to Waterfront Place in Eagle St Brisbane for two weeks of public viewing from Monday September 17. Images of the entries to this year’s Art Prize will be posted on the Tattersalls Club web site

www.tattersallsclub.com

on Thursday September 13 where they are also available for purchase.

FINALISTS SELECTED FOR TATTERSALL'S CLUB ART PRIZE 2007

GREG ADAMS - GRAEME ALTMANN - PETER ANDERSON - ALLISON BENNETT - PETER BOGGS - KATHRYN BRIMALECOMBE-FOX - CHANTALE CABALE - PATRICK CARROLL - PAUL CHING-BOR - LILLY CHORNY - GLENISE CLELLAND - LAURA COHEN - JASON CORDERO - JOANNE CURRIE NALINGU - ELIZABETH DUGUID - MICHAEL EATHER - PAUL EVANS - JOE FURLONGER - STEVEN HALL - MAUREEN HANSEN - BRENT HARVEY - BELYNDA HENRY - DAVID HINCHLIFFE - ROBERT HOLCOMBE - PETER HUDSON - TODD HUNTER MARIE HUTTON - MICHAEL NELSON JAGAMARRA - JAN JORGENSEN - CAROLE KING - CHRISTINE KIRKEGARD - PAMELA KOUWENHOVEN - MAL LECKIE - NYIKINA LOONGKOONAN - JEFFREY MAKIN - PETE MARTIN - TOM MC AULAY - SCOTT MCDOUGALL - JENNIFER MCDOWELL - SYLVIA MCEWAN - ROBYN MC MENAMIN - PAUL MILBURN - YVONNE MILLS-STANLEY - CLEM MILLWARD - KEVIN MORTENSEN - NICOLA MOSS - KEVIN OXLEY - DAVID PAULSON - CAROLINE PENNY - SHANE PICKET - ALAN PURNELL - JOHN RIGBY - CHRISTIAN CLARE ROBERTSON - SANDRA ROSS - PAUL RYAN - VINCENT SERICO - PETER SERWAN - PETER SMETS - IAN SMITH - DAVID STEWART - JENNIFER STUERZL - PIR TAREEN - LEE-ANE TREWARTHA - LUKE WAGNER - PAM WALPOLE - LUCY WARD - PHILIPPA WEBB - JUDITH WHITE - JAMES WILLEBRANT - ZHI-PENG WU

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