FINALIST - ADELAIDE PERRY DRAWING PRIZE PLC SYDNEY - 2023

A fantastic start to 2024!... So honoured to be one of the 40 incredible finalists from across Australia in the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize at PLC Sydney…Congratulations to all finalists!

This year's judge, Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA, art historian, art critic and curator, selected a shortlist of 40 works. The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is a $25,000 acquisitive art award among the most significant of its kind in the country. Named in honour of respected painter, printmaker and draughtswoman, Miss Adelaide Elizabeth Perry (1891-1973) who taught Visual Arts at PLC Sydney from 1930 to 1962, the Prize attracts submissions from around the country, and this year was no different.

From over 400 entries, Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin, art historian, art critic and curator, has selected this year's Perry Prize shortlist. Just prior to the opening of the Exhibition of Finalists, Sasha Grishin will return to the Gallery to select the overall winner.

Sasha Grishin is the author of over 30 books about art, including Australian Art: A History, and wrote for The Canberra Times as art critic for fortv-five years. He has delivered guest lectures at universities, art galleries and museums throughout Australia, Asia, North America and Europe including Harvard University, the Hermitage Museum, Being Central Academy and London University. PLC Sydney has been honoured to have had his participation in this capacity.

From over 400 entries, Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin, art historian, art critic and curator, has selected this year's Perry Prize shortlist. Just prior to the opening of the Exhibition of Finalists, Sasha Grishin will return to the Gallery to select the overall winner.

Sasha Grishin is the author of over 30 books about art, including Australian Art: A History, and wrote for The Canberra Times as art critic for forty-five years. He has delivered guest lectures at universities, art galleries and museums throughout Australia, Asia, North America and Europe including Harvard University, the Hermitage Museum, Beijing Central Academy and London University. PLC Sydney has been honoured to have had his participation in this capacity.

The 2024 finalists are

Kim Anderson, Andrew Antoniou, Suzanne Archer, Deborah Beck, John Bokor, Julie Bradley, Kate Briscoe, Louisa Chircop, Matthew Clarke, Jo Darvall, Dana Dion, Jacqui Driver, Yvonne East, David Fairbairn, Kaye Green, Jenny Herbert-Smith, Todd Hunter, Locust Jones, Barbie Kjar, Yvonne Langshaw, Rosie Lloyd-Giblett, Marco Luccio, Paula Martin, Annabel Mason, Kerry McInnis, Noel McKenna, Tony Mighell, Alexandra Mills, Robbi Neal, Geoffrey Odgers, Catherine O'Donnell, Vicki Parish, Amanda Penrose Hart, Melinda Schawel, Jeannette Siebols, Sally Simpson, Wendy Teakel, Claire Tozer, Anna Warren and Steve Woodbury.

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FINALIST - ADELAIDE PERRY PRIZE FOR DRAWING 2022 - ADELAIDE PERRY GALLERY PLC SYDNEY

It’s so lovely to start the year off with some great news!

I’m feeling very humbled and delighted to be selected as a finalist in the ‘Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2022’ by judge Dr Andrew Frost, art critic, lecturer and broadcaster. The shortlist of finalists represents some of Australia’s most esteemed talent and I’m so proud to be represented amongst so many incredible artistic peers.

The Adelaide Perry Gallery received over 400 entries for the 17th Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. The annual $25,000 acquisitive prize, generously supported by PLC Sydney Parents and Friends’ Association, drew entries from across Australia and the College was delighted to have the participation and expertise of Dr Andrew Frost who created a shortlist of 46 finalists (see below) for the award. Dr Frost returns to the Gallery in February to select the overall winner.

The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing Exhibition of Finalists 2022 is open to the public, by appointment only from 26 February – 25 March. 
Gallery hours 8.30 am – 4.00 pm weekdays and 11.00 am – 4.00 pm Saturdays. 

To make a booking please email adelaideperrygallery@plc.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations to this year’s finalists in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2022!

THE 2022 SHORTLISTED ARTISTS ARE:

FINALIST - MILBURN ART PRIZE 2021 - BRISBANE INSTITUTE OF ART

I’m very excited to be selected as a finalist in this year’s Milburn Art Prize at the Brisbane Institute of Art with my work ‘Sounds at Pulpit Rock Bundanon’. Good luck to all the finalists selected in this year’s prize.

The 2021 Milburn Art Prize for Landscape reflects the evolving nature and aims of BIA to honour Paul Milburn, a much loved and respected tutor who began teaching in 1989 at BIA until his death in 2011. With this in mind we offer a prize of $10,000 awarded for a 2d artwork addressing the spirit of Paul Milburn’s legacy and John Peart’s musings on landscape as quoted below. Accepted media includes painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media and photography.

I see pictorial space as an inner landscape for the mind’s eye to roam; so it is not surprising if my paintings evoke the feeling of landscape. (I) know it is a mental projection but it is inherently delightful. While painting, I am issuing an open invitation for these illusions - or allusions – to enter. My conscious mind can be occupied with the making, and the unconscious can come up with its own surprises. John Peart

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‘Sounds at Pulpit Rock Bundanon’,  103cm x 66cm, mixed media on water colour paper

‘Sounds at Pulpit Rock Bundanon’, 103cm x 66cm, mixed media on water colour paper

FINALIST - ADELAIDE PERRY PRIZE FOR DRAWING 2021

What a way to start 2021!

I’ve been selected as a finalist in this year’s ‘Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing’ by one of Australia’s most esteemed and foremost contemporary artists Lindy Lee.

This year, PLC Sydney’s annual Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing received over 480 entries from artists across Australia. PLC Sydney was honoured to have the participation of esteemed artist Lindy Lee, as judge who viewed submissions in January and made a selection of 44 finalists. Lindy will visit the Gallery in February, just prior to the official opening of the 2021 Exhibition of Finalists, to decide upon the overall winner of the $25,000 acquisitive prize. The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2021 Exhibition of Finalists opens at 7.00 pm Friday 26 February.

Congratulations to this year’s finalists in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing!

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Finalist - ‘Self as Water Feature', mixed media and photomontage on watercolour paper, 103cm x 56cm

Finalist - ‘Self as Water Feature', mixed media and photomontage on watercolour paper, 103cm x 56cm

RECIPIENT - DRAWinternational ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2020 FRANCE

2020 is certainly shaping up to be a busy one and I’m pleased to announce I’ll be heading of to France again for a couple of months as Artist-in-Residence at DRAWInternational Caylus. The AIR programme aims to support artists in their professional practice/research and encourage creative exchange and fosters artistic research to promote and reveal ideas within a contemporary context.

DRAW welcomes applications from artists of all countries and all disciplines 
(drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, photography, printmaking, design, multimedia, video, installation as well as writers) for residencies of 1 to 3 months.

Artists are selected on the quality of their residency proposal, it's relevance to DRAW's philosophy and environment and evidence of previous artistic work. The centre organises events (exhibitions, open workshops and seminars/presentations to promote it's activities and share creative experience and opportunities within the public domain.

DRAWinternational offers international artists, teachers and students the opportunity to extend professional practice through cultural exchange.

Board :
Artistic director :

John McNorton

Administrator :
Grete McNorton

Board Members :
Professor Deanna Petherbridge CBE
Professor Graham Button
Paul Beauchamp - Principal Lecturer

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GROUP SHOW GALERIE HEIMAT SAINT-RÉMY FRANCE- 'EXPOSITION NOËL_001' 2020

Feeling the Christmas spirit and feeling very special to be included in ‘Exposition Noël_001’ at Galerie Heimat in Saint-Rémy Provence France, the village town where Van Gogh made it famous. Curated by the ever so lovely and beautifully spirited Alexandra Chiara director of this stunning commercial gallery in the heart of Provence. She has brought together nine artists (painters, sculptors and jewellery makers) both locally and internationally from France, Germany, China, Finland and me from Australia. It touched me that she was so excited to welcome me as her first ever Australian artist from wayyyy down under! and be representing me in this exhibition. I wish I could be there for the opening but I’ll be seeing you all again in 2020 when I will be doing my residency. Exhibition opens Saturday 7th December. The exhibition continues until the 11th January 2020. Gallery Hours Thursday - Sunday 11am - 7pm. JOYEUX NOËL !

‘Mange moi, bois moi, aime-moi’ (Eat me, drink me, love me), mixed media and photomontage on paper 51cm x 40.5cm

‘Mange moi, bois moi, aime-moi’ (Eat me, drink me, love me), mixed media and photomontage on paper 51cm x 40.5cm