The churchie emerging art prize explained

the churchie emerging art prize, formerly the churchie national emerging art prize and also known informally as the churchie, is a national Australian non-acquisitive art award and art exhibition, established in 1987.

History

The award was established in 1987^[1] as an initiative of the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane (known as "Churchie"^[2]).^[3]

Brand + Slater Architects became the major prize sponsors from around 1998.^[4]

From 2010, the finalists were exhibited in the Griffith University Art Gallery (GUAG) at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane.^[4] Its name was at that time "the churchie national emerging art prize".^{[5] [6]} GUAG established a partnership with the school, and staff members from the school sat on the Emerging Art Committee as well as developing educational materials to complement the exhibition, aimed at school-age students.^[4]

Since 2019 and, the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane has hosted the awards.^{[7] [8]}

Description

Its aim is to help develop the careers of emerging artists. This term refers to artists who already have a body of work and some profile as an artist, but "not yet fully established in their artistic career".^[4]

All finalists' work is displayed at the gallery in a curated exhibition. it has a prize pool of, with the major prize of sponsored by BSPN Architecture.^[8] There is also a People's Choice Award of, decided by visitors to the exhibition of the work of all finalists at the end of the exhibition run.^[9]

All work in the exhibition is available for sale.^[4]

Past events and winners

• 2012: Guest judge Maura Reily^[10]
  • Major Prize Winner – Heath Franco
  • Highly Commended – Agatha Gothe-Snape
  • Highly commended – Sam Cranstoun^[4]
  • Highly commended – Genevieve Kemarr Loy
• 2013: Guest judge Roslyn Oxley; Peter McKay, Curator of QAGOMA, was on the finalists committee. Only 32 finalists were selected and included in the exhibition at GUAG,^[4] which was the smallest ever number until then.^{[5] [6]}
  • Major prize – Amy Tam (aka Liberté Grace), for her video The Perfect Boy Myth (version 1)^[4]
  • commended – Becc Orszag, for three drawings^[4]
  • commended – Annika Koops, for her photograph Sissy^[4]
• 2014: Guest judge Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director of ARTSPACE Visual Arts Centre in Sydney; 42 finalists^[11]
• 2015: Michaela Gleave^[12]
• 2016: Guest judge Kelly Gellatly, Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne^[3]
• 2021: Guest judge Rhana Devenport, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia;^[9] exhibition curated by Grace Herbert.^[13]
  • Major prize – Nina Sanadze, Georgian-born artist now living in Melbourne, for Apotheosis, s sculptural work^[9]
  • Special Commendation Prize – Kyra Mancktelow, based in Brisbane^[9]
  • Commendation – Riana Head-Toussaint, based in Sydney^[9]
  • Commendation – Visaya Hoffie, based in Brisbane^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize . The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize . 14 March 2022.
2. Web site: About Churchie . Anglican Church Grammar School. 14 September 2021 . 14 March 2022.
3. Web site: The churchie national emerging art prize . QUT Art Museum . 25 May 2020 . 14 March 2022.
4. Book: Treloar, Teo. 2013. The Churchie Art Award for Emerging Artists. University of Wollongong. Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers: 1295.
5. News: Smallest number of finalists ever selected for 'the churchie. Tasmanian Times. Naomi . Evans. June 2013. 14 March 2022.
6. Web site: West Hobart artist finalist in churchie national emerging art prize . . 17 July 2013 . 14 March 2022.
7. Web site: Institute of Modern Art . . 29 November 2021 . 14 March 2022.
8. Web site: Enter . The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize . 14 March 2022.
9. Web site: Winners announced for the churchie emerging art prize . Art Collector. Charlotte . Middleton . 22 October 2021 . 14 March 2022.
10. Web site: 2012 . The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize . 8 September 2012 . 14 March 2022.
11. Web site: 'the churchie' national emerging art prize 1 August – 20 September 2014: Exhibition labels. Griffith University. 14 March 2022.
12. Web site: Waiting for Time (7 Hour Confetti Work) The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize . 2023-02-05 . churchieemergingart.com.
13. Web site: Brisbane . Institute of Modern Art . the churchie emerging art prize 2021 . Institute of Modern Art . 18 December 2021 . 14 March 2022.