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