Sir John Sulman Prize
The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, having been established in 1936.
It is now held concurrently with the Archibald Prize, Australia's best-known art prize, and also with the Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney.
Criteria
[edit]The Sir John Sulman Prize is awarded each year for "the best subject/genre painting and/or murals/mural project executed during the two years preceding the [closing] date", and as of 2008 is valued at $20,000. Media may be acrylic, oil, watercolour or mixed media, and applicants must have been resident in Australia for five years.[1]
The definition of the terms as given by the AGNSW is:
- A genre painting is normally a composition representing some aspect or aspects of everyday life, and may feature figurative, still-life, interior or figure-in-landscape themes. A subject painting, in contrast to a genre painting, is idealised or dramatised. Typically, a subject painting takes its theme from history, poetry, mythology or religion. In both cases, however, the style may be figurative, representative, abstract or semi-abstract. A mural is a picture that is affixed directly to a wall or ceiling, as part of an architectural and/or decorative scheme.[1]
List of winners
[edit]Source:[2]
- 1939 – Gert Sellheim – Mural decoration on wall of Victorian Government Tourist Bureau, Hotel Australia Building, 272 Collins Street, Melbourne
- 1940 – Harold Abbott – Vaucluse Interior (painting)
- 1941 – Douglas Annand – Historical Mural at Bathurst Public School
- 1942 – Jean Bellette – For Whom the Bell Tolls (painting)
- 1943 – Elaine Haxton – Mural at le Coq D'Or Restaurant, Sydney
- 1944 – Jean Bellette – Iphigenia in Tauris (painting)
- 1945 – Virgil Lo Schiavo – Tribute to Shakespeare, Mural at Sydney University Union
- 1946 – Sali Herman – Natives carrying wounded soldiers (painting)
- 1947 – Douglas Annand – Mural, Messrs. Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Lidcombe.
- 1948 – Sali Herman – The Drovers (painting)
- 1949 – J. Carrington Smith – Bush Pastoral, Mural design for New State Building, Hobart
- 1950 – Harold Greenhill – Summer Holiday (painting)
- 1951 – Douglas Annand – Mural, Restaurant, R.M.S. "Oronsay"
- 1952 – Charles Doutney – Darlinghurst Road (painting)
- 1953 – Eric Smith – Convicts Berrima 1839, Mural at Old Court House, Berrima
- 1954 – Wallace Thornton – Sculptor and Model (painting)
- 1955 – Wesley Penberthy – Oriental Mural (mural design)
- 1956 – Harold Greenhill – Prawning at Night (genre painting)
- 1957 – Michael Kmit – The Voice of Silence (subject painting)
- 1958 – No Award
- 1959 – Susan Wright – The Circus (genre painting)
- 1960 – Leonard French – The Burial (subject painting)
- 1961 – Robin Norling – Sea Movement and Rocks (mural design)
- 1962 – John Rigby – Children Dancing (genre painting)
- 1963 – Roy Fluke – Spring Walk (subject painting)
- 1964 – Ken Reinhard – The Private Public Preview (genre painting)
- 1965 – Gareth Jones-Roberts – Grape-pickers and Vineyards (subject painting)
- 1966 – Louis James – It's Hot in Town (genre painting)
- 1967 – Cec Burns – Exercise in Variegation (subject painting)
- 1968 – Tim Storrier – Suzy 350 (genre painting)
- 1969 – Louis James – Spyhole (subject painting)
- 1970 – Michael Kmit – Philopena (genre painting)
- 1971 – James Meldrum – Pyramid Shelf (subject painting)
- 1972 – Peter Powditch – Sun-torso 128 (Bunch) (genre painting)
- 1973 – Eric Smith – The Painter Transmogrified and Mrs. Smith (subject painting)
- 1974 – Keith Looby – Still Life and Comfy II
- 1975 – (joint) Alan Oldfield Transvestite (for Diane Arbus)
- 1975 – (joint) Geoffrey Proud – Untitled Jane
- 1976 – Brett Whiteley – Interior with time past
- 1977 – Salvatore Zofrea- Woman's life, woman's love 3
- 1978 – Brett Whiteley – Yellow Nude
- 1979 – Salvatore Zofrea – The water trap (subject painting)
- 1980 – Brian Dunlop – The old physics building (genre painting)
- 1981 – William Delafield Cook – A French family (subject painting)
- 1982 – Salvatore Zofrea – Psalm 24 (genre)
- 1984 – Tim Storrier – The Burn
- 1986 – Wendy Sharpe – Black Sun – Morning and Night, Nigel Thomson – The State Institution
- 1987 – Marcus Beilby – Crutching the Ewes, Bob Marchant – The Grand Parade Sydney Show
- 1988 – Bob Marchant – Catching rabbits and yabbies at 5-mile dam
- 1989 – John Olsen – Don Quixote Enters the Inn
- 1990 – Robert Hollingworth – Going Away/Looking Back
- 1991/92 – Kevin Connor – Najaf (Iraq) June 1991
- 1992/93 – John Montefiore – Life Series
- 1993/94 – Noel McKenna – Boy Dressed as Batman 2 (Diptych)
- 1995 – Juli Haas – By the Banks of Her Own Lagoon
- 1996 – Aida Tomescu – Grey-to-Grey
- 1997 – Kevin Connor – The Man with itchy fingers and other figures Gare du Nord
- 1998 – Robert Jacks – Changed into a weeping willow
- 1999 – Anne Wallace – Secret Paintings
- 2000 – John Peart – Snailsnake
- 2001 – Euan Macleod – Exquisite Corpse with Fire, Highly commended: Elisabeth Cummings Harbour Light
- 2002 – Guan Wei – Gazing into deep space no. 9
- 2003 – Eric Smith – Reflection
- 2004 – Allan Mitelman – Untitled
- 2005 – Sandro Nocentini – File:SandroNocentini MySonHasTwoMothers2005.jpg#filelinks
- 2006 – Jiawei Shen – Peking treaty 1901
- 2007 – David Disher – Axis of Elvis
- 2008 – Rodney Pople – Stage fright
- 2009 – Ivan Durrant – ANZAC Day Match
- 2010 – Michael Lindeman – Paintings, prints & wall hangings
- 2011 – Peter Smeeth – The artist's fate
- 2012 – Nigel Milsom – Judo House pt 4 (Golden mud)
- 2013 – Victoria Reichelt – After (books)
- 2014 – Andrew Sullivan – T-rex (tyrant lizard king)
- 2015 – Jason Phu – I was at yum cha when in rolled the three severed heads of Buddha: fear, malice and death
- 2016 – Esther Stewart – Flatland dreaming
- 2017 – Joan Ross – Oh history, you lied to me
- 2018 – Kaylene Whiskey – Kaylene TV[3]
- 2020 – Marikit Santiago – The divine[4]
- 2021 – Georgia Spain – Getting down or falling up[5]
- 2022 – Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro – Raiko and Shuten-dōji[6]
- 2023 – Doris Bush Nungarrayi – Mamunya ngalyananyi (Monster coming)[7]
- 2024 – Naomi Kantjuriny – Minyma mamu tjuta[8]
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ a b "Major art prizes: Sir John Sulman Prize", Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
- ^ "Sir John Sulman Prize winners (1936 – )". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
- ^ "Kaylene Whiskey". Artist Profile. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ Galvin, Nick; Morris, Linda (25 September 2020). "'It only took 99 years': Vincent Namatjira wins 2020 Archibald Prize". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ "Sir John Sulman Prize finalists 2021 | Art Gallery of NSW". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ^ "Sir John Sulman Prize finalists 2022 | Art Gallery of NSW". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- ^ "Archibald Prize Sulman 2023 work: Mamunya ngalyananyi (Monster coming) by Doris Bush Nungarrayi". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
- ^ Mendelssohn, Joanna (7 June 2024). "Laura Jones wins the 2024 Archibald Prize with a portrait of Tim Winton, part of a grand artistic tradition". The Conversation. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- Art Gallery of New South Wales – Sir John Sulman Prize
- Lionel Hornibrook Jago – Sulman Prize finalist
