Sir John Sulman Prize

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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[]

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[]

Source:[2]

  • 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 – – Summer Holiday (painting)
  • 1951 – Douglas Annand – Mural, Restaurant, R.M.S. "Oronsay"
  • 1952 – – Darlinghurst Road (painting)
  • 1953 – Eric Smith – Convicts Berrima 1839, Mural at Old Court House, Berrima
  • 1954 – – Sculptor and Model (painting)
  • 1955 – – Oriental Mural (mural design)
  • 1956 – – Prawning at Night (genre painting)
  • 1957 – Michael Kmit – The Voice of Silence (subject painting)
  • 1958 – No Award
  • 1959 – – The Circus (genre painting)
  • 1960 – Leonard French – The Burial (subject painting)
  • 1961 – – Sea Movement and Rocks (mural design)
  • 1962 – John Rigby – Children Dancing (genre painting)
  • 1963 – – Spring Walk (subject painting)
  • 1964 – – The Private Public Preview (genre painting)
  • 1965 – – Grape-pickers and Vineyards (subject painting)
  • 1966 – – It's Hot in Town (genre painting)
  • 1967 – – Exercise in Variegation (subject painting)
  • 1968 – Tim Storrier – Suzy 350 (genre painting)
  • 1969 – – Spyhole (subject painting)
  • 1970 – Michael Kmit – Philopena (genre painting)
  • 1971 – – Pyramid Shelf (subject painting)
  • 1972 – – 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) 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, – The Grand Parade Sydney Show
  • 1988 – – 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 – – Life Series
  • 1993/94 – – Boy Dressed as Batman 2 (Diptych)
  • 1995 – – 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 – – Gazing into deep space no. 9
  • 2003 – Eric Smith – Reflection
  • 2004 – – Untitled
  • 2005 – Sandro Nocentini –
  • 2006 – Jiawei Shen – Peking treaty 1901
  • 2007 – – Axis of Elvis
  • 2008 – Rodney Pople – Stage fright
  • 2009 – Ivan Durrant – ANZAC Day Match
  • 2010 – – Paintings, prints & wall hangings
  • 2011 – – The artist's fate
  • 2012 – Nigel Milsom – Judo House pt 4 (Golden mud)
  • 2013 – – 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 – – Flatland dreaming
  • 2017 – Joan Ross – Oh history, you lied to me
  • 2018 – Kaylene Whiskey – Kaylene TV[3]
  • 2020 – Marikit Santiago – The divine[4]

Notes and references[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Major art prizes: Sir John Sulman Prize", Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
  2. ^ "Sir John Sulman Prize winners (1936 – )". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
  3. ^ "Kaylene Whiskey". Artist Profile. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  4. ^ 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.

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