Elisabeth Cummings, Lucy Culliton and Wendy Sharpe are all previous winners of the prestigious Portia Geach Memorial Award. This year, to celebrate its 60th year, the S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, presents a selection of previous winners of the Award.
Following Portia Geach’s death in 1959, her surviving sister Kate Geach created the bequest that carries her name for an art award for Australian women artists. Held each year, the Portia Geach Memorial Award is given to a portrait of the highest artistic merit, developing profiles of Australian women artists.
Winners:
1972 – Elisabeth Cummings, Jean Appleton
1995 – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait with Students, After Adelaide Labille-Guiard
2003 – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait with Tea Cup and Burning Paintings
2006 – Lucy Culliton, Self with Friends
Location: S.H. Ervin Gallery, 158 Fitzroy St. Grafton, NSW
Exhibition dates: 31 August – 20 October 2024
Image: Elisabeth Cummings, Jean Appleton, 1972, oil on canvas, 127.7×101.5cm, Winner of Portia Geach 1972
