Blake Prize
Blake Prize for Religious Art | |
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Date | 1951 |
Country | Australia |
Hosted by |
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Reward(s) | A$35,000 |
Highlights | |
Most awards | Eric Smith (six times) |
Inaugural winner | Justin O'Brien (1951) |
Website | https://www.casulapowerhouse.com/get-involved/prizes/prizes/the-blake-art-prize ![]() |
The Blake Prize is an Australian art prize awarded for non-sectarian religious art. Since the inaugural prize in 1951, the prize was awarded annually from 1951 to 2015, and since 2016 has been awarded biennially.[1][2]
As of 2021[update], there are three prizes awarded under the name by the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre:[1]
- The Blake Prize, a non-acquisitive prize of A$35,000
- The Blake Emerging Artist Prize, an acquisitive prize of A$6,000 (formerly the John Coburn Emerging Artist Award[3])
- The Blake Established Artist Residency, a residency and solo exhibition, hosted by Casula Powerhouse
History
The prize was established in Sydney in 1949 as an incentive to raise the standard of religious art.[4] It was founded by Jewish businessman Richard Morley,[3], the Reverend Michael Scott SJ, a headmaster of Campion Hall, Point Piper, and subsequently rector of Aquinas College (a Catholic residential college for university students in North Adelaide[5]), and lawyer M. Tenison. The Blake Prize is named after the artist and poet, William Blake. The inaugural Blake Prize was awarded in 1951 to Justin O'Brien.[4]
The Blake Exhibitions have been a regular travelling exhibition around Australia, visiting various major cities and provincial galleries.[citation needed]
The award of the Blake Prize to Charles Bannon in 1954 for his Judas Iscariot was one of the most controversial in its history; this opened controversy over what constituted religious art and over "abstract expressionism" which threatened to overwhelm the exhibition.[citation needed]
In 2008 the Blake Society established the Blake Poetry Prize to link art and literature and to give Australian poets new possibilities to explore the nature of spirituality in the 21st century. The Blake Poetry Prize is presented in association with Writing NSW.[citation needed]
In 2011, Australian art historian, educator and exhibition curator Rosemary Crumlin authored a book documenting 60 years of the Blake Prize.[6]
The prize was administered by the Blake Society until 2016, when the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC) took over the prize. It now focuses on the broader spiritual arts rather than religious art.[7] The Casula Powerhouse took over the Blake Poetry Prize in the same year.[8]
Blake Prize for Human Justice
From 2009[9] until 2014, the Blake Prize for Human Justice, worth A$5,000, was sponsored by the Maritime Union of Australia.[10] The winners were:
- 2009: Dianne Coulter[11]
- 2010: Fiona White[12]
- 2011: Abdul Abdullah[13][14]
- 2012: Saif Almurayati, a former refugee[15]
- 2013: Franz Kempf AM[16]
- 2014: Hedy Ritterman[17]
List of winners
Ordinal | Year | Winner(s) | Name of work(s) | Notes | |||
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1 | 1951 | Justin O'Brien | The Virgin Enthroned | [4] | |||
2 | 1952 | Frank Hinder | Flight into Egypt | ||||
3 | 1953 | Michael Kmit | The Evangelist John Mark | ||||
4 | 1954 | Charles Bannon | Judas Iscariot | ||||
5 | 1955 | Donald Friend | St John and Scenes from the Apocalypse | ||||
6 | 1956 | Eric Smith | The Scourged Christ | ||||
7 | 1957 | Elwyn Lynn | Betrayal | ||||
8 | 1958 | Eric Smith | The Moment Christ Died | ||||
9 | 1959 | Eric Smith | Christ is Risen | ||||
10 | 1960 | John Coburn | Triptych of the Passion | ||||
11 | 1961 | Stanislaus Rapotec | Meditating on Good Friday | [4] | |||
12 | 1962 | Eric Smith | Eucharistic Landscape | ||||
13 | 1963 | Leonard French | Ancient Fragments | ||||
14 | 1964 | Michael Kitching | Last Supper-Premonition | [18] | |||
15 | 1965 | Asher Bilu | I Form Light and Create Darkness-Isaiah 45:7 | ||||
16 | 1966 | Rodney Milgate | Ascension | ||||
17 | 1967 | Desiderius Orban | Hosanna | ||||
18 | 1968 | Roger Kemp | The Cross | ||||
19 | 1969 | Eric Smith | The Assassin's Creed | ||||
20 | 1970 | Roger Kemp | Denial | ||||
Eric Smith | Christ's Flesh: Living, Suffering and Resurrected | ||||||
21 | 1971 | Desiderius Orban | Transition to Christianity | ||||
22 | 1972 | Joseph Szabo | Black Friday | ||||
23 | 1973 | Keith Looby | Your Motel Calvary Still Life Flowers | ||||
24 | 1974 | Stuart Maxwell | Christ at Emmaus | ||||
Ken Whisson | Tobias and the Angel | ||||||
25 | 1975 | Rodney Milgate | Thoughts on Holy Thursday | ||||
26 | 1976 | David Voigt | Blue Requiem | ||||
27 | 1977 | John Coburn | Hozanna | ||||
Rodney Milgate | Tree | ||||||
28 | 1978 | Noel Tunks | The First Friday Retreat | ||||
29 | 1979 | Roadside Altar Piece Comas | |||||
30 | 1980 | Leonard French | Instruments for a Drama Meditation | ||||
31 | 1981 | David Voigt | Meditation | ||||
32 | 1982 | Mary Anne Coutts | In Mockery of Christ | ||||
Suzie Marston | Sunday School Work Books | ||||||
33 | 1983 | The Offering | |||||
34 | 1984 | Mary Hall | The Spirit of God hovered brooding over the face of the waters | ||||
35 | 1985 | John Gould | Votives to Passion | ||||
36 | 1986 | Roger Akinin | The Day of Atonement, Scapegoat and Apostate | ||||
37 | 1987 | Ian Grant | The Monks Cloak | ||||
Alan Oldfield | A High and perpetual shewing of Christ's mother according to Julian of Norwich | ||||||
38 | 1988 | Lise Floistad | This sign is a hidden treasure which desires to be known | ||||
39 | 1989 | Warren Breninger | Hail Mary | ||||
40 | 1990 | Gillian Mann | The Chest | ||||
41 | 1991 | Alan Oldfield | Raft III | ||||
Rosemary Valadon | Before the Fall | ||||||
42 | 1992 | George Gittoes | Ancient Prayer | ||||
43 | 1993 | John Davis | Some Thoughts on a Miracle | ||||
44 | 1994 | Hilarie Mais | Veiling Silence | ||||
45 | 1995 | George Gittoes | The Preacher – Kibeho Massacre Series, Rwanda | ||||
46 | 1996 | Rachel Ellis | Woman at Jesus' feet | ||||
47 | 1997 | Thomas Spence | Christmas Day 1914 (God's Truce) | ||||
48 | 1998 | John Adair | One Dark Night (from St John of the Cross Poem Dark Night of the Soul) | ||||
− | 1999 | not awarded | |||||
49 | 2000 | Frances Belle Parker | The Journey | ||||
50 | 2001 | Lachlan Warner | Vitrine of lightweight (Sunyata), disposable (annica) Buddhas, in a range of festive colours, postures and mudras | ||||
51 | 2002 | Hilton McCormick | The Harvest | ||||
52 | 2003 | Shoufay Derz | Linking Back (Part 1) | ||||
53 | 2004 | AñA Wojak | Pieta (Dafur) | ||||
54 | 2005 | James Powditch | God is in the Details (Intelligent Design) | ||||
Louise Rippert | Dance | ||||||
55 | 2006 | Euan Macleod | Untitled Landscape with Figure | ||||
56 | 2007 | Shirley Purdie | Stations of the Cross | ||||
57 | 2008 | David Tucker | A Local Girl Comes Home | ||||
58 | 2009 | Angelica Mesiti | Rapture (silent anthem) | [19] | |||
59 | 2010 | Leonard Brown | If you put your ear close, you’ll hear it breathing | [20] | |||
60 | 2011 | Khaled Sabsabi | Naqshbandi Greenacre Engagement | [4] (3 channel video) | |||
61 | 2012 | Fabian Astore | The Threshold | [21] | |||
Eveline Kotai | Writing on air | ||||||
62 | 2013 | Trevor Nickolls | Metamorphosis | [22] | |||
63 | 2014 | Richard Lewer | Worse Luck I'm Still Here | [23] | |||
Changed to biennial award[24] | |||||||
64 | 2016 | Yardena Kurulkar | Kenosis 2015 | [25] | |||
65 | 2018 | Tina Havelock Stevens | Giant Rock | [26] | |||
66 | 2020 |
See also
References
- ^ a b "Call for Entries: The 67th Blake Prize". Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ Rebecca Somerville (November 2005). "Feature: Blake Prize". Contemporary. Australian Art Review. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2007.
- ^ a b "Awards". William Blake. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e McDonald, John (1 October 2011). "The 60th Blake Prize Exhibition". John McDonald. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ "Home page". Aquinas College. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ Crumlin, Rosemary (2011). The Blake book : art, religion and spirituality in Australia : celebrating 60 years of the Blake Prize. Margaret Woodward. Melbourne, Australia. ISBN 978-1-921394-51-5. OCLC 795116754.
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- ^ "Blake Art Award". Maritime Union of Australia. 26 August 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ "Blake Prize finalists announced" (PDF). 10 October 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ "Blake Prize awarded to video artwork - ABC News". ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 3 September 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ "'An enormous spiritual presence' wins Blake Prize for artist". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 September 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ Valentish, Jenny (15 January 2020). "Portrait of the artist in the firing line: Abdul Abdullah on controversy, threats and rightwing hate mail". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ Abdullah, Abdul (8 September 2015). "Combating Prejudice with Art" (Video + text). At TEDxYouth@Sydney. TedX. Retrieved 16 September 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ "2012 Blake Prize Winners Announced". Art Almanac. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ "Blake Prize for Human Justice awarded to Adelaide artist Franz Kempf". Travelling Rabbi. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ "The 63rd Blake Prize winners". UNSW. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ "Blake Prize Winner – £500 Prize To Teacher". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 October 1964. p. 4. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ "2009 Judges Comments – Blake Prize". Archived from the original on 8 September 2009.
- ^ McDonald, John (20 September 2010). "The Blake Prize". John McDonald. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ "2012 Blake Prize Winners Announced". Art Almanac. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ "2013 Blake Prize Winners". Art Almanac. 21 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ Collins, Antoinette (14 December 2014). "Artist Richard Lewer wins $25,000 Blake Prize for religious art as future of award in doubt". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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