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Blake Prize for Religious Art
DescriptionEngages contemporary artists, both nationally and internationally, in conversations concerning faith, spirituality, religion, hope, humanity, social justice, belief and non–belief. The Blake Prize presents an aesthetic means of exploring the wider experience of spirituality and all this may entail through the visionary imagining of contemporary artists.
Date1951; 73 years ago (1951)
CountryAustralia
Hosted by
Reward(s)A$35,000
Highlights
Most awardsEric Smith (six times)
Inaugural winnerJustin O'Brien (1951)
Websitehttps://www.casulapowerhouse.com/get-involved/prizes/prizes/the-blake-art-prize Edit this on Wikidata

The Blake Prize is an Australian art prize awarded for religious art; in existence since 1951. The Prize was awarded annually from 1951 to 2015, and from 2016 has been awarded biennially.[1][2]

The prize was established in Sydney in 1949 as an incentive to raise the standard of religious art. It was founded by R. Morley, the Reverend Michael Scott SJ, a Headmaster of Campion Hall, Point Piper, and subsequently Rector of Aquinas College, University of Adelaide, 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.[3]

The Blake Exhibitions have been a regular travelling exhibition around Australia, visiting various major cities and provincial galleries.

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.

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.

The prize was administered by the Blake Society, in 2016 the Casula Powerhouse arts centre took over the prize now focuses on the broader spiritual arts rather than religious art.[4] Casula Powerhouse also administer the Blake Poetry Prize.

List of winners

Ordinal Year Winner(s) Name of work(s) Notes
1 1951 Justin O'Brien The Virgin Enthroned [3]
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 [3]
12 1962 Eric Smith Eucharistic Landscape
13 1963 Leonard French Ancient Fragments
14 1964 Michael Kitching Last Supper-Premonition [5]
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
  • Eric Smith
  • Denial
  • 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
  • Christ at Emmaus
  • Tobias and the Angel
25 1975 Rodney Milgate Thoughts on Holy Thursday
26 1976 David Voigt Blue Requiem
27 1977
  • John Coburn
  • Rodney Milgate
  • Hozanna
  • 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
  • In Mockery of Christ
  • 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
  • The Monks Cloak
  • 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
  • Raft III
  • 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
  • God is in the Details (Intelligent Design)
  • 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) [6]
59 2010 Leonard Brown If you put your ear close, you’ll hear it breathing [7]
60 2011 Khaled Sabsabi Naqshbandi Greenacre Engagement [3] (3 channel video)
61 2012
  • The Threshold
  • Writing on air
 [8]
62 2013 Trevor Nickolls Metamorphosis [9]
63 2014 Richard Lewer Worse Luck I'm Still Here [10]
Changed to biennial award[1]
64 2016 Yardena Kurulkar Kenosis 2015 [11]
65 2018 Tina Havelock Stevens Giant Rock [12]
66 2020

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Blake Prize". Casula Powerhouse. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  2. ^ Rebecca Somerville (November 2005). "Feature: Blake Prize". Contemporary. Australian Art Review. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2007.
  3. ^ a b c d McDonald, John (1 October 2011). "The 60th Blake Prize Exhibition". John McDonald. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  4. ^ Centre, Casula Powerhouse Arts (1 January 2003). "The 64th Blake Prize". casulapowerhouse.com. Archived from the original on 26 October 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Blake Prize Winner – £500 Prize To Teacher". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 October 1964. p. 4. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  6. ^ "2009 Judges Comments – Blake Prize". Archived from the original on 8 September 2009.
  7. ^ McDonald, John (20 September 2010). "The Blake Prize". John McDonald. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  8. ^ "2012 Blake Prize Winners Announced". Art Almanac. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  9. ^ "2013 Blake Prize Winners". Art Almanac. 21 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Pitt, Helen (12 February 2016). "Artist Yardena Kurulkar named Blake Prize 2016 winner". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  12. ^ McDonald, John (1 June 2018). "The Blake Prize 2018: Missing the mysterium tremendum". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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