2021 Art Prize winners from left, Professional Artist winner Caroline Rothwell ‘Vault’, Emerging Artist winner, Symone Male ‘Contagious’, and Indigenous Emerging Artist winner Imelda Wood Melamurrk ‘My Sister’s Birth on a Full Moon’.
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Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Advancing Art and Opportunity
Australian Art – Any Medium – All Women
The Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia.
There are three prize categories – the Professional Artist Prize of $35,000, the Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000 and the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000.
Artists are asked to enter an artwork that best reflects their art practice - there is is no theme.
Artwork judging is overseen by Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize Patron and acclaimed artist, Jennifer Turpin. Join us as we celebrate the finest women talent in Australia.
2021 Ravenswood Australian
Women’s Art Prize
Opening Night – 14 May 2021
Due to NSW Health’s extended COVID-19 restrictions, the Opening Night was a virtual event with a live stream of the official proceedings.
- Opening Night: Announcement of winners
Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2021 Professional Artist winner Caroline Rothwell with her winning artwork, ‘Vault’
The Opening Night of the 2021 Art Prize
Minister Paul Fletcher MP, Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts and Federal Member for Bradfield congratulates 2021 Professional Artist winner Caroline Rothwell.
Virtual Tour of Exhibition of Finalists
We are very disappointed the Opening Night cannot proceed as we had hoped. Any tickets purchased to the Opening Night will be refunded. We appreciate your ongoing support.
Congratulations to the 2021 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize Winners
Professional Artist Winner
Caroline Rothwell – Vault
Emerging Artist Winner
Symone Male - Contagious
Indigenous Emerging Artist Winner
Imelda Wood Melamurrk - My Sister's Birth On A Full Moon
2021 Highly Commended Recipients
Professional Artist category
Leila Jeffreys - The wound is the place where the light enters - Bleeding heart dove
Emily Parsons-Lord - Standing Still (with practice, one may learn to accept the feelings of groundlessness)
Andrea Wilson - Forebears
Emerging Artist category
Brittany Jones - Saudade
Belle Raine - 2
Jessica Vincenza - While Away, My Home Lost Colour and Sound
Indigenous Emerging Artist category
Cynthia Burke - Landscape
Louise Daniels - Fallen
2021 People's Choice Award
Leila Jeffreys has won the inaugural Peoples' Choice Award for her artwork. The wound is the place where the light enters - Bleeding heart dove.
2021 Finalists
Professional
| First Name | Surname | Artwork |
|---|---|---|
| Maree | Azzopardi | Gently set your burden down #1 |
| Kate | Banazi | Safe Keeping |
| Sue | Beyer | Untitled 20, The Australian Scapegoat, after Arthur Boyd |
| Chris | Byrnes | Erode 1 |
| Barbara | Campbell-Allen | Snow Flurries II & III |
| Michelle | Cawthorn | Interloper |
| Georgina | Cue | Orpheus |
| Samantha | Dennison | Quieter, Still |
| Shoufay | Derz | In the beginning |
| Adrienne | Doig | Scene 8 |
| Susie | Dureau | Storm Song, Verse 1 |
| Helen | Earl | Time Spent |
| Helen Kocis | Edwards | Skater girl, bilby and the winged lion |
| Kathy | Ellem | It's all about the lead |
| Nicole | Ellis | Erasure 5 |
| Kylie | Fogarty | Barton Estate Vista |
| Kym | Frame | Endure |
| Elaine | Green | Melting |
| Camille | Hannah | Achille et Briseis |
| Nadia | Hernández | Entre todo, la gloria y la paz (Among everything, glory and peace) |
| Naomi | Hobson | Adolescent Wonderland |
| Leila | Jeffreys | The wound is the place where the light enters - Bleeding heart dove |
| Madeleine | Kelly | Stair Ghost |
| Lisa | Lee | ISO need To Fly This Coop |
| Donna | Lougher | Eye in the Sky |
| Jennifer Kemarre | Martiniello | Bush Flowers Bicornual Basket: Hakea |
| Tara | Marynowsky | Motion Picture (2020) |
| Abbey | McCulloch | Wonderland |
| Sanné | Mestrom | The Offering |
| Jennifer | Mills | Modern Olympia |
| Emily | Parsons-Lord | Standing Still (with practice, one may learn to accept the feelings of groundlessness) |
| Pamela | Pauline | Hopeful Honeyeaters |
| Melitta | Perry | Telling the Bees (Secrets and White Lies) |
| Izabela | Pluta | UNTITLED #2 (STAIR) |
| Charmaine | Pwerle | Awelye |
| Genevieve Felix | Reynolds | Composition with colossus and chair [Stone bull: Iran, 518-460 BCE. Chair: Eero Saarinen, 1955] |
| Angela | Robertson-Buchanan | Tawny Frogmouth Siblings |
| Monica | Rohan | Tug |
| Caroline | Rothwell | Vault |
| Sally | Ryan | We Need to Talk |
| Kathryn | Ryan | Corner Paddock |
| Nuha | Saad | Ornamental Fancies III |
| Dee | Smart | Leap of Faith 2020 |
| Diana Baker | Smith | The Lost Hour (2021) |
| Anne | Starling | Nuclear Family |
| Tina Havelock | Stevens | Holus Bolus |
| Julie | Stirling | From There to Where |
| Jacqui | Stockdale | The Seer |
| Julie | Sundberg | Goolay'yari Triptych |
| Lucy | Vader | There's only one sky and it's all for you |
| Katie | Vajda | The Body Domestic - Plastic |
| VKM | No Void | |
| Jenny | Watson | Pink Poppy Sixties Fun Girl (2021) |
| Barbara | Weir | Sunrise |
| Andrea | Wilson | Forebears |
| Caroline | Zilinsky | Space Odyssey |
Emerging
| First Name | Surname | Artwork |
|---|---|---|
| Jane-Louise | Anderson | Victoria and Vivienne |
| Elaine | Batton | Veiled Decline |
| Penny | Burnett | A Chart Stripped Bare- freedom in restraint |
| Katrina | Crook | The Hill We Climb |
| Anna Maria Antoinette | D'Addario | Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light |
| Sophie | Dalgleish | New Beginning |
| Nikki | Easterbrook | Birds of a Feather |
| Annalisa | Ferraris | A pool fit for Mies van der Rohe |
| Amanda | Galbraith | Fern and Nancy feeling fancy |
| Angie | Goto | My Body My Home |
| Tracy | Greenstone | Linen |
| Gail | Hocking | Lifting the Skirt - Ngangkiparingga |
| Theresa | Hunt | Affinity |
| Brittany | Jones | Saudade |
| Gillian | Kayrooz | Argileh at Wedding Cake Rock |
| Jess | Leonard | Grounded |
| Christina | Lowry | Remember to Live |
| Christina | MacDonald | Sacred Treasures |
| Symone | Male | Contagious |
| Kathleen | Mason | Self Portrait at 80 |
| Kate | Nielsen | Winter Morning, Salamanca |
| Linda | Olstein | Autumn Concerto |
| Belle | Raine | 2 |
| Catherine | Sim | The Gloaming |
| Elwira | Skowronska | Lambda_2 |
| Linda | Sok | Corporeal/Spiritual |
| Lisa | Sorgini | Hana, Bobby and Mika in the Loungeroom |
| Lilli | Stromland | Bernina Verso |
| Jane Burton | Taylor | Court House Wallpaper A/P |
| Rachel | Theodorakis | Shrine of Edification |
| Nicole | Vandersteegen | Self Contained |
| Kate | Vassallo | Gum 1 & 2 |
| Jessica | Vincenza | While Away, My Home Lost Colour and Sound |
| Lilli | Waters | Last Days |
| Salwa | Woodroffe | Approaching Storm-Kangaroo Valley |
| Nerida | Woolley | Little Dam at Legume |
| Sorcha | Yelland | Anthropocentric Asphyxia |
| Aliki | Yiorkas | Lock Door, Building 27, National Art School. |
| Leslie | Zhang | Solo No.1 |
Indigenous Emerging
| First Name | Surname | Artwork |
|---|---|---|
| Cynthia | Burke | Landscape |
| Selma | Coulthard | Ration Day at Urrampinyi/ Tempe Downs, NT |
| Louise | Daniels | Fallen |
| Simone | Griffin | Lambo |
| Imelda Wood | Melamurrk | My Sister's Birth On A Full Moon |
| Dulcie | Nanala | Karlyapilyirra |
| Tulli | Stevens | Nyagunyjirram (Sundown) |