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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 prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established female artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia.
We are excited to announce a new third category for the Art Prize, the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize.
The three prize categories are the Professional Artist Prize of $35,000, the Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000 and the Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000.
Artwork judging is overseen by Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize Patron and acclaimed artist, Jennifer Turpin. Join us as we celebrate the finest female talent in Australia.
Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2020 Important Update
Thank you to all artists who entered the 2020 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.
Finalists will be announced on 16 April and an online Catalogue of the 2020 finalists will be available on our website later in May.
The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize Opening Night and announcement of winners on 29 May and Exhibition of Finalists (30 May to 14 June) have been postponed due to the COVID-19 health regulations.
We thank you for your support. We will continue to review the situation closely and keep you updated when it is possible to advise new dates for these much anticipated events.
Congratulations 2020 Finalists
Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Professional
| First Name | Surname | Artwork |
|---|---|---|
| Samara | Adamson-Pinczewski | Tondo 3 |
| Kate | Baker | Sublimate #2 |
| Frances | Barrett | Handle |
| Julie | Bartholomew | Anthropogenic Scrolls |
| Lee | Bethel | Spreading wide my narrow hands to gather Paradise. |
| Michelle | Cawthorn | Dirty Denim |
| Barbara | Cleveland | This is a stained glass window |
| Maryanne | Coutts | A Year of Tree |
| Vicki | Cullinan | Munga Ilkari (The Night Sky) |
| Tamara | Dean | Solastalgia |
| Kate | Dorrough | Relics of Industry |
| Susie | Dureau | Gap |
| Agneta | Ekholm | Mantle |
| Merran | Esson | Stillness |
| Harrie | Fasher | History in the field / The Western Front |
| Betina | Fauvel-Ogden | Studying Solomon at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery |
| Carolina | Furque | Tomb, Hue Vietnam 2016 |
| Jane | Giblin | Nell Willis (Gavin) |
| Susan | Gourley | Tools for Regeneration |
| Leila | Jeffreys | Nature is not a place to visit, it is home. |
| Bonnie | Larden | Lazy Girafternoon |
| Catherine | Large | Imperfect perfection, Still Life with 3 Bowls |
| Camilla | Loveridge | BLIGHT WITH BEAUTY 4 |
| Genevieve | Loy | Bush Turkey Tracks |
| Janet | Luxton | Suffolk Sheep |
| camie | lyons | To Dissociate |
| Donna | Marcus | Metro |
| Kerry | McInnis | Cloudy Day, Whiskers Creek |
| Celia | Morgan | Some scratchings and shadings posing as a landscape, attempting not to be, and failing (terra plumbagocardiogramma) |
| Betty | Muffler | Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country) |
| Patsy | Mudgedell | Bush Tucker Fusion |
| Eileen | Napaltjarri | Tjiturrulpa |
| Catherine | Nelson | Cartago |
| Catherine | Odonnell | Union Street Window #3 |
| Jan | Palethorpe | Legacy |
| Pamela | Pauline | On The Brink |
| Amanda | Penrosehart | Murrumbateman dust storm |
| Jenny | Pollak | mark |
| Alice | Pulvers | Portrait of My Sister, Lucy |
| Zorica | purlija | Girl, girl to woman |
| Lyn | Raymer | What Was..(Shatin series) |
| Victoria | Reichelt | Australian Landscape (smiley) 4 |
| Angela | Robertson-Buchanan | High Density Living |
| Tracey | Schramm | The Poultry Yard - Celebrity Birds |
| Liz | Shreeve | The Persistence of Blue |
| Andrea | Sinclair | Great Catch |
| Chi-ling | Tabart | There's plenty of fish in the sea |
| Hiromi | Tango | Bleached Genes (Fuji) â Uncover my soul (2018) |
| Lisa | Tomasetti | The light that is theirs |
| Lucy | Vader | Gently does it |
| Rosemary | Valadon | Table of Broken Things |
| Patricia | Van Lubeck | The inaccessible one |
| Kaylene Leonie Vicki Betty | Whiskey Cullinan Cullinan Muffler | Kungka Kunpu (Strong Women) - Iwantja Young Women’s Film Project |
| Judith | White | Ash On Water |
| Sandra | Williams | Searching for Home |
| Bronwyn | Woodley Graham | Easy Trail |
| Linda | Zucco | Moving Still |
| Vera | Zulumovski | New Bloom |
Emerging
| First Name | Surname | Artwork |
|---|---|---|
| Linda | (Hunter) Blackburn | Delicate Rose |
| Kate | Butler | Solastalgia |
| Susannah | Coleman-Brown | Nidum (nest) |
| carolyn | craig | Left Behind in Lithgow |
| Ellen | Dahl | At the Edge of Place |
| Sophie | Dalgleish | Misty morning in Kangaroo valley |
| Lou | Derry | The welcome storm |
| Sarah | Eddowes | Apparition |
| Amanda | Fuller | Pathway of Light and Reflection |
| Jane | Gerrish | Homage to Sonia Delaunay |
| Lisa | Giles | Untitled |
| Eliza | Gosse | He Watched Cars Passing By Beyond The Cracks In The Curtains |
| Barbara | Gray | First Light, Coledale Beach |
| Elaine | Green | Twilight's Breath |
| Sue | Grose-Hodge | Pencil on paper |
| Danielle | Guyot | Watagan Balga - Relic From a Forgotten World |
| Amanda | Harrison | The Disruptor |
| Michelle | Henry | Any moment might be our last |
| Theresa | Hunt | January 20 |
| Ebony | Hyde | Ritual |
| polly lyn | kimmorley | darling in drought |
| Starry (Juxein) | Kong | It's still Dark, but sometimes I see the Stars |
| Sue | MacLeod-Beere | Old school, new school |
| Julie | McCurry | Meander River, Deloraine |
| Sharon | McIlwain | Burns Point Ferry, Ballina |
| Anna | Nordstrom | In Transition |
| Nadege | Philippe-Janon | Across time and tides |
| Gemma | Rasdall | Huon Reflections |
| Yvonne | Raulston | Are we really alone . . . |
| Gwen | Robson | The Gardener |
| Melinda | Rodnight | Come back down to Earth |
| Julia | Sirianni | A Place to Hide |
| Colleen | Stapleton | Unmasked |
| Jennifer | Tarry-Smith | Sophia |
| Michelle | Thompson | Spider Web |
| Claire | Tozer | Terrain |
| Kate | Vella | Sweet daphne at breakfast |
| Sarah | Wallace-Smith | Notice to vacate |
| Debbey | Watson | Conversations |
| Peta | West | Aragunnu, Mimosa National Park |
Indigenous Emerging
| First Name | Surname | Artwork |
|---|---|---|
| Louise | Daniels | Death Certificate 1847 |
| Sianlee | Harris | Nhuungku parlayi |
| Ethel Narelle | Holland | Brother & Sister Story |
| Jenna | Lee | adornment of the abhorrent |
| Langaliki | Lewis | Ngayuku Ngura (My Country) |
| Lynette | Lewis | Tali Womikata |
| Jacqueline Phillipus | Napurulla | Kalipinypa |
| Venessa | Possum | badu biyani (water healing) |