The Helen Lempriere Scholarships

The Helen Lempriere Scholarships are awarded to Australian sculptors in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi. The scholarships are made possible by the Helen Lempriere Bequest created through the will of the late Keith Wood, husband of the late Australian artist Helen Lempriere and managed by Perpetual.

The Helen Lempriere Scholarships are designed to advance individual artists’ careers by enabling them to travel, study and undertake opportunities to further their artistic development. The scholarships are awarded to emerging, mid-career and senior Australian sculptors chosen by the exhibition’s curatorial panel.

For a series of in-depth interviews with a number of the recipients of the Helen Lempriere Scholarships follow the link below. Should funding allow, we look forward to interviewing more of the recipients.

   Helen Lempriere Recipient videos  


2023

  • Greg Johns (SA) – Senior Artist
  • Lucy Barker (NSW) – Mid-Career Artist
  • Siahne Rogers – Emerging Artist

2020/2021/2022

  • Emerging Artist: Jina Lee (WA)
  • Mid-Career Artist: Marina DeBris (NSW)
  • Mid-Career Artist: Andrew Townsend (NSW)
  • Senior Artist: Stephen King (NSW)
  • Senior Artist: Patricia Marrfurra McTaggart OAM (NSW)

Jina Lee, ‘Gache’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022. Photo Gareth Carr

Marina Debris, ‘Just a Drop in the Ocean’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022. Photo Charlotte Curd

Andrew Townsend & Suzie Bleach, ‘A Wounded Land’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022. Photo Henri Fanti

Stephen King, ‘Grid Study IV’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022. Photo Charlotte Curd

Patricia McTaggart Marrfurra, ‘Fish Net (Walipan)’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022. Photo Gareth Carr


2019

Nadia Odlum, ‘This Present Moment, This Moving World’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019. Photo Charlotte Curd

Louise Paramor, ‘Divine Assembly’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019. Photo Henri Fanti

Michael Snape, ‘Four’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019. Photo Clyde Yee


2018

Britt Mikkelsen, ‘Lair’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018. Photo Charlotte Curd

Kevin Draper, ‘Configuration’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018. Photo Noel McLaughlin

Hossein Valamanesh, ‘Conversations Found in Translation’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018. Photo Jessica Wyld


2017

Harrie Fasher, ‘The Last Charge’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2017. Photo Jessica Wyld

Julie Gough, ‘Murramanattya’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2017. Photo Clyde Yee

Ron Robertson-Swann OAM, ‘Delphi’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2017. Photo Jessica Wyld


2016

As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations in 2016, Perpetual, the managers of the Helen Lempriere Bequest, made possible a fourth $30,000 Helen Lempriere Scholarship for Australian artists.

Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford, ‘Art-Work-Site Operation Crayweed’, Sculpture by the Sea 2016. Photo Clyde See

Geoffrey Bartlett, ‘Embrace’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2016. Photo Jessica Wyld

Hanna Hoyne, ‘Cosmic Trumpet and Embracer (CosmicRechargeSeries)’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2016. Photo Clyde Yee.

Norton Flavel, ‘Just Another’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2016. Photo Clyde Yee


2015

Orest Keywan, And the ship sails on (with a pologies to f.f.), Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Clyde Yee

Dale Miles, ‘Parallel Thinking Space’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Clyde Yee


2014

Elaine Clocherty, ‘gamma gamma storm’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2014. Photo M Schofield

Jock Clutterbuck, ‘Oceania Cartouche’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2014. Photo Clyde Yee

Koichi Ishino, ‘Wind Stone – the Threshold of Consciousness’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2014. Photo Clyde Yee


2013

Lucy Humphrey, ‘Horizon’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013. Photo Clyde Yee

Francesca Mataraga, ‘a to b’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013. Photo Clyde Yee

Paul Selwood, ‘The Museum’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013. Photo S Burns


2012

Lou Lambert, ‘Red Herring’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2012. Photo B Winstone

Philip Spelman, ‘Tête-à-tête’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2012. Photo unknown

Tom de Munk-Kerkmeer, ‘Luchtkasteel’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2012. Photo Clyde Yee


2011

Alessandra Rossi, ‘Comfort Zone’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2011. Photo V Dalles.

James Rogers, ‘Hokusai’s Child’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2011. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marcus Tatton, ‘The Ruin’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2011. Photo Sam Burns


2010

David Horton, ‘Jarrett in London’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2010. Photo RD Souza

Matthew Harding, ‘Centripedal’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2010. Photo M Stanton

Michael Le Grand, ‘Anaconda’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2010. Photo S Burns