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.
2023
2020/2021/2022
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