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.

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’

Marina Debris, ‘Just a Drop in the Ocean’

Andrew Townsend, ‘A Wounded Land’

Stephen King, ‘Grid Study IV’

Patricia McTaggart Marrfurra, ‘Fish Net (Walipan)’

2019

Nadia Odlum (NSW), This Present Moment This Moving World

Louise Paramor (VIC), Divine Assembly

Michael Snape (NSW), Four

2018

Britt Mikkelsen (WA), Lair

Kevin Draper (WA), Configuration

Hossein Valamanesh (Iran, SA), Conversations

2017

Harrie Fasher (NSW), The Last Charge

Julie Gough (TAS), Murramanattya

Ron Robertson-Swann OAM, Delphi

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.