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.
Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford (NSW), Art-Work-Site Operation Crayweed
Geoffrey Bartlett (VIC), Embrace
Hanna Hoyne (ACT), Cosmic Trumpet and the Embracer (Cosmic Recharge Series 2009)
Norton Flavel (WA), And Another
2015
Orest Keywan (NSW), And the ship sails on (with apologies to f.f.)
Dale Miles (NSW), Parallel thinking space
Samantha Small (ACT), Stalemate Mk II
2014
Elaine Clocherty (WA), gamma gamma – storm
Jock Clutterbuck (VIC), Oceania Cartouche
Koichi Ishino (NSW), wind stone – the threshold of consciousness
2013
Lucy Humphrey (NSW), horizon
Francesca Mataraga (NSW), a to b
Paul Selwood (NSW), the museum
2012
Lou Lambert (WA), red herring
Philip Spelman (NSW), tête à tête
Tom de Munk-Kermeer (WA), luchtkasteel
2011
Alessandra Rossi (WA), comfort zone
James Rogers (WA), hokusai’s child
Marcus Tatton (TAS), the ruin
2010
David Horton (NSW), jarrett in london
Matthew Harding (VIC) , centripetal
Michael Le Grand (ACT), anaconda