The exciting announcement of this year’s Waverley Art Prize winners took place on Friday 23 September to coincide with the opening of the Bondi Pavilion Gallery. The exhibition will be open until 15 October and we warmly encourage you to visit and not to forget to vote for your favourite work in the People’s Choice Award.
Open Prize Winner: $15,000 acquisitive
Tonee Messiah – Accounting for Archetypes
Mayors Prize Winner: $2,000 acquisitive
Chris Bond – Maldoror
Climate and Environment Prize Winner: $1,500
Liz Shreeve – Home and Hearth
The Drawing Prize Winner: $1,000
Karen Coull – Journey to the year I became invisible
Highly Commended Works:
Open Prize: Joel Arthur – Land Escape and Jake Walker – Number #166
Mayor’s Prize: Peta West – This is Yuin Country