Blake Prize

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Blake Prize
Date1951; 75 years ago (1951)
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RewardTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:AUD35,000
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Most awardsEric Smith (six times)
Inaugural winnerJustin O'Brien (1951)
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The Blake Prize, formerly the Blake Prize for Religious Art,[1] is an Australian art prize awarded for art that explores spirituality. Since the inaugural prize in 1951, the prize was awarded annually from 1951 to 2015. Since 2016 it has been awarded biennially.[2][3]

As of 2021, the non-acquisitive prize, awarded since 2016 by the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC), is worth Template:AUD. In addition, CPAC awards the Blake Emerging Artist Prize, an acquisitive prize of Template:AUD (formerly the John Coburn Emerging Artist Award[4]), and the Blake Established Artist Residency, which includes a residency and solo exhibition hosted by CPAC.[2]

History

The prize was established in Sydney in 1949 as an incentive to raise the standard of religious art[5] and to find suitable work to decorate churches.[6] It was founded by Jewish businessman Richard Morley,[4] the Reverend Michael Scott SJ, a headmaster of Campion Hall, Point Piper, and subsequently rector of Aquinas College (a Catholic residential college for university students in North Adelaide[7]), and lawyer M. Tenison. The Blake Prize is named after the artist and poet, William Blake. The inaugural Blake Prize was awarded by the Blake Society in 1951 to Justin O'Brien.[5]

The Blake exhibitions have been a regular travelling exhibition around Australia, visiting various major cities and provincial galleries.[citation needed]

The award of the Blake Prize to Charles Bannon in 1954 for his Judas Iscariot was one of the most controversial in its history; this opened controversy over what constituted religious art and over "abstract expressionism" which threatened to overwhelm the exhibition.[citation needed]

In 2000, the prize shifted its focus from strictly religious art to an exploration of spirituality, and some of the entries proved controversial. In 2007, former prime minister John Howard and former Catholic archbishop of Sydney George Pell expressed disapproval of art works showing the Virgin Mary in a burqa, and a hologram of Christ morphing with Osama bin Laden. In 2008, The Australian's art critic Christopher Allen resigned from the judging panel over an entry by Adam Cullen showing the crucifixion of Christ.[6]

The prize was known as the Blake Prize for Religious Art until its 56th edition in 2007, and was based at the National Art School in Darlinghurst at this time.[1] For its 57th edition in 2008, it was rebranded the Blake Prize, subtitled "Exploring the spiritual and religious in art".[8]

In 2008 the Blake Society, in collaboration with the New South Wales Writers' Centre (now Writing NSW), established the Blake Poetry Prize[6] to link art and literature and to give Australian poets new possibilities to explore the nature of spirituality in the 21st century.[citation needed]

In 2011, Australian art historian, educator and exhibition curator Rosemary Crumlin authored a book documenting 60 years of the Blake Prize.[9]

In 2012, the National Art School was replaced as exhibition partner by the National Trust's S. H. Ervin Gallery in Observatory Park, in Sydney's city centre, for the 61st edition of the awards.[10][11]

In 2014 there were new commercial sponsors, and the venue partner became UNSW College of Fine Arts (now UNSW School of Art & Design).[12]

The prize was administered by the Blake Society up till and including 2015. After the 63rd edition of the prize in January, chair Rod Pattenden said that it would not be able to continue owing to lack of sponsorship,[13] suggesting that the prize was seen as "too open-minded" by religious organisations and "too religious" by secular people.[6] In July, the Casula Powerhouse Art Centre (CPAC) and Liverpool City Council announced that they would be funding and managing the prize, with the exhibition and awards moving to Casula in Western Sydney. They promised that Template:AUD would be available in perpetuity.[13]

In 2016 CPAC took over the prize for the 64th Blake Prize, and it became a biennial award.[14] It now focuses on the broader spiritual arts rather than religious art.[15] The Casula Powerhouse took over the Blake Poetry Prize in the same year.[16]

Blake Prize for Human Justice

From 2009[17] until 2014, the Blake Prize for Human Justice, worth Template:AUD, was sponsored by the Maritime Union of Australia.[18] The winners were:

Current prizes

As of 2021, there are three prizes awarded by Casula Powerhouse:[2]

  • The Blake Prize, a non-acquisitive prize of Template:AUD
  • The Blake Emerging Artist Prize, an acquisitive prize of Template:AUD (formerly the John Coburn Emerging Artist Award[4])
  • The Blake Established Artist Residency, a residency and solo exhibition, hosted by Casula Powerhouse

List of winners

Ordinal Year Winner(s) Name of work(s) Notes
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1951 Justin O'Brien The Virgin Enthroned [5]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1952 Frank Hinder Flight into Egypt In the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia[26]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1953 Michael Kmit The Evangelist John Mark
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1954 Charles Bannon Judas Iscariot
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1955 Donald Friend St John and Scenes from the Apocalypse
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1956 Eric Smith The Scourged Christ
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1957 Elwyn Lynn Betrayal
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1958 Eric Smith The Moment Christ Died
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1959 Eric Smith Christ is Risen
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1960 John Coburn Triptych of the Passion
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1961 Stanislaus Rapotec Meditating on Good Friday [5]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1962 Eric Smith Eucharistic Landscape
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1963 Leonard French Ancient Fragments
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1964 Michael Kitching Last Supper-Premonition [27]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1965 Asher Bilu I Form Light and Create Darkness-Isaiah 45:7
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1966 Rodney Milgate Ascension
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1967 Desiderius Orban Hosanna
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1968 Roger Kemp The Cross
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1969 Eric Smith The Assassin's Creed
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1970 Roger Kemp Denial
Eric Smith Christ's Flesh: Living, Suffering and Resurrected
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1971 Desiderius Orban Transition to Christianity
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1972 Joseph Szabo Black Friday
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1973 Keith Looby Your Motel Calvary Still Life Flowers
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1974 Stuart Maxwell Christ at Emmaus
Ken Whisson Tobias and the Angel
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1975 Rodney Milgate Thoughts on Holy Thursday
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1976 David Voigt Blue Requiem
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1977 John Coburn Hozanna
Rodney Milgate Tree
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1978 Noel Tunks The First Friday Retreat
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1979 Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
 Roadside Altar Piece Comas
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1980 Leonard French Instruments for a Drama Meditation
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1981 David Voigt Meditation
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1982 Mary Anne Coutts In Mockery of Christ
Suzie Marston Sunday School Work Books
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1983 Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
 The Offering
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1984 Mary Hall The Spirit of God hovered brooding over the face of the waters
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1985 John Gould Votives to Passion
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1986 Roger Akinin The Day of Atonement, Scapegoat and Apostate
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1987 Ian Grant The Monks Cloak
Alan Oldfield A High and perpetual shewing of Christ's mother according to Julian of Norwich
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1988 Lise Floistad This sign is a hidden treasure which desires to be known
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1989 Warren Breninger Hail Mary
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1990 Gillian Mann The Chest
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1991 Alan Oldfield Raft III
Rosemary Valadon Before the Fall
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1992 George Gittoes Ancient Prayer
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1993 John Davis Some Thoughts on a Miracle
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1994 Hilarie Mais Veiling Silence
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1995 George Gittoes The Preacher – Kibeho Massacre Series, Rwanda
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1996 Rachel Ellis Woman at Jesus' feet
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1997 Thomas Spence Christmas Day 1914 (God's Truce)
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1998 John Adair One Dark Night (from St John of the Cross Poem Dark Night of the Soul)
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 1999 not awarded
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2000 Frances Belle Parker The Journey
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2001 Lachlan Warner Vitrine of lightweight (Sunyata), disposable (annica) Buddhas, in a range of festive colours, postures and mudras
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2002 Hilton McCormick The Harvest
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2003 Shoufay Derz Linking Back (Part 1)
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2004 AñA Wojak Pieta (Dafur)
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2005 James Powditch God is in the Details (Intelligent Design)
Louise Rippert Dance
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2006 Euan Macleod Untitled Landscape with Figure
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2007 Shirley Purdie Stations of the Cross
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2008 David Tucker A Local Girl Comes Home
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2009 Angelica Mesiti Rapture (silent anthem) [28]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2010 Leonard Brown If you put your ear close, you’ll hear it breathing [29]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2011 Khaled Sabsabi Naqshbandi Greenacre Engagement [5] (3 channel video)
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2012 Fabian Astore The Threshold [30]
Eveline Kotai Writing on air
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2013 Trevor Nickolls Metamorphosis [31]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2014 Richard Lewer Worse Luck I'm Still Here [32]
Changed to biennial award[33]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2016 Yardena Kurulkar Kenosis 2015 [34]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2018 Tina Havelock Stevens Giant Rock [35]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2020 (2021) Leyla Stevens Kidung, a 3-channel video work Awarded 13 February 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic[36][37]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2022 SJ Norman Cicatrix [38]
Script error: No such module "Number table sorting". 2024 Shireen Taweel Shoe Bathers [39]

See also

References

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