Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing

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Applications close
10 January 2024
Announced
24 February 2024
Prize money
AUD $27,000
Location
NSW, Australia
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This is an annual acquisitive prize for drawing.

Background

Adelaide Perry was a remarkable woman with an eventful career. She studied under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin and experienced early success by winning the National Gallery Travelling Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy in London in 1918. During her three year sojourn abroad she exhibited at the Salon in Paris and upon returning to Sydney in the late 1920s exhibited with the Society of Artists, Academy of Art and the Contemporary Group as a foundation member.

Like many women artists she remained single and thus devoted much of her time to teaching art to earn a living. In order to do this she taught at Sydney Art School with Julian Ashton, Henry Gibbons and Thea Proctor and later established her own Chelsea Art School that continued for twenty years. She was an active and productive artist exhibiting her paintings, drawings and printmaking for over forty years. Like most female artists, shewas overlooked by public galleries until the Art Gallery of NSW acquired her work in the late forties. Most state and regional galleries in Australia now have a representation of her work in their collections. Her portrait of Dame Mary Gilmore, thought of as her finest achievement in this genre hangs in the National Library, Canberra.

In 1930, on the recommendation of Roy de Maistre, Adelaide Elizabeth Perry was retained as a part-time teacher of drawing at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Sydney. This association with Art at PLC was to continue until 1962 when she retired as Art Mistress. It is most fitting therefore for PLC to honour her with the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.

Prizes

  • Winning Entry for best drawing (acquisitive) - $25,000
  • People's Choice Award - $2,000


Contact: For more information email aellis@plc.nsw.edu.au or call 02 9704 5693

Venue: Adelaide Perry Gallery, Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Sydney, Boundary Street, Croydon, NSW 2132

Summary
Application dates
2 October 2023 - 10 January 2024
Exhibition dates
24 February 2024 - 22 March 2024
Finalists notified
31 January 2024
Eligibility
National Entries
Prize frequency
Annual
Judges
Prof. Sasha Grishin AM.
Prize genre
Drawing
Location
Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney, NSW
NSW
Australia
Prizes
AUD $27,000
Fees
Entry fee is $50 with a maximum ofr two entries and the commission on sales is 20%.
Last updated
5 October 2023
Prior Winners
2023: Joshua Charadia - Winner ($25,000)
2022: Jody Graham - Winner ($25,000)
2018: Ceara Metlikovec - Winner ($25,000)
2017: Kendal Heyes - Winner ($25,000)
2016: Andrew Browne - Winner ($25,000)
2014: Joanne Morris - People's Choice ($2,000)
2014: Wendy Sharpe - Winner ($20,000)