The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize is now a Biennial Award and will be scheduled again in 2014.
The winners of the 2012 A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize were announced at the opening and awards presentation at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery on Wednesday 5 December at 6.30pm.
Scott Breton - Major Award for a Travelling Scholarship $50,000
Scott Breton Afternoon Light 2012 Oil on panel 58 x 34 cm
Evan Shipard - A.M.E. Bale Art Prize in the medium of oil and/or acrylic for 'The Digger' $5,000
Evan ShipardThe Digger 2012Oil on linen32 x 42 cm
Gregory Alexander - A.M.E. Bale Art Prize for Works on Paper for 'Nelson Street' $5,000
Gregory AlexanderNelson Street 2012Watercolour28 x 38 cm
The Art Prize is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career) at any stage of life, who are pursuing the study and practice of traditional art and who desire to study the works of old masters. A.M.E. Bale was born in Melbourne in 1875 and studied art under Frederick McCubbin and L Bernard Hall at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne. She developed a reputation as a fine artist who distinguished herself particularly as one of Australia’s pre-eminent flower and still life painters of the early 20th Century. She established the A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize through her will to support Australian artists in perpetuity. The judging panel is comprised through the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society and provides expert assistance to the trustee, Perpetual Trustees Victoria Ltd, in judging the award, taking into consideration the implementation of both the spirit and letter of Miss Bale’s will. The 2012 A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize exhibition of finalists concluded at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Corner of Glen Eira and Hawthorn Roads, Caulfield on the 16th December 2012.
Leigh Kaplan - Major Award for a Travelling Scholarship $50,000
Leigh Kaplan The Blue Boat oil on canvas 50 x 70cm
Leigh Kaplan Still life with birds oil on canvas 55 x 90cm
Leigh Kaplan Storyteller oil on canvas 115 x 80cm
Jenny MacKay and Simon Cowell - share equally the A.M.E. Bale Art Prize in the medium of oil and/or acrylic for ‘Someday’ and ‘Wynyard Lane’ respectively $5,000
Simon Cowell Wynyard Lane oil on board 30.5 x 40cm
Jenny Mackay Someday oil on canvas 36 x 28cm
Philip Cooper – A.M.E. Bale Art Prize for Works on Paper for ‘Seated Figure’ $5,000