Emerging Artist Award

The City of South Perth's Emerging Artist Award provides upcoming artists and arts students with the opportunity to exhibit their work to the wider community, as well as a chance to share in a total prize pool of $11,150 provided by the City of South Perth and our generous sponsors.

In 2020, the City of South Perth’s annual Emerging Artist Award Exhibition was open to the public from Friday 16 October until Saturday 24 October 2020 in the South Perth Community Hall.

The Exhibition provides a great opportunity for community members and visiting art lovers to see new works by talented emerging artists. You can vote for your favourite piece to win the People’s Choice Award or purchase an artwork for your personal collection.

News Listings

November 2020

Emerging Artist People's Choice Winner

Media Release 4 November 2020

Congratulations to Paris Wilkinson, the winner of the 2020 Emerging Artist - Soco Realty People’s Choice Award, for her oil painting titled ‘Grandad Ted’.

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October 2020

Celebrating our emerging artists

Media Release 16 October 2020

Emerging artists are once again being celebrated through the City’s Emerging Artist Awards, which were held on Thursday 15 October at the South Perth Community Hall.

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September 2020

Emerging Artist Exhibition opens in October

News Update 29 September 2020

Celebrating its eighteenth year, the 2020 Emerging Artist Award exhibition will be open to the public from Friday 16 October until Saturday 24 October 2020.

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August 2020

Are you an Emerging Artist?

Media Release 11 August 2020

Entries are now open for this year’s Emerging Artist Award. Celebrating its 18th year, the event is open to all artists, who live in Western Australia.

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July 2020

Are you an emerging artist?

Media Release 14 July 2020

The Emerging Artist Awards provide upcoming artists with the opportunity to exhibit their work to the wider community,

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Entries have now closed for the 2020 award.

EAA Terms and Conditions 2020 [ pdf - 1 MB ]

2020 Award Categories

Artists were required to nominate which Award category they wish their artwork to be considered for. Artworks will not be considered for any Award category which the artist have not clearly nominated.

Where there is any question about the eligibility of an entry for any nominated award category, artists will be contacted for more information, and the City will then determine eligibility with reference to the following:

$4,000 City of South Perth | Open Award

All works entered into the City of South Perth’s 2019 Emerging Artist Award are eligible to be considered for this award.

$750 Karalee on Preston | Local Theme Award

Any work depicting, in title or content, the City of South Perth’s natural or built environment, lifestyle, personalities and landmarks.

$750 Preston Street IGA | Youth Award

Works entered by secondary school students or artists up to 25 years of age at the date of entry will be eligible.

$750 Liquor Barons on Angelo | 3D Sculpture/Textiles Award

All three dimensional works, and creative textile-based works.

$750 White Frame | Painting Award

Painted works in oils, acrylics, watercolour, pastels and 2D mixed media works on canvas or board.

$750 John McGrath MLA | City of South Perth Resident Award

All works entered by artists living in the City of South Perth (suburbs: South Perth, Kensington, Como, Manning, Salter Point, Karawara and Waterford)

$750 City of South Perth | Works on Paper Award

Works on paper including prints, photography, drawings, collage and 2D mixed media works on paper.

$750 City of South Perth | Aboriginal Art Award

Works entered by artists identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders will be eligible to be considered by the judges for this award.

$500 Soco Realty | People’s Choice Award

All exhibited works are eligible for this award. This award will be presented to the work that receives the greatest number of votes from exhibition visitors by the close of the exhibition period, and will be announced via the City’s Website and other channels on Tuesday 3 November 2020. The People’s Choice winning artwork will be reproduced and pasted up as large scale image in the undercroft carpark at Coles Supermarkets at Angelo Street, alongside previous winners.

The City of South Perth’s Emerging Artist Awards are intended to provide a unique opportunity for Western Australian residents who are young artists and artists at the beginning of their professional creative careers to exhibit their work in a public exhibition and to compete with non-professional peers for prizes.

For the purposes of the Emerging Artist Awards, the City of South Perth employs following eligibility criteria for emerging artists:

a. All artists who are aged 25 years and under, and enter the Emerging Artist Awards as a Youth entrant are eligible.

b. All artists who are currently enrolled in studies towards a tertiary qualification in visual or fine arts are eligible.

c. All artists who have completed a tertiary qualification in visual or fine arts since 2015 are eligible.

d. All artists who can demonstrate that they are in the first five years of their professional practice as artists are eligible.

For all other artists the following eligibility criteria apply:

e. Artists who have not exhibited their work in a commercial* or public+ gallery (excluding exhibitions specifically for students or young and emerging artists) are eligible.

f. Artists who have not received awards, grants (including residences) or commissions for their artwork or art practice (excluding those specifically for students or young and emerging artists) are eligible.

g. Artists whose work has not been acquired for one or more public, institutional, corporate or significant private collections^ are eligible.

h. Artists who do not earn 50% or more of their income from the sale of artworks, or on the basis of their recognised expertise as an artist (eg as an academic, teacher, workshop facilitator etc) are eligible.

Artists may contact the City of South Perth to discuss their eligibility if there are any queries about these criteria.

Where required, the City will make a determination on eligibility with reference to reliable, publicly available information and the information supplied by entrants, and the City’s determination will be final.

Definitions

Commercial Gallery – for this purpose a commercial gallery is defined as any bricks-and-mortar or online business that represents and sells the work of artists. (Excluding: online shops owned and managed by artists exclusively to sell their own work; and exhibitions in which the gallery space was rented by the artist).

+ Public Gallery – for this purpose a public gallery is defined as gallery or museum, whether privately or publicly owned, that holds public exhibitions of artworks, but is not primarily in the business of selling art. (Excludes exhibitions in which the gallery space was rented by the artist).

^ Collections – significant collections include (but are not limited to) those of government organisa-tions, museums, art galleries, hospitals, universities, churches, and large corporate (eg banks and mining companies) and private collections with an established public profile.

Photos of Emerging Artist Award winners were published on the City's Facebook and in the image gallery below.

To request a copy of any of the award photos, please contact the City's events team on 9474 0777 or email events@southperth.wa.gov.au.

Open Award | City of South Perth
Marla Bishop, Emerge

City of South Perth Resident Award | John McGrath MLA
Jorge Marino Brito, State of Mind: I Need a Barber!

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Zhi Xin Gan, Untitled

Local Theme Award | Karalee on Preston
Cindy Addison, Anthropo(s)cenic 2020 - South Perth Playground

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Zainub Khan, Barriers and invisible connections

Youth Award | Preston Street IGA
Georgia Appleby, Identity

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Paris Wilkinson, Grandad Ted

Works on Paper | City of South Perth
Rachel Hill, Recovery Warrior 01

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Mitchell Page, PRIDE

3D Sculpture/Textiles Award | Liquor Barons on Angelo
Sam Hopkins, Leave No Trace

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Clair Shenton, GloveBox

Aboriginal Artist Award | City of South Perth
No Aboriginal Artist Award is being awarded this year, no eligible entrants were selected as finalists.

Painting Award | White Frame
Casey Thornton, Small Comforts

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Luke Morgan, Isolation

People’s Choice Award | Soco Realty
Paris Wilkinson, Grandad Ted

City of South Perth | Open Award
Annette Peterson, Glad I Didn’t Walk

Karalee on Preston | Local Theme Award
Rozanna Johnson, Remnant

Preston Street IGA | Youth Award
Flynn Mallard, Yawarda Nyumbi (Kangaroo Dance)

John McGrath MLA | City of South Perth Resident Award
Clara Tai, Glory

White Frame | Painting Award
Kym Cranswick, Gothic Still-Life

Liquor Barons on Angelo | Works on Paper Award
Benjamin Bannan, Dodd Street Cottage

Curtin University | 3D Sculpture/Textiles Award
Rudolf Kaytar, Recycle-Reduce-Reuse

Curtin University | Aboriginal Artist Award
Colin Bradley Riley, Dilert

WA Natural Resource Management Program | Photography Award
Neil Wallace, Transition

Soco Realty | People’s Choice Award
Chris Goldberg, Mixed Bag

City of South Perth | Open Award
Cameron Richards, Miss Priya Premkumar

Karalee on Preston | Local Theme Award
Zainub Khan, Built Within

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Jacqueline Rolston, Untitled

Preston Street IGA | Youth Award
Luka Buchanan, And Sometimes I Just Sit

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Olivia Biasin, Collecting, Sharpening and Organising Every Pencil I Own

Liquor Barons on Angelo | Works on Paper Award
David Atkins, The Gorge

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Marla Bishop, Trans-formation

White Frame | Painting Award
Bee Khaw, Reflection

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Kellie Orr, Amour-Propre

Curtin University | 3D Sculpture/Textiles Award
Greg Molloy, Dancing Beasts

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Nicole Francois, Unself: Sewn, Paper, Ink

Curtin University | Aboriginal Artist Award
Rory Charles, Wandjina Dreaming

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Kiya Watt, Wagual

John McGrath MLA | City of South Perth Resident Award
Sam Hopkins, In the Midst of Chaos

HIGHLY COMMENDED
John Kik, John Kik

Soco Realty | People’s Choice Award
Cameron Richards, Miss Priya Premkumar

2016 City of South Perth Open Award
Beverley Iles, Stack

Liquor Barons on Angelo Local Theme Award
Melissa Lui Yuen, The Earth Laughs in Flowers

John McGrath MLA Young Artist Award
Tom Ansell, Searching

Como IGA Secondary School Student Award
Maggie Ziatis, Fighting Fish

White Frame Local Artist Award
Myra Mitchell, Tides of September

Soco Realty People’s Choice Award
Chris Goldberg, Music Man

Judges also awarded five High Commendations:

Highly Commended | Local Artist Award
Jillian Kurz, Float

Highly Commended | Local Theme Award
Kelwin Wong, Cygnet Theatre, Como

Highly Commended | Young Artist Award
Rachelle Dusting, Through My Eyes – A Portrait of Liza Harvey

Highly Commended | Secondary School Student Award
Takeo Kameoka, Self Portait

Highly Commended | Emerging Artist Open Award
Bec Inwood, Constructing Self

City of South Perth | Open Award
Matt Brown, The Telepon Boxes

Karalee on Preston | Local Theme Award
Wade Taylor, Foreshore-Prelude

Preston Street IGA | Youth Award
Ali Watson, Bored

John McGrath MLA | City of South Perth Resident Award
Robi Szalay, Sensory Release

White Frame | Painting Award (new)
Annie Huang, Sunshower

Liquor Barons on Angelo | Works on Paper Award (new)
Sam Bloor, Slide of Hand

City of South Perth | 3D Sculpture/Textiles Award (new)
Benjamin Bannan, Transposed (Iron)

Soco Realty | People’s Choice Award
Kelly Muller, Wattle Work

Highly commended:

Highly Commended | Local Theme Award
Hock Hong Choo, 5/27 South Tce

Highly Commended | Youth Award
Izabella Kitching, Charcoal Figure

Highly Commended | City of South Perth Resident Award
Myra Mitchell, The New World

Highly Commended | Painting Award
Rachel Whiteman, Wirriya Dreaming

Highly Commended | Works on Paper Award
Tessa Beale, Shadow Study North Wing I & II

Highly Commended | 3D Sculpture/Textiles Award
Bert Floss, The Vanishing

$4,000 City of South Perth | Emerging Artist Acquisitive Award
Taylor Denning, Self Portrait Dyptich

$500 Liquor Barons on Angelo | Local Theme Award
Ellen Norrish, Letters from Steve

$500 John McGrath MLA | Young Artist Award
Lydia Tretheway, Passing the Invisible

$500 Como IGA | Secondary School Student Award
Gerard Standing, Lukey

$500 White Frame | Local Artist Award
Liam Dee, Ibis Catcher

$500 Brierty | Aboriginal Artist Award
Kaye White, Lightning Flashes

$500 Soco Realty | People’s Choice Award
Kirsty Mouttet, Four Paws

Judges also awarded five High Commendations:

Highly Commended | Emerging Artist Acquisitive Award
Liliana Stafford, Still Life

Highly Commended | Local Theme Award
Kate Floyd, Native Inspiration

Highly Commended | Secondary School Student Award

Abby Marshall, Aussie Boy Blue

Highly Commended | Local Artist Award

Peter Beresford-Long, Green Waste - Keeping the Flame Alive

Highly Commended | Aboriginal Artist Award

Glenn Shaw, Colours of my Country

$4,000 City of South Perth | Emerging Artist Acquisitive Award
Matthew McAlpine, The Dark Heart of the Land

$500 Liquor Barons on Angelo | Local Theme Award
Michael Evans, Light under the Narrows

$500 John McGrath MLA | Young Artist Award
Emma Itzstein, A Still Encounter

$500 Como IGA | Secondary School Student Award
Elizabeth Jane Brown, Cityblock

$500 White Frame | Local Artist Award
Cally Jarlett, Save Me Please!

$500 Brierty | Aboriginal Artist Award
Nola Bolton, Golden Sunset

$500 Soco Realty | People’s Choice Award
Michael Evans, Light under the Narrows

$4,000 City of South Perth Emerging Artist Acquisitive Award Winner
Steve Dyer, Incidental Landscape

$500 Liquor Barons on Angelo Best Work on a Local Theme Award Winner
Anne Gee, Heart of South Perth

$500 White Frame Best Local Artist Award Winner
Ben Reynolds, The Corner Deli

$500 John McGrath MLA Young Artist Award Winner
Johanna Richardson, Black and White Portrait 3

$500 Como IGA Secondary School Student Award Winner
Nicholas Gumulya, Perjalanan Ke Depan

$500 Brierty Aboriginal Artist Award Winner
Karen Winmar, Djinda Midaring

Highly Commended Awards

Celia Clare, Devoured
Iain Dean, Untitled (GSRL)

2012 City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award Winner
($4,000 Acquisitive Prize)
Tessa McOnie, Caleb

Liquor Barons on Angelo Best Work on a Local Theme Award Winner
Hannah Farleigh, South Perth Bowling Club

John McGrath MLA Young Artist Award Winner
Imogen Kotsoglo, Up in the Air

Como IGA Secondary School Student Award Winner
Rakeem Pickett, Dancing our Stories

Real Return Realty Best Local Artist Award Winner
Jean-Louis Diaz, Paris Respite

Highly Commended Awards
Christie Anderson, Calling from Piccadilly

Highly Commended

Highly Commended - Secondary School Student Award
Emma Itzstein, Medicating for CMY Personality Disorder

Highly Commended - Young Artist Award
Brendan O'Leary, Calm Bitch

Highly Commended - Emerging Artist Award
Jennifer Sadler, Flow

2020 Judges

The City of South Perth is delighted to have the expertise of four experienced local arts professionals assisting with selecting works for exhibition, selecting category prize winners and curating the exhibition.

The 2020 Emerging Artist Award judges are:

Ron Bradfield Jnr – Artist/Arts Consultant
Erin Coates – Artist/ Exhibitions and Special Projects Curator, Fremantle Arts Centre, City of Fremantle
Jane King – Gallery Manager, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University

2020 Curator

The 2020 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition will be curated by:

Ron Nyisztor - Artist and Director Nyisztor Studios

Premium and Prize Sponsors

Past winners

Photos of Emerging Artist Award winners were published on the City's Facebook and Flickr Gallery.