The 2006 Portia Geach Memorial Award attracted a submission of 309 works from which 60 works were selected for the exhibition at the S H Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill from 30 September to 5 November.

This year’s event was held at the S H Ervin Gallery, Thursday 28 September.   Angela Clark, Chief Executive Officer, Macquarie Radio Network, gave the opening address.

Lucy Culliton won the Portia Geach Memorial Award 2006 for her painting titled “Self with Friends”.

- Lucy Culliton

Artistic Statement – Lucy Culliton
“I paint in my studio in the Kanimbla Valley.  Earlier this year, I spent a week in Sydney painting a serious portrait of a friend.

Keeping sketch book near, I also drew every other friend I caught up with that week and sat up making little gouaches from my studies.  When I returned to Hartley this painting was made.  It summed up my big week, lots and lots of portraiture practice and this being the last night out with my mentors, Ray and McLean (the ash tray is not full of butts- it’s my nervous craft of ripping coasters).”

Lucy Culliton is a painter living in Hartley, west of the Blue Mountains.  She is a prolific painter of landscape and still life and to a lesser degree portraiture.

Highly Commended - Joanna Braithwaite, Pleasant Point Revisited

- Joanna Braithwaite

Artistic Statement – Joanna Braithwaite
“Pleasant Point Revisited is a self portrait in which I contemplate the years I spent in a town called Pleasant Point and the experiences I had there as a youth. Symbolic of that time are the Guinea Pigs - I kept large numbers of them that bred rapidly - some of the cleverest ones escaped their enclosures and began living in the hedges on our property where they continued to grow in numbers. In this painting (with hindsight) I look back from the present to that time which was a very formative period in my life.”

309 artists entered this year’s competition with 60 being selected for the exhibition.  To view a selection of images from this year’s exhibition please click here.

Judges for the 2006 Award were Barry Pearce, Aida Tomescu and Jane Watters.

 

 

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