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R & M McGivern Prize
Promoting artistic excellence
The R & M McGivern Prize is a prestigious award that promotes artistic excellence in watercolour, oil and acrylic painting.
The award was established through the will of the late Muriel Evelyn McGivern who passed away on 29 January, 2000. The award is in memory of herself and her husband, the late Reginald McGivern.
The prize is awarded every three years from the date of Mrs McGivern's death. It was first awarded in 2003.
2012 Winner
The Trust Company, as Trustee, and Maroondah City Council on Thursday 9 May 2012 announced the winner for this year’s R & M McGivern Art Prize.
Rosslynd Piggott scooped the $25,000 prize with Night – 24 hours/Tremor an oil on linen painting depicting the same area of sky over 24 hours “forming a tenuous time line across a falling and chaotic night sky”.
30 artworks were selected from 398 submissions to be part of the 2012 Exhibition. The Trust Company congratulates Rosslynd, and all of the artists who are part of this year’s exhibition.
The exhibition is open to the public until 10 May - 23 June 2012.
To read the judges’ Report please click here.
Read the full press release click here.
Winner
Rosslynd Piggott, Night - 24 hours/Tremor
Artistic Statement
Every hour for 24 hours the same area of sky was observed and recorded, awake and half - asleep , forming a tenuous time line across a falling and chaotic night sky. Memories of tremors past and those to come. Everyone of us lives with what is known and what is unknown, certain and less certain. This painting aims not to illustrate these ideas, but to emanate them, in stillness and vibration.
2012 Applications
The Trust Company, as Trustee, and Maroondah City Council announced the names of the 30 finalists selected for this year’s R & M McGivern Art Prize.
The finalists for the 2012 R & M McGivern Art Prize are:
Artist |
Title of Artwork |
Sally Alliston |
Glass Jar |
Antonia Antoniou |
Candlelight |
| Peter Atkins | Closing Down Sale - Everything Must Go! |
| Xiao Bai | Beyond the fountain, it is... |
| Monika Behrens | Ripple |
| Kate Bergin | The Self Preservation Society |
| Dean Bowen | Moonlight Comet |
| Claire Bridge | Still Waters |
| Matthew Butterworth | Kathryn reading the letter that finalized her divorce (2) |
| Hamish Carr | Encephalodigital conversion |
Raymond Carter |
Untitled (The Watchers) |
| Magda Cebokli | Ring #2 |
| Karin Chan | In Transit |
| Brett Colquhoun | Quicksand |
| Jason Cordero | Darkness of Day |
| Gabrielle Courtenay | Great Wall meets Rabbit Proof Fence |
| Colleen DaRosa | almost like having you here |
| Jo Davenport | Between Uncertainties |
| Graeme Drendel | The Witnesses No 4 |
| Phil Edwards | Children of Big Dirt |
| Prudence Flint | Button |
| David Frazer | Broken Home (the Ladder) II |
| Dena Kahan | Glass Garden #10 |
| Matt Martin | Perseveration |
| Fiona McMonagle | Timothy |
| Rosslynd Piggott | Night -24 hours / Tremor |
| Adam Pyett | Mother, Johnston St |
| Deborah Russell | Controlled burn |
| Andrew Seward | Springboard |
| Murray Walker | A Beggar in Paris |
The 2012 judging panel is Kelly Gellatly, Curator of Australian contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Jason Smith, Director, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Warwick Reeder, Reeder Fine Art.
The theme artists were invited to respond to this year was 'Uncertainty' - the condition of being unsure about someone, something or the outcome of a future event. Whether economic, political, environmental, social or personal the twenty-first century is characterised by uncertainty.
Read the full press release here.
For more information on the gallery or the exhibition please contact Maroondah Art Gallery on (03) 9298 4542.
2015 Applications
The scholarship will next be offered in 2015.
To be placed on the database for a notification of applications opening, please email your details to trustawards@thetrustcompany.com.au,with the subject line stating the award name.
Previous Winners
Previous winners of the R&M McGivern Prize include:
- 2009 Celeste Chandler Untitled 5 (from the series 'naked in the dark')
- 2006 Stephen Haley United (but not reconciled)
- 2003 Martin King First Rain II
Further information
The Trust Company is trustee for the R & M McGivern Prize. For more information please contact Christina Piazza, Scholarships and Awards
Coordinator on 1800 622 812 or trustawards@thetrustcompany.com.au
