The biennial Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize provides Bendigo Art Gallery with the opportunity to survey contemporary painting by attracting many high calibre and emerging artists from around Australia, offering them an acquisitive cash prize of $50,000. [caption id="attachment_38898" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Kate Shaw, Meltdown, 2016, acrylic and resin on board[/caption] From 291 entries, this year’s selected finalists are Matt Arbuckle, Steven Asquith, Andrew Browne, Kirsty Budge, Robyn Burgess, Deidre But-Husaim, Mitch Cairns, Jon Campbell, Sadie Chandler, Marcel Cousins, Jesse Dayan, Prudence Flint, Martin George, Helga Groves, Stephen Hayley, Pei Pei He, Euan Heng, Rachael Hooper, Kez Hughes, Jennifer Joseph, Guundie…
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2017 finalists
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