The biennial National Photography Prize celebrates excellence in photography, and as the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) shares, the award solicits the most innovative and thoughtful photo-based practices from across the country. Generously supported by the MAMA Art Foundation, the National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive first prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.
The 2020 finalists are; Anthea Behm, Danica Chappell, Elise Harmsen, Ali McCann, Hayley Millar-Baker, Kent Morris, Sarah Mosca, Phuong Ngo, Lillian O’Neil, Emma Phillips, Debra Phillips and Justine Varga.
The exhibition gives audiences the ability to consider each of the finalists’ work in-depth, with a number of key recent works by each finalist resulting in an exhibition that has much room for reflection on the current state of photography and image-based work in Australia.
Established in 1983, this will be the 15th edition of the nation’s longest-running acquisitive photographic award.
Anthea Behm, Three Unframed, 2020, National Photography Prize 2020 Exhibition of Finalists, Murray Art Museum Albury, installation view. Photograph: Jeremy Weihrauch. Courtesy the artist and Murray Art Museum Albury, New South Wales
Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
21 February to 31 May 2020 – extended until the museum reopens
New South Wales
Please note that Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) is closed, effective from 12pm Monday 23 March, until further notice. However, a virtual walkthrough of MAMA’s current exhibitions, including ‘National Photography Prize 2020’, in their 3D museum tour.
