Portia Geach Memorial Award 2019 winner | Sally Robinson

Sydney artist Sally Robinson has been awarded the 2019 'Portia Geach Memorial Award', Australia's most recognised portraiture prize for women for her work titled Body in a box (2019).  Perpetual, trustee of the Award, presented Robinson with the $30,000 prize at S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks on Thursday 1 August. This is the second time the artist has won the 'Portia Geach Memorial Award', the first was in 2012 with her portrait The Artist’s Mother (2012). ‘Winning the award for a second time is rather a shock – to win once is wonderful, to win twice is totally unexpected. But of…