Tag Archives: Lori Pensini

Lori Pensini wins the 2024 Portia Geach Memorial Award

25 October 2024 | Art Almanac

The $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award is presented annually to a female Australian artist for the best portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in art, letters or the sciences....

Lori Pensini | KILGOUR PRIZE 2021 winner

27 August 2021 | Art Almanac

West Australian artist Lori Pensini, winner of this year's $50,000 KILGOUR PRIZE, with her intimate reflection on inter-racial relationships and her own family lineage....

Alison Mackay wins 2020 Gallipoli Art Prize with ‘Breathe’

17 April 2020 | Art Almanac

Alison Mackay has won the 2020 Gallipoli Art Prize with her powerful work, Breathe, depicting nine different gas masks, mostly from WWI....

2020 Gallipoli Art Prize

16 April 2020 | Art Almanac

Images from soldiers bathing in Anzac Cove to a woman receiving devastating news via telegram are depicted in the 2020 Gallipoli Art Prize....

2020 Gallipoli Art Prize finalists announced

7 April 2020 | Art Almanac

Soldiers bathing in Anzac Cove, a 14-year-old private in his ill-fitting uniform and a woman receiving devastating news via telegram – these are some of the images depicted by the 2020 Gallipoli Art Prize finalists....

The Lester Prize for Portraiture 2019 winners

11 November 2019 | Art Almanac

The Lester Prize 2019 works reveal stories of self-reflection, struggle over hardship and unique insights from self-portraits to people who have played a significant part in the artists' lives....

‘Pride and Prejudice’ wins the 2018 Kilgour Prize People’s Choice

10 October 2018 | Art Almanac

Lori Pensini wins the Kilgour Prize 2018 People's Choice with Pride and Prejudice, a story of race relations in early Australia, painted following her Western Australian family's 'recent discovery of indigenous lineage'....