Tag Archives: Portia Geach Memorial Award

Michelle Hiscock wins the 2025 Portia Geach Memorial Award

19 September 2025 | Art Almanac

Michelle Hiscock, The Weather Watcher after Zurbarán

"It's such an intimate, heartfelt portrait of someone facing the ultimate challenge in life and to know that the panel must have felt that was incredibly affirming." – Michelle Hiscock...

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....

Lynn Savery wins the 2022 Portia Geach Memorial Award

17 September 2022 | Art Almanac

This year's finalist exhibition displays fifty-eight works by leading Australian women artists representing the diversity in contemporary portraiture....

Marie Mansfield wins the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Award

5 November 2021 | Art Almanac

Marie Mansfield has won the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Award, the pre-eminent portraiture prize for women in Australia, for her portrait of artist Matilda Michell entitled Tilly....

Portia Geach Memorial Award 2020 winner announced

13 August 2020 | Art Almanac

Caroline Zilinsky has been announced as the winner of the 2020 Portia Geach Memorial Award; find out more about her winning work....

Kylie Melinda Smith wins the 2019 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

13 September 2019 | Art Almanac

Sydney-based artist Kylie Melinda Smith has won this year's $1,000 'Portia Geach People’s Choice Award' with a portrait of 104-year-old dancer Eileen Kramer....

Portia Geach Memorial Award 2019 winner | Sally Robinson

2 August 2019 | Art Almanac

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). ...

2018 Portia Geach Memorial Award｜Winner announced

11 October 2018 | Art Almanac

Zoe Young has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Portia Geach Memorial Award, the pre-eminent portraiture prize for women in Australia, receiving $30,000 prize for her portrait entitled Drawing Storyboards....

Portia Geach Memorial Award finalists for 2018

5 October 2018 | Art Almanac

Fifty finalists have been announced for Australia's most distinguished portrait prize for female artists, the 'Portia Geach Memorial Award'. ...

$30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award | 2017 winner announced

20 October 2017 | Art Almanac

Tasmanian-based artist Amanda Davies has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Portia Geach Memorial Award, the pre-eminent portraiture prize for women in Australia, for her painting of contemporary photographer Pat Brassington....

Natasha Bieniek wins the 2015 Portia Geach Memorial Award

22 September 2015 | Art Almanac

From a pool of 295 entries, Melbourne-based artist Natasha Bieniek has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Portia Geach Memorial Award, the pre-eminent portraiture prize for women in Australia. Celebrating its 50th year, the Portia Geach Memorial Award was established by Florence Kate Geach...

Danelle Bergstrom wins People’s Choice Award | Portia Geach Memorial Award 2013

14 November 2013 | Art Almanac

Sydney based artist Danelle Bergstrom has won the Portia Geach Memorial Award People’s Choice with a portrait of dance collaborators and life partners Graeme Murphy AO and Janet Vernon AM. When informed of the award Bergstrom said that she was humbled on winning the Portia Geach...