The $20,000 National acquisitive Paddington Art Prize takes its place among the country’s most lucrative and highly coveted painting prizes. The prize encourages the interpretation of the landscape as a significant contemporary genre, its long tradition in Australian painting as a key contributor to our national ethos, and is a positive initiative in private patronage of the arts in Australia.
Judges Euan Macleod, Michael Nock and Peter Sharp have awarded the $20,000 first prize to Ross Laurie for his painting, Pink Dawn at Weabonga.
Additional winners:
Robyn Sweaney, Edge of Town – $2,000 Honourable Mention Prize.
Joshua Cocking, What Would I Know – $1,000 Highly Commended Prize.
Catherine Cassidy, Falling Stars 2 (Lake Eyre) – 2 Week Artist Retreat Prize at Sofala Cottage.
Mary Tonkin, Pushmu-Pullya Kalorama 2015 – UNSW Art & Design Print Prize.
Ross Laurie, Pink Dawn at Weabonga, oil on canvas, 122 x 138cm
