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1 & 2: Installation views of 9 shades of Whiteley

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
2007 finalists & 1999–2006 winners

On view: 15 September – 25 November 2007

The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship is awarded to a talented young artist with an established body of work, who is best able to demonstrate the use and benefit of the scholarship to further his/her, art education in Europe.

In 1999 Mrs Beryl Whiteley, the artist’s mother, generously made the funds available for the scholarship, both to encourage excellence in painting and to offer young artists the same opportunities to develop their careers as were afforded to her son.

Entry for Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship is open to Australian artists aged between 20 and 30. The Scholarship comprises an amount of $25,000 and a 3-month residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, which is administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The residency is for a continuous period of three months' occupancy, from July to September in 2008. The $25,000 must be used by the successful applicant to further their art education in Europe for a period of at least 6 months, 3 months of which must be used in conjunction with the residency.

Each year, we have a guest artist as judge who, with Barry Pearce, Head Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Edmund Capon, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, selects the winner. This year’s guest judge was artist, Aida Tomescu.

The judges and their selections have been of an excellent standard, with previous winners now being regular finalists in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes, to name a few. Last year's Archibald winner was Marcus Wills with his extraordinary portrait titled The Paul Juraszek monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts).

This is the 9th year of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship and the studio is paying homage to Beryl Whiteley and her generous and continued support of young Australian painters. All the previous winners of the scholarship have enthusiastically welcomed this opportunity and will exhibit their winning and current work alongside this year’s finalist exhibition.

2007 Finalists

There were 104 entries this year, with 21 selected as finalists:

David Brook
Age: 26, NSW
Desk  2005
oil on canvas

Nina Davis
Age: 27, NSW
Chris Hanrahan  2007
oil on board

Rehgan De Mather
Age: 26, Vic
Placebo (and the fear of nothing)  2007
acrylic, spray enamel, oilstick, charcoal and collage on canvas

Peta Dzubiel
Age: 23, NSW
Outskirts  2006
oil on canvas

Lizzie Hall
Age: 29, Vic
Into the belly of the whale  2007
oil, wax, graphite on canvas

Thérèse Harrison
Age: 25, NSW
Eight Knots  2007
oil on canvas

Nathan Hawkes
Age: 26, NSW
Icebergs  2007
oil on canvas

Samuel Hughes
Age: 29, NSW
Alleyway 10  2007
oil on canvas

Damien Kamholtz
Age: 30, Qld
C is for Cat or Alice Dreaming  2007
oil on canvas

Mitchell Kelly
Age: 25, NSW
Summer at Stuart Town  2007
acrylic and mixed media on canvas

Mason Kimber
Age: 22, WA
Window  2005
acrylic on canvas

Elyss McCleary
Age: 30, Vic
Two Figures  2007
mixed medium on paper

Lynsey McGee
Age: 30, NSW
Light Study  2007
oil on canvas

Anthony O’Carroll
Age: 28, NSW
Vertical Space, No.2  2006
acrylic and mixed media on cardboard mounted on board

Elena Papanikolakis
Age: 22, ACT
Notes on Reduction I  2007
oil and enamel on wood

Tony Phillips
Age: 26, NSW
Untitled I  2006
egg tempera on board

Shannan Sainsbury
Age: 24, NSW
Banana 3B, Banana 4B
Banana 5B, Banana 7B  2007
oil on canvas

James Shirlaw
Age: 22, NSW
Study for a self-portrait  2007
oil on canvas

Anna Wheeler
Age: 28, NSW
Black Lion at Trafalgar Square, London  2007
oil on canvas

Paul Williams
Age: 29, NSW
Head Study I  2007
acrylic and pigment on plywood

Zuza Zochowski
Age: 28, NSW
Hill End XXVIII, 11.06, Hill End XIII, 03.05
Hill End XIV, 03.05, Hill End XVIII, 06.04  2007
oil on canvas

Previous winners

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