Applications for the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship are now open until August 9, with five artists aged between 20 and 30 to take $10,000 and a two-week residency in Kangaroo Valley.
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During the residency at the Shark Island Institute, recipients live and work together to develop new bodies of work, a mentoring session by Archibald Prize winning artist and former Scholarship winner Ben Quilty is offered as well as visits by other prominent arts figures in the industry.
"I'm not exaggerating when I say that the two weeks were completely life changing for me, and signified not only a direct shift in my practice, but also in my dedication to pursuing a life of making art,"said previous recipient Georgia Spain (who went on to win the 2021 Sir John Sulman Prize).
Artists can submit their applications online, which then will be judged by Sydney-based artist Abdul Abdullah, a five-time Archibald Prize and Sulman Prize finalist and a Wynne Prize finalist in 2019. Abdullah is an Australian multi-disciplinary artist with a practice that is primarily concerned with the experience of the 'other' in society, in particular the experience of young Muslims in Australia.
The finalists and five recipients of the Scholarship will be announced on October 27 and their work will be shown in an exhibition curated by Wendy Whiteley at the Brett Whiteley Studio.
Mrs Beryl Whiteley (1917-2010) generously allocated funds for the scholarship in memory of her son, Brett Whiteley, both to encourage excellence in painting and to offer young artists the same opportunity to develop their careers as were afforded to her son.
The 2021 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship free exhibition will open to the public at the Studio from 28 October and on the Brett Whiteley Studio website.
Events may be adjusted or cancelled subject to changes to public health advice and guidelines.
