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Award Winners

Award Winners

2024 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés 

Awarded to Noel Thurgate for

Portrait of Ann Thomson

 oil, acrylic & collage on hardboard  155 x 120 cm 

2024 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Lori Pensini for

The Conversation #3

2024 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Joshua Yeldham

2023 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés 

Awarded to Joshua Yeldham for

Driftwood

acrylic on hand carved board 201 x 246 cm 

2023 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Kate Stevens for

The Whistleblower

2023 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Seabastion Toast for

How the light gets in (Karlee Rawkins, artist)

2022 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés 

Awarded to Mary Tonkin for

Hot Kiss, Kalorama

oil on linen 183 x 213 cm.

2022 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Lynn Savery for

Kindred Spirits

oil on linen 210 x 180 cm

2022 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Tania Wursig for

Unnamed

acrylic on cotton canvas 185 x 100 cm

2022 Evelyn Chapman Art Award

Awarded to Rachel Milne for

Nest

oil on board 160 x 120 cm

2021 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Tania Wursig for her double portrait

‘Chakita’ (Nikita Majajas and Charlie Villas)

2021 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Marie Mansfield for Tilly (Matilda Michell, artist)

2021 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Margaret Ackland for

The reader:  a self portrait in silver with glass and stripes

2020 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

 Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Joshua Yeldham for

Phantom Limb – Smith’s Creek

acrylic on hand carved board with cane 210 x 159cm

2020 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Caroline Zilinsky for

Anthea May or May Not (Anthea Pilko, contemporary dancer)

oil on linen

2020 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Ann Cape

Sophie and Scout

oil on linen 140 x 91cm

2020 Evelyn Chapman Art Award

Awarded to Caroline Zilinsky

‘Heiress to the Pied Piper’

oil on linen 97 x 97cm

2019 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

 Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Kerry McInnis for

Drawn in steel, (Harrie Fasher, sculptor)

 oil on canvas 168 x 153cm.

2019 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Sally Robinson for

Body in a Box (self  portrait)

acrylic on canvas 155 x 122cm

2019 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Kylie Melinda Smith for her portrait ‘Eileen Kramer’

2018 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

 Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Sally Ryan for Portrait of the artist’s Son, (Ben Ryan, Artist)

 oil on linen 175 x 107cm.

2018 Portia Geach Memorial Award 

Awarded to Zoe Young for ‘Drawing Storyboards’ (Bruce Beresford, Film and Opera Director), acrylic on ply, 120 x 160cm

2018 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Jude Rae for her painting,

Portrait of the Artist’s Mother – Val at 93

oil on linen 137 x 167.5cm

2018 Evelyn Chapman Art Award

Inaugural award given to Kate Stevens

‘Gaza’ oil on canvas 122 x 112cm

2017 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

 Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Luke Cornish for his portrait of artist Ben Quilty, Ben 

aerosol enamel on canvas 190 x 130cm.

2017 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Amanda Davies for her painting Portrait of Pat Brassington oil on linen, 107 x 122cm.

2017 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Kathrin Longhurst for her portrait of her daughter,

Maia at 12 and a half oil on linen 100 x 100cm. 

2016 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award 

Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Tianli Zu for her portrait of S.A. Senator, Penny Wong, The Senator and Ma. acrylic on linen  237 x 195cm

2016 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Jenny Rodgerson for her self-portrait,

Bound by the big red coat, oil on linen 157 x 176cm

2016 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Kate Stevens for her portrait of her mother,

Mama said, oil on canvas 122 x 112cm

2015 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award 

Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Paul Trefry, Homeless still human silicone, fiberglass, horse hair, and polyester resin.

2015 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Natasha Bieniek, with her portrait ‘Sahara,’

oil on wood 13.5 x  18.5

2014 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award 

 Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Nick Stathopoulos for Ugly – portrait of author Robert Hoge

2014 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Awarded to Sophie Cape with her portrait of actor Daniel Wyllie Romper Stomper oil, acrylic, bitumen, charcoal, and soil on canvas 209 x 203

2014 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Ann Cape, The last portrait of my mother, (Gwenna Thatcher) oil on linen, 120 x 90cm

2013 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award 

 Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Christopher McVinish Portrait of Colin Friels (actor) oil on canvas  132 x 122 cm

2013 Portia Geach Memorial Award 

Awarded to Hélène Grove for her self-portrait, entitled Self Portrait: Getting On.

2013 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Danelle Bergstrom You and I (Graeme Murphy & Janet Vernon)

2012 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award 

 Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Barbara Tyson with her portrait of Ita Buttrows, Ita – A Passionate Wordsmith 

2012 Portia Geach Memorial Award 

Awarded to Sally Robinson for her portrait of her late mother, The Artist’s Mother

2012 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Ann Cape, with ‘Anita’ Professor Anita Taylor

2011 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award 

Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Robert Hannaford Trevor Jamieson (actor & musician)

2011 Portia Geach Memorial Award 

Awarded to Kate Stevens, Indian Dream, for her portrait of Willy Bernardoff, animator, video and street artist.

2011 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Sophie Cape, with Master and Commander, a portrait of Captian Paul Watson.

2010 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award 

Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Ann Cape for her potrait of Kevin Connor Kevin in his Studio. 

2010 Portia Geach Memorial Award 

Awarded to Prudence Flint Scrambled egg 2010 (detail) oil on canvas 127 x 102cm

2010 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Awarded to Danelle Bergstrom, Independent Spirit (pictured left)a portrait of artist Ann Thomson. 

2009 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award 

Salon de Refusés

Awarded to Zhong Chen for his portrait Charles Blackman

2009 Portia Geach Memorial Award 

Awarded to Christine Hiller for The Old Painter

2009 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Danelle Bergstrom for Peter Sculthorpe (composer)

2008 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés

Peter Smeeth for Philip Adams – The re-match

2008 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Jude Rae for her Self Portrait (The year my husband left)

2008 Portia Geach People’s Choice

Jo Bertini for her painting Luise Guest

2007 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés

Jaiwei Shen for Tri-selves (self portrait)

2007 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Maryanne Coutts for her painting Melbourne.

2007 Portia Geach People’s Choice

Claire Busuttil Bridge for her work, ‘Vashti’, a portrait of fellow artist, Vashti Bieber.

2006 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés

Gillian Dunlop for ‘Portrait of John Gaden’

2006 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Lucy Culliton for ‘Self With Friends’

(self portrait with Ray Hughes and McLean Edwards)

2006 Portia Geach People’s Choice

Danelle Bergstrom for ‘Nancy Borlase’ (artist and critic)

2005 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés

Margaret Woodward for ‘The hobby-horse rider’

(Self portrait)

2005 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Jude Rae for ‘Large Interior (Micky Allan)’

2005 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Danelle Bergstrom for ‘Inspector Hobbs’ (Michael Hobbs, art patron and collector

2004 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés

Juan Ford  for ‘Allan & Goliath’ (Allan Fels)

2004 Portia Geach Memorial Award 

Nerissa Lea for The Sheik & Me, Self Portrait with Imagined Portrait of Chad Morgan after Frida Kahlo.

2004 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

Susan Cesarini with her portrait of the sculptor, Alan Somerville.

2003 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés

Jaiwei Shen for ‘Edmund Capon’

2003 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Wendy Sharpe for ‘Self portrait with tea cup and burning paintings’

2002 Holding Redlich People’s Choic

Salon de Refusés

David Naseby ‘Richard Hall’

2002 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Vicki Varvaressos with her work Self Portrait with painting

2001 Holding Redlich People’s Choic

Salon de Refusés

Guy Maestri  for his sculpture ‘Silent assembly’

2001 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Mary Moore for ‘at home’

2001 Portia Geach Peoples’ Choice Prize 

 Susan Hall-Thompson was the  winner this year with her self portrait

2000 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award Salon de Refusés

Evert Ploeg for his portrait of actor ‘Richard Roxburgh

2000 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Nancy Borlase was announced as the winner for her double portrait –  ‘The Sisters: Marie and Vida Breckenridge’

2000 Portia Geach Memorial People’s Choice

won by Carole Haitzler

1999 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

Salon de Refusés

the inaugural award was given to Zhou Xiaping for his double portrait

‘Jimmy Pike & Zhou Xiaoping’

1999 Portia Geach Memorial Award

awarded to Kim Spooner for Social Currency (Eva Cox)

1999 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

was won by Laila Savolainen

People’s Choice Award, 1998 Salon des Refuses

Josonia Palaitis ‘Patrick Dodson, Yawuru Man’

oil on canvas 180 x 140cm

1998 Portia Geach Memorial Award 

Anita Rezevska Woman from Rīga oil on linen

1997 People’s Choice, Salon des Refuses

Francis Giacco

Portrait of Gosia Dobrowolska

1997 Portia Geach Memorial Award 

Maria Cruz, Maria oil on canvas 92 x 66cm

People’s Choice 1996, Salon des Refuses

Ralph Heimans

Gloves off (Tom Uren)

oil on canvas   122 x 152cm

1996 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Su Baker, Self Portrait at Six Paces

1995 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait with Students, After Adelaide Labille-Guiard

1994 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Jenny Sages, Ann Thomson

1993 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Aileen Rogers, Suzanne Mourot

1992 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Jenny Sages, Nancy Borlase and Laurie Short

1991 Portia Geach Memorial Award

 Rosemary Valadon, Frances Joseph

1990 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Jenny Watson, Self Portrait

1989 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Jenny Sands, Alex Karpin