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
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