26 September–2 November 2003
The annual award exhibition for portraiture by contemporary Australian women artists. The award, which was first given in 1965 in memory of the artist Portia Geach, displays selected entries from artists across the nation representing diversity in contemporary portraiture. The winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Award 2003 was Wendy Sharpe – Self portrait with tea cup and burning paintings.
2003 Finalists
BARBARA PYE The artist’s model – former Merchant Marine (Harold Small)
DEBORAH MARKS Jane as a role model (Jane Macgowan)
WENDY SHARPE Self Portrait with Teacup and Burning Paintings
POLLYXENIA JOANNOU Portrait of artist as Henri Rousseau’s child with doll
BEVERLEY DAVIES Dr Di Ciaccio (psychiatrist)
JULIA CICCARONE Patricia Piccinini (artist)
FRAN TOMLIN The Opera of Adolescence – Breaking the umbilical cord (self portrait)
MARY PRIDMORE Self Portrait IV
JESSICA CHI Kerry Chikarovski
BARBARA HASTINGS Think Green (Tony Hastings)
JOSONIA PALAITIS Paddy McGuinness (Padraic P. McGuinness, journalist)
LUCY McCANN Chapters (Jill Spilsbury, teacher)
PRUDENCE FLINT A Fine Romance #8 (self portrait)
ROSEMARY MACINDOE Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
DENISE PARKINSON Peripheral (Clarence White, actor/director/producer)
JOSEFIA LEMON Self Portrait – Human Puzzle
CHRISTINE HILLER Self Portrait with Balthus cat
KILMENY NILAND Robert Gray – Poet
DONNA LOUGHER Quiet Contemplation (Frank Watters, artist/gallerist)
MARGARET WEATHERALL Margaret (self portrait)
MARY MOORE from life (self portrait)
PAM TIPPETT Self Portrait
ANITA REZEVSKA Portrait of Zenta & Son (Zenta Zebergs and Ted)
ELIZABETH BARDEN Drew Anthony – Dancing Man (Drew Anthony, dancer/choreographer)
YOLI SALMONA Eddie (Eddie Sharp, artist)
JO BERTINI Kitty + Freda – Milikapiti (Kitty Kantilla & Freda Warlapinini, artists)
MARIA SAKELLARIADIS Self Portrait
GRACE COSTANZO Miriam and Astro Boy (Miriam Thompson, student)
DANA LUNDMARK Self Portrait
ELIZABETH GORDON-WERNER The Storyteller (Markus Weber, actor/writer/producer)
KATHRYN ORTON Social butterflies (self portrait)
JANET JONES The Young Sculptor (Damien Lucas, artist)
CAROLINE ZILINSKY Nurse Carol (nurse/social worker)
DI FENWICK A Renaissance Man (Andrew Steiner, artist)
MARYANNE COUTTS Self Portrait
JUDITH JOHNSON Enigma – Samantha Tidbeck (artist)
DIANE MAH Self Portrait at the easel
DONNA RANKIN Art Angels – Dr Edward and Mrs Cynthia Jackson
YVETTE COPPERSMITH Inverse Interior (Dr Caroline Miley, academic)
YVETTE COPPERSMITH Trio (self portrait)
SALLY ROBINSON Martyn Robinson (biologist)
LISA HOLZL Double self portrait
MARGARITA GEORGIADIS I’m Post Her – Self Portrait
LEANNE CRISP …words are the daughters of the earth (Marion Halligan, author)
GLENDA JONES Linda Burney (politician/activist)
SANDRA WILLIAMS Will. Late Autumn (Will Hunt)
LAURA MATTHEWS Self Portrait with Blue Vase
JEANETTE KORDUBA-THOMPSON Self Portrait after Opening NIght
ALEXANDRA THORBY Self Portrait – Night Viewing II
JULIE CANTLE MATHER Geraldine Doogue AO (journalist)
DANELLE BERGSTROM Nancy Bird Walton – Pioneer (Nancy Bird Walton AO,OBE, Hon. D.Sc., Hon.M.E.)
SUSAN DOROTHEA WHITE Go granny Go (self portrait)
JUNKO HAGIWARA Dr Judy Messer (Dr Judy Messer AM)
NERISSA LEA Inside out (self portrait)
ANGELA BRENNAN Portrait of a Psychoanalyst (Elizabeth Newman, psychoanalyst/artist)
MELISSA BEOWULF Self Portrait
GABRIELLE MARTIN Vika and Linda (Vika and Linda Bull, singers/songwriters)
JULIE DOWLING Self Portrait: Gurlongga Nyining (Noongar translation: children together in the trees
JUNE COLQUHOUN Peter (Peter Colquhoun)
JACQUI STOCKDALE Portrait of a Portrait (self portrait)
SELECTED FINALISTS IMAGES:
