13 October – 12 November 2000
The much-anticipated Portia Geach Portrait Award for women artists is the result of the generosity and foresight of Florence Kate Geach, who made arrangements for future Australians in her Will when she endowed this Award in memory of her late sister Portia Geach.
52 women artists were selected for the exhibition and the winner was Nancy Borlase for her double portrait – The Sisters: Marie and Vida Breckenridge. the winner of the People’s Choice was Carole Kivinen-Lilja for Blue Turban – self portrait
Judges: Dinah Dysart, Andrew Sayers, Jenny Sages.
This year’s selection is an edgy balance of tradition and experimentation.
The estate is administered by The Permanent Group who look after a wide variety of charitable bequests.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Melissa Becker
Melissa Beowulf
Nancy Borlase
Angela Brennan
Catherine Cassidy
Grace Costanzo
Maryanne Coutts,
Lucy Culliton
Elizabeth Darby
Esther Erlich
Prudence Flint
Margaret Ferddickson
Catherine Giles
Cathy Golski
Lorna Jane Grear
Faye Grimshaw
Paula B. Hall
Sophie Hann
Prue Hawke
Juliet Holmes à Court
Nance Irvine
Joanna Jensen
Glenda Jones,
Carole Kivinen-Lilja
Rita Lazauskas
Lindy Lee
Gwen Leitch Harris
Barbara Licha
Victoria Lobregat
Deborah Marks
Gabrielle Martin
Jocelyn Maughan
Jennifer McCamley
Lisa McKimmie
Kilmeny Niland
Josonia Palatis
Barbara Pye
Alison Radic
Donna Rankin
Anita Rezevska
Sally Robinson
Kim Spooner
Louise Surmon,
Suellen Symons
Alexandra Thorby
Samatha Tidbeck
Fran Tomlin
Rosemary Valadon
Jenny Watson
Vicki White
Deborah Wilkinson
Jackie Wilson
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Sunday 15 October Artists and sitters – Nancy Borlase & Marie Breckenridge; Fran Tomlin & Irena Hatfield ; Kim Spooner & Kerry Walker
Sunday 22 October Artists and gallery directors – Lindy Lee & Melissa Chiu; Barbara Licha & Brenda May; Suellen Symons
Sunday 29 October Artists and artists as sitters – Jackie Wilson with Brenda Humble & Jocelyn Maughan
Sunday 5 November Two artists, one sitter…and Thomas Kenneally – Lucy Culliton has painted a self portrait & has been painted by Samantha Tidbeck ; Josonia Palaitis has painted Thomas Kenneally
Sunday 12 November What does the ‘self portrait’ reveals – Rita Lazauskas ‘Sometime later…Gainsborough revisited’; Catherine Cassidy ‘Self portrait’; Paula B. Hall ‘Keeping fit’; Juliet Holmes A Court ‘Background of an artist’
main image: NANCY BORLASE The Sisters: Marie and Vida Breckenridge
Past Winners of the Portia Geach Memorial Award
2000 – Nancy Borlase, The Sisters: Marie and Vida Breckenridge
1999 – Kim Spooner, Social Currency (Eva Cox)
1998 – Anita Rezevska, Self Portrait – Woman from Riga
1997 – Maria Isabel, Cruz Maria
1996 – Su Baker, Self Portrait at Six Paces
1995 – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait with Students, After Adelaide Labille-Guiard
1994 – Jenny Sages, Ann Thomson
1993 – Aileen Rogers, Suzanne Mourot
1992 – Jenny Sages,Nancy Borlase and Laurie Short
1991 – Rosemary Valadon, Frances Joseph
1990 – Jenny Watson, Self Portrait
1989 – Jenny Sands, Alex Karpin
1988 – Margaret Ackland, Shay Docking
1987 – Christine Hiller, Self Portrait
1986 – Christine Hiller, Self Portrait
1985 – Gwen Eichler, Dianne Fogwell
1984 – Margaret Woodward, Madeleine Halliday
1983 – Margaret Woodward, Self Portrait
1982 – Brenda Humble, Virginia Hall
1981 – Susan Howard, Jenny Kee
1980 – Judy Pennefather, Venie Schulenberg
1979 – Ivy Shore, Kondelea (Della) Elliott
1978 – Dora Toovey, Senator Neville Bonner
1977 – Ena Joyce, George Lawrence
1976 – Jocelyn Maughan, George Bouckley
1975 – Mary Brady, Elizabeth Rooney
1974 – Lesley H Pockley, Hugh Paget
1973 – Sylvia Tiarks, Self Portrait
1972 – Elisabeth Cummings, Jean Appleton
1971 – Mary Brady, Larry Sitsky
1970 – Dora Toovey, Self Portrait in Landscape
1969 – Vaike Liibus, Guy Warren
1968 – Bettina McMahon, Self Portrait
1967 – Jo Caddy, Laurence Davis
1966 – Mary Brady, Grahame Edgar
1965 – Jean Appleton, Self Portrait