The Muswellbrook Art Prize is an acquisitive art competition hosted by the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre in the Muswellbrook Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
History
The competition was first held in 1958, at that time as the Festival of the Valley Art Prize, as an annual event until the establishment of the Regional Arts Centre as a purpose-built standalone complex in 1999.[1]
1958 - Festival of the Valley Art Prize opened in Muswellbrook as an annual acquisitive art competition [2]
1956 - Works on Paper category added to the Art Prize (as the Drawing Prize)[2]
1961 - Acquisitive Traditional Prize category added to the Art Prize (until 1968)[2]
1971 - Acquisitive Muswellbrook Pottery Prize category added to the Art Prize (until 1976)[3]
1974 - Art Prize renamed The Muswellbrook Art Prize and Purchase Exhibition and The Muswellbrook Pottery Prize[2]
1987 - Acquisitive Muswellbrook Pottery Prize renamed Muswellbrook Open Ceramic Award a restored as a category[2]
1987 - Acquisitive Muswellbrook Photographic Award category added to the Art Prize [3]
2002 - Muswellbrook Art Prize becomes a biennial event with winning art works housed in the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre Collection[2]
2016 - Prize monies increased to $50,000 for Painting, $10,000 for Works on Paper, and $10,000 for Ceramics [4]
2021 - Acquisitive Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize added to the collection of Photography again.
Description
The objective of the Muswellbrook Art Prize was stated at inception as '...to foster the interest in and understanding of art in the Upper Hunter Valley and to play a part, however modest, in the promotion of art and the encouragement of artists generally throughout Australia, the prize winning works to form the nucleus of a Muswellbrook Municipal Council Collection.'[5]
At $70,000, the Muswellbrook Art Prize was in 2016 the second-richest art prize in South-East Asia.[4]
Suzanne Archer
David Aspden
Peter Atkins
Alec Baker Sydney Ball
Michael Bell Marion Borgelt
Dorothy Braund
Viola Bromley
Liz Cuming
Jacqueline Dabron
Stephen Earle
Nick Ferguson
Roy Fluke Dale Frank
Peter Gardiner
Thomas Gleghorn
Geoff Harvey Weaver Hawkins
Pearl Ingram Jean Isherwood
Louis James
Ian Johnstone
Colin Jordan
Hanna Kay
Michael Kitching Richard Larter
Margot Lewers
Margaret Loy Pula Elwyn Lynn
John Martin
Noel McKenna
Dennis Miller
John Montefiore
Angus Nivison John Ogburn Mike Parr
William Peascod
Charles Pettinger
David Rankin Henry Salkauskas
Michael Shannon
Eric Smith
David Strachan
Catherine & Jennifer Strutt
Lillian Sutherland
Lezlie Tilley
Rosemary Valadon Fred Williams
Works on Paper
Suzanne Archer
John Bokor
Francis Celtlan
Tony Coleing
Barbara Davidson Janet Dawson
Garry Foye
Peter Gill
Strom Gould Guy Grey-Smith Peter Griffen
Rew Hanks
David Harrex
Ronald Hawke
Mimi Jaksic-Berger
Garry Jones
Jane Lander
Frank McNamara
Claire Martin Bea Maddock
Kiata Mason
George Moore
Murdo Morrison
Angus Nivison
Robert Shepherd
Paul Smith
Cameron Sparks
Dallas Sym Choon
Imre Szigeti
Rosemary Valadon
Paul White
Margaret Wilson Salvatore Zofrea
Vera Zulumovski
Ceramics
Hildegard Anstice
William Brownhill
Enid Cryer
Greg Daly
Peter Dobinson
Jan Downes
Toni Fischer
Vicki Hamilton
Gudrun Klix
Joanne Linsdell
William Lungas Janet Mansfield
Jane McKenzie
Kathryn McMiles
Bunty Mitchell
Susanne Moore
Lyn Nash Chester Nealie
Megan Puls
Pam Sinnott
Vipoo Srivilasa
Ray Taylor
Peter Tilley
Peter Wheeler
Bruce Adams
John Bailey
Tony Bond
William Bowmore
Barbara Blaxland David Bradshaw
Roger Butler Edmund Capon
Grace Cochrane
Dennis Colesy
Tracy Cooper-Lavery
Richard Crebbin
Enid Cryer
Gill Docking
Deborah Edwards
Joe Eisenberg
Judi Elliot
Andrew Fergusson
Brian Finemore Tim Fisher James Gleeson
Mollie Grieves
Gillian Grigg
Michael Hedger
John Henshaw Sali Herman
Ian Howard
Robert Hughes
Garry Jones
Michael Keighery Peter Laverty Euan MacDonald
Ivan McMeekin Hal Missingham Nick Mitzevich
Bernice Murphy Chester Nealie John Olsen
Peter O’Neill Desiderius Orban
Barry Pearce
Ron Ramsey Lloyd Rees
Peter Rushforth Anne Ryan
Bernard Sahm
Maisy Stapleton
Leigh Summers
Helen Sweeney
Daniel Thomas
David Thomas
Laurie Thomas
Peter Timms
Bruce Tindale Tony Tuckson Guy Warren
Joy Warren
Jane Watters
Bill Wright
^"Muswellbrook Art Prize". Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. Muswellbrook Shire Council. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
^ abcdef"Muswellbrook Art Prize". Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. Muswellbrook Shire Council. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
^ abRumley, Katrina (2008). Fifty Plus: Half a century of collecting at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. Muswellbrook Shire Council. ISBN9780959678116.
^ ab"Biggest in Australasia". Muswellbrook Chronicle. Fairfax Media. 15 October 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
^Rumley, Katrina (2008). 50 Plus: Half a century of collecting at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre. ISBN9780959678116.
