30-563: The Blake Prize , formerly the Blake Prize for Religious Art , is an Australian art prize awarded for art that explores spirituality . Since the inaugural prize in 1951, the prize was awarded annually from 1951 to 2015, and since 2016 has been awarded biennially. As of 2021, the non-acquisitive prize, awarded since 2016 by the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC), is worth A$ 35,000 . In addition, CPAC awards
60-489: A religious affiliation with Islam was in excess of four times the national average; and the proportion of residents with no religion slightly less than one–third the national average. Liverpool City Council is composed of eleven councillors , including the mayor , for a fixed four-year term of office. The mayor is directly elected while the ten other Councillors are elected proportionally as two separate wards , each electing five councillors. The most recent election
90-557: A regular travelling exhibition around Australia, visiting various major cities and provincial galleries. The award of the Blake Prize to Charles Bannon in 1954 for his Judas Iscariot was one of the most controversial in its history; this opened controversy over what constituted religious art and over " abstract expressionism " which threatened to overwhelm the exhibition. In 2000, the prize shifted its focus from strictly religious art to an exploration of spirituality, and some of
120-607: A science theme Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales Landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize See also [ edit ] Lists of art awards References [ edit ] ^ Musa, Helen (17 April 2024). "Canberra artists top the Gallipoli Art Prize" . Canberra CityNews . Retrieved 13 September 2024 . ^ Kennedy Prize ^ Kilgour Prize ^ "Home" . nag.org.au . ^ Musa, Helen (3 August 2021). "Finalists announced in
150-822: A strong working-class presence and manufacturing facilities. Liverpool also became renowned for its vast Housing Commission estates housing thousands of low-income families after the slum clearance and urban renewal programs in inner-city Sydney in the 1960s. The City of Liverpool is home to one of the largest municipal libraries in Sydney. Freedom of Entry The City of Liverpool has bestowed Freedom of Entry just three times in its 150 years of local government. The Australian Army 's Royal Australian Engineers were granted Freedom of Entry in 1959 and re-affirmed in 2018 as part of Liverpool's Centenary of Armistice commemoration. The Australian Air League 's Moorebank Squadron were granted Freedom of Entry in 2022 marking 60 years in
180-552: Is a local government area , administered by Liverpool City Council , located in the south-west of Sydney , in the state of New South Wales , Australia . The area encompasses 305.5 square kilometres (118.0 sq mi) and its administrative centre is located in the suburb of Liverpool . The mayor of the City is Cr. Ned Mannoun, a member of the Liberal Party . The following suburbs and localities are located within
210-518: The 2006 census was 7.14 per cent and in the subsequent five years to the 2011 census , population growth was 9.44 per cent. At the 2016 census, the population in the City increased by 13.24 per cent. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same period, being 8.8 per cent, population growth in the Liverpool local government area was significantly higher than the national average. The median weekly income for residents within
240-849: The Blake Poetry Prize to link art and literature and to give Australian poets new possibilities to explore the nature of spirituality in the 21st century. In 2011, Australian art historian, educator and exhibition curator Rosemary Crumlin authored a book documenting 60 years of the Blake Prize. In 2012, the National Art School was replaced as exhibition partner by the National Trust 's S. H. Ervin Gallery in Observatory Park , in Sydney's city centre , for
270-2327: The Fleurieu Peninsula Fremantle Print Award Little Creatures Brewery Gallipoli Art Prize Gallipoli Memorial Club Acquisitive art prize commemorating the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War , awarded annually. Glover Prize John Glover Society For paintings of the landscape of Tasmania Gold Coast Art Prize Gold Coast City Art Gallery Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award Helen Lempriere Bequest Defunct since 2009 Helena Rubinstein Portrait Prize Helena Rubinstein Foundation) no longer awarded Helpmann Awards Live Performance Australia For live entertainment and performing arts Impact Awards Performing Arts Connections Australia Presenter/venue & Producer Awards (Performing Arts) John Fries Award Copyright Agency Emerging visual artists Kennedy Prize Kennedy Arts Foundation Annual Australian arts award of $ 25,000 Kilgour Prize Newcastle Art Gallery $ 50,000 figurative and portrait art competition The Ledger Awards Named after pioneering Australian cartoonist Peter Ledger (1945–1994) Mandorla Art Award New Norcia Monastery Museum and Art Gallery Christian art John McCaughey Prize National Gallery of Victoria Art Gallery of New South Wales 1957– Melrose Prize South Australian Society of Arts Prize for portraiture instituted in 1921 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Works on Paper Award Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Contemporary art made on, or with, paper Mosman Art Prize Mosman Town Council Muswellbrook Art Prize Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Art Gallery of
300-580: The Holsworthy Barracks . There are a number of other military establishments in neighbouring Moorebank. Until the 1950s, Liverpool was still a satellite town with an agricultural economy based on poultry farming and market gardening . However the tidal surge of urban sprawl which engulfed the rich flatlands west of Sydney known as the Cumberland Plain soon reached Liverpool, and it became an outer suburb of metropolitan Sydney with
330-807: The 2021 National Capital Art Prize" . Canberra CityNews . Retrieved 19 September 2021 . External links [ edit ] "Australian Art News & Competitions" . Art Prizes . 14 July 2020. v t e Australian art awards Archibald Bald Archy Blake Bowness Clemenger Conrad Jupiters Dobell Doug Moran Fleurieu Fremantle Print Award Gallipoli Art Prize Glover Gold Coast Art Prize Helen Lempriere McCaughey Mandorla Mosman NATSIAA National New Media Art Award National Works on Paper Portia Geach Phoenix Prize for Spiritual Art Photographic portrait Ramsay Art Prize Salon des Refusés Sculpture by
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#1732772344902360-526: The 61st edition of the awards. In 2014 there were new commercial sponsors, and the venue partner became UNSW College of Fine Arts (now UNSW School of Art & Design). The prize was administered by the Blake Society up till and including 2015. After the 63rd edition of the prize in January, chair Rod Pattenden said that it would not be able to continue owing to lack of sponsorship, suggesting that
390-1051: The Archibald Prize Sculpture by the Sea Sculpture by the Sea Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards Sidney Myer Fund Sir John Sulman Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales Solar art prize Royal Society of the Arts, South Australia Climate change themes South Australian Ruby Awards Government of South Australia Named for Dame Ruby Litchfield Stanley Award Australian Cartoonists' Association Annual comics award Stencil Art Prize Marrickville Council etc. Includes international stencil artists Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize South Australian Museum For art with
420-694: The Blake Emerging Artist Prize, an acquisitive prize of A$ 6,000 (formerly the John Coburn Emerging Artist Award), and the Blake Established Artist Residency, which includes a residency and solo exhibition hosted by CPAC. The prize was established in Sydney in 1949 as an incentive to raise the standard of religious art and to find suitable work to decorate churches. It was founded by Jewish businessman Richard Morley,
450-432: The City of Liverpool was lower than the national average. At the 2016 census, the area was linguistically diverse, with a significantly higher than average proportion (57.2 per cent) where two or more languages are spoken (national average was 22.2 per cent); and a significantly lower proportion (41.4 per cent) where English only was spoken at home (national average was 72.7 per cent). The proportion of residents who stated
480-544: The City of Liverpool. Liverpool is at the head of navigation of the Georges River and combined with the Great Southern Railway from Sydney to Melbourne reaching Liverpool in the late 1850s, Liverpool became a major agricultural and transportation centre as the land in the district was very productive. A large army base was established in Liverpool during World War I , and exists to this day as
510-453: The City of Liverpool: At the 2016 census there were 204,326 people in the Liverpool local government area, of these 49.6 per cent were male and 50.4 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.5 per cent of the population; significantly below the NSW and Australian averages of 2.9 and 2.8 per cent respectively. The median age of people in the City of Liverpool
540-710: The Colonies and the British city of Liverpool upon which some of the city's architecture is based. On 19 September 1843, the Liverpool District Council was established by charter, with Captain Samuel Moore as its first magistrate and warden, and Thomas Valentine Blomfield, Thomas Harper, David Johnston, Joshua John Moore, Richard Sadlier and Edward Weston as councillors. Its area also included most of Sutherland Shire . The new form of government
570-909: The Northern Territory National Capital Art Prize ACT Prizes in four categories: Open, First Nations, Landscape and Student National New Media Art Award Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane National Photographic Portrait Prize National Portrait Gallery (Canberra) Portia Geach Memorial Award The Trust Company, Perpetual Prize for Australian female portraitists Ramsay Art Prize Art Gallery of South Australia $ 100,000 prize for contemporary artists under 40 years old Ranamok Glass Prize Andy Plummer and Maureen Cahill Defunct from 2015 Salon des Refusés (Archibald) S.H. Ervin Gallery Rejected submissions to
600-558: The Reverend Michael Scott SJ , a headmaster of Campion Hall , Point Piper , and subsequently rector of Aquinas College (a Catholic residential college for university students in North Adelaide ), and lawyer M. Tenison. The Blake Prize is named after the artist and poet, William Blake . The inaugural Blake Prize was awarded by the Blake Society in 1951 to Justin O'Brien . The Blake exhibitions have been
630-1257: The Riverina , Wagga Wagga Parody of the Archibald Prize Blake Prize Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Focus on spiritual arts Bowness Photography Prize Monash Gallery of Art Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship Art Gallery of New South Wales Includes three-month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris the churchie emerging art prize Institute of Modern Art Since 1987; formerly at Griffith University Art Gallery (now Museum) Clemenger Contemporary Art Award Art Gallery of New South Wales 1993-2009 (no longer awarded) Cornell Prize Cornell family South Australia, from 1951 to 1965 Dobell Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales No longer awarded Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Doug Moran Annual Australian portrait prize Fleurieu Art Prize South Australia wineries Named for
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#1732772344902660-721: The Sea Sulman Waterhouse Prize Wynne Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Australian_art_awards&oldid=1245521712 " Category : Australian visual arts awards Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Use dmy dates from July 2020 Use Australian English from July 2020 All Misplaced Pages articles written in Australian English City of Liverpool (New South Wales) The City of Liverpool
690-639: The crucifixion of Christ. The prize was known as the Blake Prize for Religious Art until its 56th edition in 2007, and was based at the National Art School in Darlinghurst at this time. For its 57th edition in 2008, it was rebranded the Blake Prize, subtitled "Exploring the spiritual and religious in art". In 2008 the Blake Society, in collaboration with the New South Wales Writers' Centre (now Writing NSW), established
720-511: The entries proved controversial. In 2007, former prime minister John Howard and former Catholic archbishop of Sydney George Pell expressed disapproval of art works showing the Virgin Mary in a burqa , and a hologram of Christ morphing with Osama bin Laden . In 2008, The Australian ' s art critic Christopher Allen resigned from the judging panel over an entry by Adam Cullen showing
750-748: The 💕 Main art awards by organisations based in Australia This List of Australian art awards covers the main art awards given by organisations based in Australia. Most are for Australian art but some are open to artists from elsewhere. Award Sponsor Notes Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales First major prize for portraiture in Australian art Australian Photographic Portrait Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales Discontinued in 2007 Bald Archy Prize Museum of
780-614: The prize for the 64th Blake Prize, and it became a biennial award. It now focuses on the broader spiritual arts rather than religious art. The Casula Powerhouse took over the Blake Poetry Prize in the same year. From 2009 until 2014, the Blake Prize for Human Justice, worth A$ 5,000 , was sponsored by the Maritime Union of Australia . The winners were: As of 2021, there are three prizes awarded by Casula Powerhouse: List of Australian art awards From Misplaced Pages,
810-552: The prize was seen as "too open-minded" by religious organisations and "too religious" by secular people. In July, the Casula Powerhouse Art Centre (CPAC) and Liverpool City Council announced that they would be funding and managing the prize, with the exhibition and awards moving to Casula in Western Sydney . They promised that A$ 25,000 would be available in perpetuity. In 2016 CPAC took over
840-415: Was 33 years; significantly lower than the national median of 38 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 22.7 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 10.4 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 51.8 per cent were married and 11.0 per cent were either divorced or separated. Population growth in the City of Liverpool between the 2001 census and
870-412: Was held on 14 September 2024, and the makeup of the council, including the mayor, is as follows: The current Council, elected in 2024, in order of election by ward, is: It is one of the oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded in 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie . He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson , Earl of Liverpool , who was then the secretary of state for
900-504: Was not popular and fizzled out by 1850. After 148 local residents lodged a petition with the governor on 4 September 1871, the Municipality of Liverpool was proclaimed on 27 June 1872. At its first election on 27 August 1872, Richard Sadleir was elected Mayor. On 1 January 1949, the Municipality absorbed Riding B of the abolished Nepean Shire . On 9 December 1960, the Municipality was proclaimed by Governor Eric Woodward as
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