Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious local government art award. It was founded by the artist, architect and arts advocate, Alderman Allan Gamble, at a time when only a small handful of art prizes were in existence in Australia and the community had very little support and few opportunities to exhibit their work.
Entries for the 2020 Prize, for which there were over 580, demonstrated a remarkable spectrum of approaches in considering how we relate to the coordinates of the world at this time and the trajectory of contemporary painting.
IMAGE:
Bump in the night 2019
oil on linen
125 x 104.5 cm