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the churchie emerging art prize, formerly the churchie national emerging art prize and also known informally as the churchie, is a national Australian non-acquisitive art award and art exhibition, established in 1987.
The award was established in 1987[1] as an initiative of the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane (known as "Churchie"[2]).[3]
Brand + Slater Architects became the major prize sponsors from around 1998.[4]
From 2010, the finalists were exhibited in the Griffith University Art Gallery (GUAG) at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane.[4] Its name was at that time "the churchie national emerging art prize".[5][6] GUAG established a partnership with the school, and staff members from the school sat on the Emerging Art Committee as well as developing educational materials to complement the exhibition, aimed at school-age students.[4]
Since 2019 and as of 2022[update], the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane has hosted the awards.[7][8]
Its aim is to help develop the careers of emerging artists. This term refers to artists who already have a body of work and some profile as an artist, but "not yet fully established in their artistic career".[4]
All finalists' work is displayed at the gallery in a curated exhibition. As of 2022[update] it has a prize pool of A$25,000, with the major prize of A$15,000 sponsored by BSPN Architecture.[8] There is also a People's Choice Award of (A$5,000), decided by visitors to the exhibition of the work of all finalists at the end of the exhibition run.[9]
All work in the exhibition is available for sale.[4]
- 2012: Guest judge Maura Reily[10]
- Major Prize Winner – Heath Franco
- Highly Commended – Agatha Gothe-Snape
- Highly commended – Sam Cranstoun[4]
- Highly commended – Genevieve Kemarr Loy
- 2013: Guest judge Roslyn Oxley; Peter McKay, Curator of QAGOMA[broken anchor], was on the finalists committee. Only 32 finalists were selected and included in the exhibition at GUAG,[4] which was the smallest ever number until then.[5][6]
- 2014: Guest judge Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director of ARTSPACE Visual Arts Centre in Sydney; 42 finalists[11]
- 2015: Michaela Gleave[12]
- 2016:
- Major Prize: Sara Morawetz
- Special Commendation: Lisa Sammut & David Greenhalgh
- Guest judge Kelly Gellatly, Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne[3]
- 2017:
- Major Prize: Pierre Mukeba
- Special Commendation: Hayley Millar-Baker
- 2018:
- Major Prize: Caroline Gasteen
- Special Commendation: Jimmy Nuttall
- 2019:
- Major Prize: Nadia Hernández
- Special Commendation - Ben Soedradjit
- 2020:
- Major Prize - Emily Parsons-Lord
- Special Commendation - Nabliah Nordin
- 2021: Guest judge Rhana Devenport ONZM, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia;[9] exhibition curated by Grace Herbert.[13]
- Major prize (A$15,000) – Nina Sanadze, Georgian-born artist now living in Melbourne, for Apotheosis, s sculptural work[9]
- Special Commendation Prize (A$5,000) – Kyra Mancktelow, based in Brisbane[9]
- Commendation (A$1,000) – Riana Head-Toussaint, based in Sydney[9]
- Commendation (A$1,000) – Visaya Hoffie, based in Brisbane[9]
- 2022:
- Major Prize Winner - Emmaline Zanelli for Dynamic Drills
- Special Commendation - Emma Buswell, for There's nothing unlawful about going for a run and eating a kebab
- 2023:
- Major prize - Joel Sherwood Spring, for Diggermode
- Special Commendation - Debbie Taylor Worley, for Earth and Water, Let There Be Trees'
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