- Blake Prize for Religious Art
The Blake Prize for Religious Art is an annual
art prize inAustralia .Cite web|url=http://www.artreview.com.au/art/collecting/feature-blake-prize.aspx|title=Feature: Blake Prize|accessdate=2007-08-02|publisher=Australian Art Review|month=November | year=2005|author=Rebecca Somerville|work=Contemporary] The prize was established in1949 as an incentive to raise the standard ofreligious art , founded by Mr R. Morley, the Reverend Michael Scott SJ, Rector of Newman College,University of Melbourne , and lawyer Mrs M. Tenison. It was named after theartist andpoet William Blake . The first Blake Prize was won byJustin O'Brien in1951 . The Blake Exhibitions have been a regular travelling exhibition around Australia, visiting various major cities and provincial galleries. The award of the Blake Prize toCharles Bannon in1954 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. The prize is administered by the Blake Society.List of winners
*1951
Justin O'Brien - The Virgin Enthrone
*1952Frank Hinder - Flight into Egypt
*1953Michael Kmit - The Evangelist John Mark
*1954Charles Bannon - Judas Iscariot
*1955Donald Friend - St John and Scenes from the Apocalypse
*1956Eric Smith - The Scourged Christ
*1957Elwynn Lynn - Betrayal
*1958Eric Smith - The Moment Christ Died
*1959Eric Smith - Christ is Risen
*1960John Coburn - Triptych of the Passion
*1961Stanislaus Rapotec - Meditating on Good Friday
*1962Eric Smith - Eucharistic Landscape
*1963Leonard French - Ancient Fragments
*1964Michael Kitching - Last Supper-Premonition
*1965Asher Bilu - I Form Light and Create Darkness-Isaiah 45:7
*1966Rodney Milgate - Ascension
*1967Desiderius Orban - Hosanna
*1968Roger Kemp - The Cross
*1969Eric Smith - The Apostles Creed
*1970Roger Kemp - Denial &Eric Smith - Christ's Flesh: Living, Suffering and Resurrected
*1971Desiderius Orban - Transition to Christianity
*1972Joseph Szabo - Black Friday
*1973Keith Looby - Your Motel Calvary Still Life Flowers
*1974Stuart Maxwell - Christ at Emmaus &Ken Whisson - Tobias and the Angel
*1975Rodney Milgate - Thoughts on Holy Thursday
*1976David Voigt - Blue Requiem
*1977John Coburn - Hozanna &Rodney Milgate - Tree
*1978Noel Tunks - The First Friday Retreat
*1979Ian Gentle Alex Trompf - Roadside Altar Piece Comas
*1980Leonard French - Instruments for a Drama Meditation
*1981David Voigt - Easter in My Room
*1982Mary Anne Coutts - In Mockery of Christ &Suzie Marston Sunday School Work Books
*1983Geoffrey Harvey Ann Taylor - The Offering
*1984Mary Hall - The Spirit of God hovered brooding over the face of the waters
*1985John Gould - Votives to Passion
*1986Roger Akinin - The Day of Atonement, Scapegoat and Apostate
*1987lan Grant - The Monks Cloak &Alan Oldfield - A High and perpetual shewing of Christ's mother according to Julian of Norwich
*1988Lise Floistad - This sign is a hidden treasure which desires to be known
*1989Warren Breninger - Hail Mary
*1990Gillian Mann - The Chest
*1991Alan Oldfield - Raft III &Rosemary Valadon - Before the Fall
*1992George Gittoes - Ancient Prayer
*1993 John Davis - Some Thoughts on a Miracle
*1994Hilarie Mais - Veiling Silence
*1995George Gittoes - The Preacher - Kibeho Massacre Series, Rwanda
*1996Rachel Ellis - Woman at Jesus' feet
*1997Thomas Spence - Christmas Day 1914 (God's Truce)
*1998John Adair - One Dark Night (from St John of the Cross Poem Dark Night of the Soul')
*2000Frances Belle Parker - The Journey
*2001Lachlan Warner - 'Vitrine of lightweight (Sunyata), disposable (annica) Buddhas, in a range of festive colours, postures and mudras
*2002Hilton McCormick - The Harvest
*2003Shoufay Derz - Linking Back (Part 1)
*2004AñA Wojak - Pieta (Dafur)
*2005James Powditch - God is in the Details (Intelligent Design)
*2005Louise Rippert - Dance
*2006Euan Macleod - Untitled Landscape with Figure
*2007Shirley Purdie - Stations of the CrossReferences
External links
* [http://www.blakeprize.com.au/ Blake Prize website]
* [http://www.blakeprize.com.au/exhibitions/2007 Blake Prize - winners 2007]ee also
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Phoenix Prize for spiritual art
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