William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize exhibition to open at MAPh this weekend

The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize exhibition is ready to open this weekend on the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), and can have fun the prize’s Twentieth anniversary with a document $50,000 award for the eventual winner who might be introduced on Thursday 18 September 6.30pm – 8.30pm.

The prize celebrates excellence in up to date nonetheless pictures, welcoming submissions from artists throughout Australia working with each analogue and digital photo-based media produced within the final 12 months.

Established in 2006 by way of a foundational reward from the Bowness Family Foundation, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has grown over 20 years to turn out to be one in all Australia’s most prestigious artwork awards.

From its origins as a $10,000 award, it has developed right into a nationally vital survey of the medium, recognised for its open and inclusive method that welcomes each rising and established artists throughout all types of nonetheless pictures, making its annual exhibition of finalists a significant snapshot of up to date Australian photographic apply.

The judging panel consisting of celebrated artist Anne Zahalka, Shaune Lakin, and MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea confronted the difficult job of choosing the ultimate discipline of fifty pictures from over 750 entries.

The landmark Twentieth-anniversary 12 months sees a collection of serious adjustments designed to additional help artists. The prize pool has been elevated due to a considerable philanthropic reward from the Bowness Family Foundation. In addition to the $50,000 grand prize, two honourable mentions will obtain $2,500 every. For the primary time, all shortlisted artists may also be paid mortgage charges for the exhibition of their works.

“These changes, enabled by the Bowness Family Foundation, reinforce the prominence of the prize and cement the importance of photography into the future,” a spokesperson for the MAPh Foundation acknowledged.

All finalists are additionally eligible for the Wai Tang Commissioning Award. This $10,000 award, an initiative of the MAPh Foundation, is given to 1 artist to develop and exhibit a brand new physique of labor on the following 12 months’s Bowness Photography Prize exhibition.

The public may also have the chance to take part by choosing a winner for the $5,000 Community Bank Pinewood People’s Choice Award. Voting will start on the opening of the finalist exhibition and will be solid each in individual on the museum and on-line.

The winners might be introduced at  Museum of Australian Photography on Thursday 18 September 6.30pm – 8.30pm.
You can RSVP here to register for the occasion.

You can see extra in regards to the historical past of the Bowness Photography Prize and view previous finalists here.

And you may see the finalists images here.

Finalists are as listed:
Hoda Afshar, Riste Andrievski, Lilah Benetti, Jane E Brown, Jane Burton, Isabella Capezio, Dave Carswell, Zoё Croggon, Zo Damage, J Davies, Gerwyn Davies, Tamara Dean, Rianon Dillon, Ella Dreyfus, Stephen Dupont, Odette England, Guy Grabowsky, Yvette Hamilton, Siri Hayes, Anna Higgins, Naomi Hobson, Ingvar Kenne, Nur Aishah Abdullah Farid Kenton, Shea Kirk, Thomas Ling, Morganna Magee, Sean McKenzie, Gerrie Mifsud, Kent Morris, Phuong Nguyen Le, Kojiro Oishi, SEANOKKAI., Jill Orr, Sonia Payes, Stanislava Pinchuk, Izabela Pluta, Zorica Purlija, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Sarah Rhodes, Elvis Richardson, Jessica Schwientek, Dean Sewell, Ali Tahayori, Cyrus Tang, James Tylor, Justine Varga, Pete Volich, Kai Wasikowski, Wei Weng and Meng-Yu Yan.