A.M.E Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize

The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize is awarded biennially to Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles. This includes realist, figurative and representational styles. Alice Marian Ellen Bale (1875-1955) developed a profile as one of Australia’s pre-eminent flower and still life painters of the early 20th century. She established the A.M.E Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize through her will to support Australian artists in perpetuity. The A.M.E Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize is managed by the Perpetual Trustee Company, as the trustee of the Alice Marian Ellen Bale Art Foundation Trust.

The Art Prize is intended to encourage, support and advance classical training of emerging artists (in their early to mid-career) at any stage of life, who are pursuing the study and practice of traditional art and who desire to study the works of old masters.

These awards include a traveling scholarship which enables Australian artists to study the works of the old masters abroad. The biennial judging of the A.M.E. Bale Traveling Scholarship and associated prizes for  Oil/Acrylic and “Works on Paper”, is carried out solely by members of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.