Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award

Image: Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023, installation view. Photograph by Silversalt Photography.

Medium / category: Works on paper

Requirements: Entrants must submit an original work made on, or with paper mediums. Works must have been completed after 1 January 2024.

Eligibility: Open to artists living in Australia for the period 1 January 2023 – 30 June 2025.

Associated institution: Hazelhurst Arts Centre

Now in its thirteenth year, the biennial Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award is a significant national award totalling $26,000 that aims to elevate the status of work on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium. Open to original works made on, or with, paper mediums, which may include (but is not limited to) drawing, painting, watercolour, collage, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation and video. There are no size restrictions for the works entered into the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award.

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Awards

Awards include the $15,000 major award, the $5,000 Young and Early Career Artist Award, the $5,000 Friends of Hazelhurst Local Artist Award, and the $1,000 People’s Choice Award. Hazelhurst’s installation crew also select an artist for the Residency Award: a 4-week studio residency in the historic Hazelhurst Cottage.

Previous Judges
2023:

Deborah Kelly, Artist

2021:

Glenn Barkley, Artist and Curator

Maryanne Coutts, Head of Drawing, National Art School

2019:

Idris Murphy, Artist

Joan Ross, Artist

Oliver Watts, Artist and Head Curator, Art bank

2017:

Denise Mimmocchi, Senior Curator, Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Previous Winners and Finalists
2023:

David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, Eternal Return, 2023
Winner: Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award

Jenna Lee, Grass tree – growing together, 2022
Winner: Young & Early Career Artist Award

Christopher Lawrie, WHITE HISTORY (‘An introduction to Australian History’ by A. G. L. Shaw and H. D. Nicolson), 2023
Winner: Local Artist Award

Oliver Fontany, Oli at Lane Cove River 1, 2022
Winner: Preparator’s Residency Award

All finalists were also awarded a Highly Commended Award, due to the high quality of all of the works.

2021:

Martin King, Strangerlands 11, 2022
Winner: Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award

Rachel Farag, Trick of the Light [Skinned Jesus], 2021
Winner: Young & Early Career Artist Award

Stephanie Monteith, Night Drawing, 2021
Winner: Local Artist Award

Kurt Sorensen, All things must have an end #1, 2020
Winner: Four Week Artist Residency Award

David Eastwood, Prop, 2021
Highly Commended

Emily Dabron, The Pangolin, 2021
Winner: People’s Choice Award

2019:

Robert Ewing, Chaos and Consequence, 2017
Winner: Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award

Belem Lett, Mountains of Madness, 2019
Winner: Young & Early Career Artist Award

Kerry Toomey, Mundhui, 2019
Joint Winner: Local Artist Award

Paul Williams, Painting ongoing, 2017-2019
Joint Winner: Local Artist Award

Kate Vassallo, Chance Forms, 2018
Winner: Four Week Artist Residency Award

2017:

Brian Robinson, Land Sea Sky – Charting our place in the universe, 2016
Winner: Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award

Harriet Body, Wet Season, Dry Season, 2017
Winner: Young and Early Career Art Award

Michelle Cawthorn, Daughter, 2017
Winner: Local Artist Award

Image: Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023, installation view. Photograph by Silversalt Photography.

Information up to date as of 1 April 2025.

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