- Exhibition
Meroogal Women’s Art Prize exhibition 2014
This non-acquisitive art prize was established to celebrate the creativity of female artists of NSW. The Meroogal Women’s Art Prize invites female artists to respond to the house museum’s history, stories and fascinating collection and to create artworks that reflect Meroogal’s rich history of house that was handed down through four generations of women from one local family.
This year’s exhibition features 39 works by 34 artists from across the state.
Artworks range from photography, installation, print, ceramics, painting and sound and provide a new lens through which to view Meroogal’s story and history.
The finalists are:
- Gabrielle Adamik
- Jodie Barker
- Zara Collins
- Jill Darville
- Linda Dening
- Nicolette Eisdell
- Alex Falkiner
- Ariella Friend
- Anna Glynn (winner of the 2009 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize)
- Karen Golland
- Yvette Hamilton
- Maggie Hensel-Brown
- Bianca Jane
- Freya Jobbins
- Leahlani Johnson
- Brodie Jones
- Kathy Karas
- Helene Leane
- Helen Martin
- Tania Maria Mastroianni (winner of the 2011 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize)
- Hannah Morgan
- Sally Picker
- Jo Reid
- Sharnie Shield
- Susan Smith
- Kylie Stubbles
- Kerry Suttonberg
- Mabel Testa
- Jane Theau
- Jenny Tubby
- Arja Välimäki
- Katherine White
- Zan Wimberley
- Zoe Olivia Young
Winners announced
Sydney Living Museums is proud to announce the three winners of the 2014 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize:
First prize - $6000 and artist-in-residency placement at Bundanon Trust
Sharnie Shield, Collars in the afternoon
Second prize - $3000
Linda Dening, Let your hair down
Third prize - $1000
Nicolette Eisdell, The drawing room of Meroogal
The winners were announced at the opening of the exhibition held at Meroogal on Saturday 20 September 2014.
Free after general admission
Exhibition open 10.30am - 3.30pm, access by guided tour only
Tues 23 Sep – Sat 27 Sep
Tues 30 Sep – Sat 4 Oct
Then every Saturday from 11 Oct 2014 – 24 Jan 2015
Last day: Sunday 25 Jan 2015
Finalists' artworks
Alex Falkiner: Three spoons (on a Meroogal collection cake stand)
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Anna Glynn: Letters to Tot
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Ariella Friend: Patterns of Life
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Arja Valimaki: Pink Dream
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Bianca Jane: Meroogal Universe
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Brodie Jones: Inheritance
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Freya Jobbins: Miss H Meroogal
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Gabrielle Adamik: Mr Mason (series of 9 works)
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Hannah Morgan: Home (series of 3 photographs)
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Helen Leane: Footsteps of the past 1
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Helen Martin: Stitch by stitch tales from the table
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Jane Theau: June
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Jenny Tubby: Untitled (Meroogal)
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Jill Darville: There's a Kitchener in the house
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Jo Reid: Selfies at Meroogal
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Jodie Barker: Nest
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Karen Golland: Two parts flower
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Katherine White: Tottie's dream
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Kathy Karas: Aunty Dot's room
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Kerry Suttonberg: Drawing at Meroogal (series of three)
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Kylie Stubbles Chinoiserie
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Leahlani Johnson: Across exterior worlds
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Linda Dening: Let your hair down
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Mabel Testa: Glimpse of Time
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Maggie Hensel Brown: June Jane Joan
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Nicolette Eisdell: Drawing room at Meroogal
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Sally Picker: Kept for Good
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Sharnie Shield: Social engineering the architecture of lace, Meroogal
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Susan Smith: Homage - some rooms
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Tania Maria Mastroianni: The age of wisdom
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Yvette Hamilton:You're here #5
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Zan Wimberley: MaryMaryMary
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Zara Collins: Victorian vinaigrette neck piece
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Zoe Olivia Young: Jam Space
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Karen Golland: White on shades of light
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Zoe Olivia Young: Tot's mirror: reflections of a diary
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Yvette Hamilton: You're here #4
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
Nicolette Eisdell: Meroogal details
Finalist, Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2014.
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