Celebrate the best in Australian painting and drawing at the Waverley Art Prize 2024!

Waverley Council is proud to invite you at the 38th annual Waverley Art Prize celebrating excellence across the local arts community and greater Australian contemporary visual arts sector. This year’s judges are Julia Gutman, artist and Joan Ross, artist.

And the winners are….

• The 2024 Open Prize winner is Bronte Leighton-Dore for her painting Silent meeting, a blue sky, South Coast based on studies done in the Bermagui State Forrest.
• Highly Commended went to Christoper Zanko for the work Midday Brick House
• The Mayor’s Prize was awarded to Sophie Bray for Alone with a thousand eyes and Highly Commended went to Jasmine Mowbray for Arcadia
• The Local Prize was awarded to Lisa Patroni for Geometry of Echoes

Voting for the ‘People’s Choice’ prize is now open. You can register your vote online here: https://wwas.org.au/waverley-art-prize-2024/

Voting for the ‘People’s Choice’ prize continues for the duration of the exhibition with the winner announced at 3:30pm on Sunday 18 August in Bondi Pavilion Gallery.

Waverley Art Prize is presented in partnership with Waverley-Woollahra Art School, the longest running artist-run initiative in Waverley.

Times:

10am – 5pm

Friday 12 & Saturday 13 July 10am – 9pm

Accessibility Info:

• This is a ‘Hearing No Obstacle’ event.
• This is a ‘Language No Obstacle’ event.
• Click here for more information about accessibility at Bondi Festival.

Presented by:

The Waverley Art Prize is presented by Waverley Council in partnership with the Waverley Woollahra Art School, a much-loved Bondi institution providing quality arts education for children and adults. The Waverley Art Prize has been running since 1986 as a painting and drawing prize.