The John McCaughey Prize,
also known as the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize,
McCaughey Prize, McCaughey Art Prize or McCaughey Art Award, is an
Australian art
Australian art is a broad spectrum of art created in or about Australia, or by Australians overseas, spanning from Prehistory of Australia, prehistoric times to the present day. The art forms include, but are not limited to, Indigenous Australi ...
prize awarded to an artist or artists, under which the
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and list of most visited art museums in the world, most visited art mu ...
and the
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most import ...
acquire work by the winning artist.
The John McCaughey Memorial Prize was instituted by Mona McCaughey in 1957, to commemorate her father John, an Irish-born pastoral industry investor who had died in
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
on 20 June 1928. John was the younger brother of Sir
Samuel McCaughey
Sir Samuel McCaughey (1 July 1835 – 25 July 1919) was an Irish-born pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia.
Early life
McCaughey was born on 1 July 1835 at Tullynewey, near Ballymena, Ireland, the son of Francis McCaughey, ...
, also a pastoralist.
Two prizes were established, one in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
(administered through the National Gallery of Victoria) and one in Sydney (administered through the Art Gallery of New South Wales). It is awarded periodically, typically every few years. As an acquisitive prize, it enables the National Gallery of Victoria to acquire works from each of the winning artists.
The prize fund is held by the John McCaughey Memorial Prize Trust.
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Recipients
*1957 (inaugural prize)
*1958 John Perceval
John de Burgh Perceval AO (1 February 1923 – 15 October 2000) was a well-known Australian artist. Perceval was the last surviving member of a group known as the Angry Penguins who redefined Australian art in the 1940s. Other members includ ...
(John McCaughey Prize, NGV)
*1959 or 1960 Sali Herman
Sali Herman (12 February 1898 – 3 April 1993) was a Swiss-born Australian artist, one of Australia's Official War Artists for the Second World War.
Life and career
Herman arrived in Melbourne in 1937 and enlisted in the Australian Army in ...
(John McCaughey Prize, NGV)
*1965 Gil Jamieson
*1966 Ian Fairweather
Ian Fairweather (29 September 189120 May 1974) was a Scottish painter resident in Australia for much of his life. He combined Western and Asian influences in his work.
Life
Ian Fairweather was born in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland i ...
*1966 Fred Williams[
*1971 ]Lloyd Rees
Lloyd Frederic Rees (17 March 18952 December 1988) was an Australian landscape Painting, painter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings.
Most of Rees's works are preoccupied with depicting the effects of light and emphasis ...
(John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV)
*1975 Geoffrey Proud (John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV)
*1975 John Firth-Smith (McCaughey Memorial Prize, NGV)
*1981 John Hopkins (artist) (John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV)
*1983 Craig Gough (John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV)
*1986 Ann Thomson
Ann Thomson (born 1933) is an Australian painter and sculptor. She is best known for her large-scale public commissions ''Ebb Tide'' (1987) for the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre and ''Australia Felix'' (1992) for the Seville World Expo ...
(John McCaughey Award, AGNSW)
*1990 Rover Thomas
Rover Thomas Joolama (1926 – 11 April 1998), commonly known as simply Rover Thomas, was a Wangkajunga and Kukatja Aboriginal Australian artist.
Early life
Rover Thomas was born in 1925 near Gunawaggii, at Well 33 on the Canning Stock Rout ...
(John McCaughey Prize, AGNSW)[Galeria Aniela]
artist biography
retrieved July 2007
*2004 Three joint winners (John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV):
Jan Nelson
Jan Nelson (born 1955) is an Australian artist who works in sculpture, photography and painting. She is best known for her hyper real images of adolescents. She has exhibited widely in Australia as well as Paris and Brazil. Her works are in the c ...
from Melbourne,
Marie Hagerty from Canberra
Paul Wrigley from Brisbane
*2008 Gareth Sansom
Gareth Sansom (born 19 November 1939) is an Australian artist, painter, printmaker and collagist and winner of the 2008 John McCaughey Memorial Prize of $100,000.
Best known for introducing new themes and subject-matter into Australian art a ...
(John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV, $100,000)[
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References
External links
National Gallery of Victoria
{{Australianartawards
Australian visual arts awards
Awards established in 1957
1957 establishments in Australia