The 57th Blake Prize


Exhibitions - 1951-2008


Past winners of the Blake Prize for Religious Art:

Year

Winner

Title

Media

Judges

2009Angelica MesitiRapture (silent anthem)VideoDel Kathryn Barton
Stephen Crittenden
Andrew Frost
2008David TuckerA Local Girl Comes HomeCeramic, wood, linen and inkLachlan Warner
Dr Kathleen McPhillips
Nick Vickers
2007Shirley PurdieStations of the CrossOchre and pigment on canvasRev. Dr. Jione Havea
Jennifer Isaacs AM
Lindy Lee
2006Euan MacleodUntitled Landscape with FigureOil on canvasBernard Ollis
Rev’d Canon Ivan Head
Richard Goodwin

2005James Powditch

Louise Rippert
God is in the Detail (Intelligent Design)
Dance
Mixed media


Glassine Paper, Nylon Thread, ALuminium
Wayne Tunnicliffe
Rosemary Valadon
Acharya Ram Sivan

2004AñA WojakPieta (Dafur)Oils and gold leaf on galvanised ironAssociate Professor Margot Hillel OAM
Henry Mulholland
Reverend Douglas Purnell

2003Shoufay DerzLinking Back (Part 1)Lamda PrintsJudith Carroll
Jeffrey Kamins
Hilarie Mais
Nick Vickers

2002Hilton McCormickThe Harvestoil & mixed mediaJulie Rrap
Wendy Sharpe
Con Gouriotis
A/Prof Michael Griffith
Dr Phillip Kent

2001Lachlan Warner'Vitrine of lightweight (Sunyata),
disposable (annica) Buddhas, in a range of festivecolours, postures and mudras

mixed media
Dr Betty Churcher
Marion Borgelt
Dr Ian Weeks

2000Frances BelleParkerThe Journeyacrylic oil oncanvasFr Anthony Kelly
Ross Mellick
Imants Tillers

1998John AdairOne Dark Night(from St John of the Cross Poem Dark Night of the Soul')auto enamel onaluminiumSarah Mitchell
Hetti Perkins
Ken Unsworth

1997Thomas SpenceChristmas Day1914 (God's Truce)graphite onpaperDr Carole Cusack
Margaret Olley
Nick Waterlow

1996Rachel EllisWoman at Jesus'feetcharcoal andacrylicLou Klepac
Fr James Murray
Peter Powditch

1995George GittoesThe Preacher- Kibeho
Massacre Series, Rwanda
oil on canvasRabbi RaymondApple
Dinah Dysart
Ann Graham

1994Hilarie MaisVeiling Silencewood and oilpaintDr Rosemary Crumlin
Janet Laurence
Anne Loxley

1993John DavisSome Thoughtson a Miracleeucalyptus twigs,paper, calico, bondcrete, bituminous paintLou Klepac
Alun Leach-Jones
Rev Dr Dorothy McRae-McMahon

1992George GittoesAncient Prayeroil on canvasRev Rod Pattenden
Guy Warren
Bill Wright

1991Alan Oldfield Rosemary Valadon

Raft III
Before the Fall
oil, acrylic,paintstick on canvas

oil on wood
Elwyn Lynn
Dr David Millikan
Ursula Prunster

1990Gillian MannThe Chestwoodcut on paperEileen Chanin
Rosemary Madigan
Canon Albert McPherson

1989Warren BreningerHail Marydiptych mixedmedia on boardAnthony Bradley
Patricia Brennan
Alun Leach-Jones

1988Lise FloistadThis sign isa hidden treasure which desires to be knownoil and goldleaf on canvas
John Coburn
Patrician Bennan
Joan Kerr

1987lan Grant
Alan Oldfield
The Monks Cloak A High and perpetualshewing of Christ's mother according to Julian of Norwich

acrylic on cottonduckAlun Leach-Jones
1986Roger AkininThe Day of Atonement,Scapegoat and Apostate Rev Peter Bennie
Rev Anthony Corcoran
Colin Lanceley
Stephen Mori
Joy Roggenkamp

1985John GouldVotives to Passionoil and mixedmediaRev David Binns
Chris Gentle
Elwynn Lynn
Rev Julian Miller
Ann Thomson

1984Mary HallThe Spirit ofGod hovered brooding over the face of the watersmosaicTom Bass
Rev Peter Bennie
Rev Dr Hugh Cairns
Barry Pearce
Lloyd Rees

1983Geoffrey Harvey Ann TaylorThe Offering
collage and mixedmedia
natural materials
Colin Lanceley
Rev Dr Graeme Ferguson
Terence Maloon
Stanislaus Rapotec
Rev John Thorne

1982Mary Anne CouttsSuzie MarstonIn Mockery ofChrist
Sunday School Work Books
acrylic on canvasSydney Ball
Canon Ian George
Joan Kerr
Rev Julian Miller
Treania Smith

1981David VoigtEaster in MyRoomacrylic on canvas
triptych, oil on hardboard
Clive Evatt
Col Jordon
Mother Evangeline Kendall
Elwynn Lynn
Professor Eric Sharpe

1980Leonard FrenchInstruments fora Drama
Meditation
enamel on jutecanvas mounted on hardboardRev Peter Bennie
Charles Blackman
Rev Dr David Coffey
John Firth-Smith
Barry Pearce

1979Ian Gentle
Alex Trompf
Roadside AltarPiece Comas Rev Dr GraemeFerguson
Canon Ian George
Frank Hinder
Virginia Spate
Guy Warren

1978Noel TunksThe First FridayRetreat