Portia Geach Memorial Award, Founder and President, New South Wales Housewives’ Association
Portia Swanston Geach (24 December 1873, Melbourne – 5 October 1959, Sydney) was an Australian artist and feminist. She was a founder and a president of the New South Wales Housewives' Association, as well as a president of the Federal Association of Australian Housewives.[1] The Portia Geach Memorial Award, established by a legacy from Geach's sister, is Australia's most significant prize for Australian female portrait artists.[2]
^Wright, Andrée, "Geach, Portia Swanston (1873–1959)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 23 January 2020
^"Christine Hiller – 2009 Portia Geach Memorial Award Winner". www.girl.com.au. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
Portia Swanston Geach (24 December 1873, Melbourne – 5 October 1959, Sydney) was an Australian artist and feminist. She was a founder and a president...
The PortiaGeach Memorial Award is an annual prize for Australian female portraitists. The Award was established in 1961 as a testamentary trust by Florence...
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Finlay left acting to be a painter. She has had several portraits in the PortiaGeach Memorial Award. In 2006 her portrait of Hugo Weaving was hung in the...
She became a full time artist in 2012. She has been a finalist in the PortiaGeach Memorial Award three times (highly commended in 2014), a finalist in...
Regional Gallery, for her portrait "Ella Rubeli" 2012: PortiaGeach Memorial Award 2019: PortiaGeach Memorial Award 2021: Kennedy Prize, for "Bruce Squared"...
art prizes: Archibald Prize – Art Gallery of NSW (2017, 2018, 2019) PortiaGeach Memorial Award – S.H. Ervin Gallery (2018, 2019, 2020) The Lester Prize...
359 2016. The PortiaGeach Memorial Award, S. H. Ervin Gallery, in 2008 for Self Portrait 2008 (The Year My Husband Left). The PortiaGeach Memorial Award...
Brassington in 2017 was painted by Amanda Davies. She won Australia's PortiaGeach Memorial Award for women artists, for a portrait painted from life of...
of linocut print and oil painting. She is a three-time winner of the PortiaGeach Memorial Award, a portraiture prize for Australian women artists, and...
Jacqui Clark named Meeting Rosie Batty, which was selected for the 2015 PortiaGeach Memorial Award. In October 2018 Batty was named in the social enterprise...
has been a finalist four times (in 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2016) in the PortiaGeach Memorial Award. She has been a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait...
Archibald Prize in 1996 with Self Portrait – as Diana of Erskineville, PortiaGeach Memorial Award twice in 1995 with Self Portrait with Students – After...
with 115,000 members. In 1941 there was a disagreement. Ex President PortiaGeach and four others were expelled from the organisation by Eleanor Glencross...
finalist), Cardinal Edward Clancy (1998 PortiaGeach Memorial Award finalist), journalist Paddy McGuinness (2003 PortiaGeach Memorial Award finalist), and Justice...
Ervin Gallery, Sydney – PortiaGeach Memorial Award – ‘ ‘Face it – John Waters’ - S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney – PortiaGeach Memorial Award Reginald Blanch...
photographer and photography educator Ivy Shore (1915–1999): painter, winner of PortiaGeach Memorial Award Andrew Sibley (1933–2015): English-born artist Allan F...
visited them. Hanke was one of the five artists Ivy Shore (winner of the PortiaGeach Memorial Art Award in 1979) called her "Inspirations". Ivy Shore's painting...
printmaking. She has won numerous awards including Fleurieu Art Prize, The PortiaGeach Portrait Prize, The Mosman Art Prize, and The Tattersalls Art Prize....
including the Archibald, Doug Moran and Sulman prizes as well as the PortiaGeach Memorial Award in Sydney. Bezor was born on 5 April 1950 in Adelaide...
her portraits were finalists in the Archibald Prize and she won the PortiaGeach Memorial Award in 1967. Caddy produced portraits of several notable Australian...
2010, artist Melissa Beowulf entered her portrait of Spencer in the PortiaGeach Memorial Award, which reached the finals. Spencer has commented on his...
for her service within Australia. In 2010, she was a finalist in the PortiaGeach Memorial Award with a portrait of comedian Adam Spencer. She was also...
Prize in 1976 (The Cup of Tea) and 1991/92 (The Seven Deadly Isms), the PortiaGeach Memorial Award (1977: Damian White - Author; 1978: Dr. Brian Freeman;...
Baker, Alice Bale, Emma Minnie Boyd, Alice Chapman, Florence Fuller, PortiaGeach, Ina Gregory, Grace Joel, Dora Meeson, Mary Meyer, Josephine Muntz Adams...
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