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. First awarded in 1998, it is the successor event to the ''Spring Festival of Drawing'' and the ''Prints Acquisitive''. The award is made biennially, except during the years 1998 to 2000, and 2002 to 2004, when it was made annually. The award and its concomitant exhibition are hosted by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, located in Mornington,

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. In 2008, the total prize pool of the National Works on Paper award was worth A$45,000 and had three components: *The John Tallis Acquisitive Award, valued at A$15,000; *The Mornington Peninsula Regional Shire Acquisition Fund awards, valued at up to A$20,000; and *The Friends of the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Acquisition Fund awards, valued at up to A$10,000.

Winners (major award only)

*1998 -

Christopher Hodges Christopher Hodges is an artist and director of Utopia Art Sydney a contemporary art gallery in Australia. Artistic career Hodges studied art at the Alexander Mackie CAE graduating with a Dip Art (Ed) and first began exhibiting his work in the l ...

*1999 - Jennifer Buntine *2000 - Matthew Butterworth *2002 - eX de Medici *2003 -

Lisa Roet Lisa Roet (born 1967) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Melbourne. She studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 2005 she received the McClelland Sculpture Prize. The sculpture, ''White Ape'', is now part of the co ...

*2004 -

Paul Boston Paul Boston (born 1952) is an Australian artist. Life and work Paul Boston was born in Melbourne in 1952. While with at art school he developed an interest in Zen. After graduating, Boston travelled to Japan and South East Asia, where he spe ...

*2006 -

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 ...

*2008 -

Danie Mellor Danie Mellor (born 13 April 1971) is an Australian artist who was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Born in Mackay, Queensland, Mellor grew up in Scotland, Australia, and South Africa before undertaki ...

*2010 - Richard Lewer *2014 - Jess Johnson

References

External links

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery website

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery - 2008 NWOP Award

MPRG - NWOP Past Exhibitions
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