The Gold Coast Art Prize is an annual acquisitive exhibition run by the

Gold Coast City Art Gallery The Gold Coast City Art Gallery was a regional Art museum located in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Opened in 1986, the Gallery was part of HOTA, Home of the Arts (formerly known as the Gold Coast Art Centre) whic ...

in the city of the

Gold Coast Gold Coast may refer to: Places Africa * Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana: ** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642) ** Dutch G ...

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ...

, Australia. One of Australia's oldest art prizes, it began in 1968 as the Gold Coast Art Prize but was known as the Conrad Jupiters Art Prize from 1990 to 2006 and as the Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Prize from 2007 to 2011. It has since reverted to its original name.

Prizewinners

Gold Coast Art Prize

*2014 Sonia Leber and

David Chesworth David Chesworth (born 1958, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom) is an Australian-based interdisciplinary artist and composer. Known for his experimental and at times minimalist music, he has worked solo, in post-punk groups (Essendon Airport, Whadya ...

for ''We are Printers too'' (video) *2013 Darren Wardle for ''Head Case Study 7'' *2012 Chris Bennie for ''The Western Fields'' (video)

Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize

*2011 Chris Langlois for ''Darkwood no. 19 2011'' *2010 Joe Furlonger for ''Bridge to Bribie'' *2009 Christopher Jones for ''the liver is the bucket kicked the rabbit'' *2008 Bruce Reynolds *2007 James Guppy

Conrad Jupiters Art Prize

*2006 Susan Buret *2005

Bernard Ollis Bernard Ollis (born 1951 in Bath, Somerset, Bath, England) is an Australian artist and painter who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. Ollis is the former director of the National Art School, Sydney. Born in Bath, England, Ollis is a graduate ...

*2004 Marie Hagerty *2003

Juan Ford ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

*2002 *2001 Stephen Hart *2000

Megan Walch Megan Walch (born Tasmania 1967) is a contemporary Australian painter. Biography Walch graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, 1989 and was the recipient of an Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship in ...

*1999 Barbie Kjar, Dean Bowen (sculpture) *1998 *1997 Lorna Fencer Napurrula *1995 *1994 Guan Wel for ''The Great War of the Eggplants No 2''

Gold Coast Art Prize

*1977 Basil Hadley *1976 *1975 Robert Dickerson *1972 *1971 Jeff Makin *1970 Andrew Sibley *1969

Jon Molvig Helge Jon Molvig (27 May 1923 – 15 May 1970) was an Australian expressionist artist, considered a major developer of 20th-century Australian expressionism, even though his career 'only' lasted 20 years. He was born in the Newcastle, New South ...

for ''Tree of Man X'' *1968 Michael Taylor for ''Overnight Sleeper'' * John Coburn * Lawrence Daws

References

External links

Australian art awards Awards established in 1968 1968 establishments in Australia Culture of Gold Coast, Queensland {{art-award-stub