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 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, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum.
The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...
and the
Art Gallery of New South Wales 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 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/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
(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 include ...
(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
Gil Jamieson (31 January 1934 – 14 June 1992) was an Australian painter. Jamieson was born in the central Queensland town of Monto in 1934 and died there in 1992.
Career
Jamieson liked to be thought of as a Romantic. He objected to the la ...
*1966 Ian Fairweather
*1966 Fred Williams[
*1971 ]Lloyd Rees
Lloyd Frederic Rees (17 March 18952 December 1988) was an Australian landscape 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 is placed o ...
(John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV)
*1975 Geoffrey Proud
Geoffrey Robert Proud, although having had no formal training, held his first solo exhibition at the age of sixteen, and has had his work exhibited in all states with over 80 solo exhibitions and in excess of 100 group exhibitions to his credit. ...
(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 (John McCaughey Award, AGNSW)
*1990 Rover Thomas
Rover Thomas Joolama (1926 – 11 April 1998), known as Rover Thomas, was a Wangkajunga and Kukatja Aboriginal Australian artist.
Early life
Rover Thomas was born in 1926 near Gunawaggii, at Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route, in the Grea ...
(John McCaughey Prize, AGNSW)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 ...
(John McCaughey Memorial Prize, AGNSW)
*1994 Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV)Jon Cattapan
Jon Cattapan (born 1956) is an Australian visual artist best known for his abstract oil paintings of cityscapes, his service as the 63rd Australian war artist and his work as a professor of visual art at the University of Melbourne in the Facu ...
(John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV)
*1997 Gordon Bennett[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 ...
(John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, NGV, $100,000)[
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References
External links
National Gallery of Victoria
{{Australianartawards
Australian art awards
Awards established in 1957
1957 establishments in Australia