Bendigo Art Gallery
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Bendigo Art Gallery in Bendigo, founded in 1887, is one of Australia
’s oldest and largest regional art galleries. The Bendigo Art Gallery hosts Australia's richest open painting prize, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, worth $50,000, which was launched in 2003.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
’s oldest and largest regional art galleries. The Bendigo Art Gallery hosts Australia's richest open painting prize, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, worth $50,000, which was launched in 2003.
Prizes
- Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize
- Paul GuestPaul GuestPaul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.When he was twelve, Paul broke the third and fourth vertebrae in his neck in a bicycle accident, bruising his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the neck down. He is a quadriplegic. He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and from...
Prize - Robert JacksRobert JacksRobert Jacks is an Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker.Born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied sculpture from 1958 to 1960 at the Prahran Technical College, Melbourne, and painting in 1961 and 1962 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology .In 1966 he had his first solo exhibition at...
Drawing Prize (past prize)