Winners of the A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prizes announced

As trustee of the Alice Marian Ellen Bale Art Foundation Trust, we are pleased to announce Joshua McPherson as the winner of the prestigious A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship.

The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prizes are Australia’s premier awards for traditional realism and figurative art and are awarded to Australian artists who have demonstrated talent and achievement in traditional styles.

Joshua McPherson was awarded the major prize, a travelling scholarship valued at $40,000, which will enable him to combine travel, art and study. Two further prizes, worth $5,000 each, were awarded to Kieran Ingram and Regina Hona in the categories ‘works in oils and/or acrylics’ and ‘works on paper’ respectively.

The exhibition of finalists was held at Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne until 19 December, 2010.

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About the A.M.E. Bale and Art Foundation Trust

Alice Marian Ellen Bale was born in Melbourne in 1875 and studied art under Frederick McCubbin and L Bernard Hall at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne. She developed a reputation as a fine artist who distinguished herself as one of Australia's pre-eminent flower and still life painters of the early 20th century.

Miss Bale was the founding secretary of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society, a position that she held until her death in 1955. Through her will, she established the A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prizes, managed by Perpetual, to support Australian artists in perpetuity. Today, the tradition of A.M.E. Bale's relationship with Twenty Melbourne Painters Society is continued through the judging panel for the Art Prize.

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