15
Nov
2023
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE VAS PORTRAIT EXHIBITION 2022
PRESENTATION OF THE NADA HUNTER PORTRAITURE PRIZES
Viewing until Monday 22 August 2022 Frater, McCubbin & Hammond Galleries
Nada Hunter, Self portrait
NADA HUNTER 1918–2005
Nada Hunter was well known in artistic circles, especially through the Victorian Artists Society to whom she left several legacies for the benefit of artists.
Nada was born in Donald in 1918 but spent most of her life in Camberwell in Melbourne.
She studied for a year at the Teachers College, University of Melbourne and joined the WAAF at the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. Nada was engaged as an intelligence analyst throughout SE Asia, and she continued in this highly secretive work after the war in Intelligence Signals and Communications based at Albert Park.
Nada's paintings are full of spontaneity and her joyous high keyed palette places her firmly in the modernist movement. She was a regular exhibitor with the Victorian Artists Society from 1952 and member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors since 1982.
Source: Bridget McDonnell Gallery
Last night the Victorian Artists Society officially opened the VAS Portrait Exhibition 2022 and presented the Nada Hunter Portraiture prizes.
The Exhibition features the Nada Hunter Portraiture prizes for: 1st prize, $1000. 2nd prize, $200. 3rd prize $150.
The Portrait Exhibition was judged by celebrated figurative and portrait artist, Lewis Miller. Lewis is represented by 'Australian Galleries'.
Highly celebrated figurative and still life painter Lewis Miller was born in Melbourne in 1959 and trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, where he also completed his post graduate studies.
He exhibits regularly at Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney and at Bruce Heiser Projects in Brisbane.
Lewis Miller's upcoming solo exhibition will be on at Australian Galleries, 28 Derby Street, Collingwood from 25 August until 17 September 2022.
Learn more about Lewis Miller here. https://australiangalleries.com.au/artists/lewis-miller/
Gwendoline Krumins VAS with her portrait of 'Mrs Brown', in oil
Winner of the Nada Hunter Portraiture 1st prize
VAS PORTRAIT EXHIBITION 2022 WINNERS
VAS PORTRAIT EXHIBITION 2022 FIRST PRIZE
Gwendoline Krumins VAS—'Mrs Brown', Oil
Winner of the Nada Hunter Portraiture 1st prize
VAS PORTRAIT EXHIBITION 2022 SECOND PRIZE
Peter Roccella—'Peter Hunter', Oil on Canvas
Winner of the Nada Hunter Portraiture 2nd prize
VAS PORTRAIT EXHIBITION 2022 THIRD PRIZE
Keming Shen VAS—'Purple Dress', Oil
Winner of the Nada Hunter Portraiture 3rd prize
Peter Roccella (right) receiving the Nada Hunter Portraiture 2nd prize for his portrait of 'Peter Hunter' from the Judge of the Portrait Exhibition Lewis Miller.
Peter Roccella—'Peter Hunter', Oil on Canvas
Winner of the Nada Hunter Portraiture 2nd prize
Keming Shen VAS — 'Purple Dress', Oil
Winner of the Nada Hunter Portraiture 3rd prize
HIGHLY COMMENDED ARTWORKS
Elly Abrat with her portrait of 'Alison in Uniform', in charcoal
Judge of the Portrait Exhibition Lewis Miller (left) presenting Joseph Luczynski VAS with his Highly Commended Award for his 'Self Portrait'.
Rodney Edelsten VAS with his portrait titled 'Self', in oil
Maria Radun with her portrait titled 'Secrets', Oil on Linen
Rachel Dettmann Smith VAS — 'Portrait of Kitty', Oil
Laurel Sloan — 'Lady', Oil
The Victorian Artists Society - VAS GALLERY
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