VAS Portrait Exhibition 2022
12 Aug 2022 – 22 Aug 2022
Opening Night, Tuesday 16 August at 7pm
Location: Frater, McCubbin & Hammond Galleries
This annual exhibition, featuring the Nada Hunter Portraiture Award celebrates portraiture in all genres. An inspiring array of talent by some of Victoria’s emerging and established artists skillfully capturing the human spirit. The Nada Hunter Prizes are for: 1st prize, $1000. 2nd prize, $200. 3rd prize $150.
The Judge for this year's Portrait Exhibition was 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.
FIRST PRIZE WINNER
Gwendoline Krumins VAS—'Mrs Brown'
SECOND PRIZE WINNER
THIRD PRIZE WINNER
Keming Shen VAS—'Purple Dress'
HIGHLY COMMENDED ARTWORKS
Elly Abrat—'Alison in Uniform'
Joseph Luczynski VAS—'Self-Portrait'
Maria Radun—'Secrets'
Rachel Dettmann Smith VAS—'Portrait of Kitty'
Laurel Sloan—'Lady'
Banner Image: 'Mrs Brown', Oil by Gwendoline Krumins, Portraiture Winner 2022
'Peter Hunter', Oil by Peter Roccella, Second Prize Winner 2022
'Purple Dress', Oil by Keming Shen VAS, Third Prize Winner 2022
Acknowledgment of traditional owners.
We would like to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which our building stands, their leaders, past, present and emerging.