Entries for Castlemaine Art Museum’s Len Fox Painting Award must close in six weeks.
The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. The Len Fox Painting Award and generous acquisitive cash prize of $50,000 is funded through a bequest from Mona Fox.
The Len Fox Painting Award recognises and promotes the work of Australian artists pursuing the artistic interests and qualities of E. P. Fox. These include engagement with colour and light; ambitious connections with international developments in art; and an interest in travel and an engagement with the cultures of diverse regions and peoples.
This is an acquisitive award, with the winning work becoming part of the Museum’s Art Collection.
The judges for this year’s award are artist John Wolseley and curator Emma Busowsky.
John Wolseley is one of Australia’s most important artists. His work in watercolour, drawing, printmaking and installation over the past 40 years has been a meditation on how the earth is a dynamic system, of which we are all a part.
Emma Busowsky is a curator and writer with specialisation in Australian art, exhibitions, collections and museums. Currently living and working on Dja Dja Wurrung Country as curator at Bendigo Art Gallery, Emma has worked in the Australian art museum sector since 2003 across curatorial and programming roles. Before her role at Bendigo Art Gallery, Emma was the curator at Castlemaine Art Museum, and before that, curator of the Deakin University art collection.
Entries close Sunday August 4. To enter visit castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/exhibitions/len-fox-award-2024
