Michelle Hiscock and Jenny Rodgerson – Finalists in the 2023 Portia Geach Memorial Award

In News November 3, 2023

Image: Jenny Rodgerson  Self portrait with mudras  2023  oil on linen  165 x 107 cm

Congratulations to Michelle Hiscock and Jenny Rodgerson, who have been selected as a finalists in the 2023 Portia Geach Memorial Award.

Michelle Hiscock  The Listener (Christopher Lawrence, broadcaster musician and conductor)  oil on paper  29.5 x2 5.2cm

 

The Portia Geach Memorial Award is Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists. The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. The non-acquisitive prize is awarded by the Trustee for the entry which is of the highest artistic merit, ‘…for the best portrait painted from life of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences by after any female resident who was born in Australia or was British born or has become a naturalised Australian and whose place of domicile is Australia’.

The exhibition of finalists is now showing at the S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney until 17 December 2023

Visit our online stock rooms to view available paintings and works on paper by Michelle Hiscock and Jenny Rodgerson