Kedumba Drawing Award 2011
30 October to 30 November 2011
Open daily 11am to 4pm.
The 2011 Judge, David Naseby, selected eight drawings for the Kedumba Collection that will certainly enhance and enrich this public collection. In alphabetical order:
Liz Caffin
Top - tap, tap
Leigh Camilleri
Why are you here
Stephen Hall
The Kedumba Musings of Merry-Andrew the Limner No 8
Robert Hannaford
Puss Muriel Sandicock aged 102
Pamela Hourani
The Conspirators
Jocelyn Maughan
Fisherman Ð Storm Boy
Ken Searle
Shed Interior Broken Hill
Belinda Ward
Urban Duals
The following artists were invited to participate:
Honor Bradbeer
Liz Caffin
Leigh Cameleri
Louise Forthum
Ian Friend
Stephen Hall
Robert Hannaford
Kristin Headlam
Pamela Hourani
Stephen Lopes
Ron McBurnie
Angus McDonald
Noel McKenna
Guy Maestro
Jocelyn Maughan
Ted May
Lotje Meijer
Max Miller
Kathryn Orton
Mike Riley
Paul Ryan
Ken Searle
Belinda Ward
Spencer White
Kedumba Drawing Award 2010
31 October to 30 November 2010
Celebrating 21 Years
Open daily 11am to 4pm.
The 2010 judge, Peter Sharp, announced the winners of the 21st annual Kedumba Drawing Award. The full text of his speech can be found here. His selections were:
Alan Jones
Thats the way it is number 12 (Acrylic and collage on paper)
Adriane Strampp
Hare (in memory of Marcus) (Charcoal, pencil, graphite on Arches paper)
David Eastwood
Vantage Point (Graphite on paper)
Mary Tonkin
Cradle for Thing 2 Kalorama (Pencil on paper)
Cradle for Thing 1 Kalorama(Pencil on paper)
Suzanne Archer
Abattoir (Charcoal, ink and pastel on paper)
Annette Iggulden
From here to - to elsewhere (Mixed media on paper)
The following artists participated:
Suzanne Archer
Nicholas Blowers
Gina Bruce
David Eastwood
Rachel Ellis
Brad Hammond
Michael Herron
Rod Holdaway
Annette Iggulden
Sandra Jakeman
Alan Jones
Kerrie Lester
Lucy Martin
Nafisa Naomi
Vicki Parish
Amanda Penrose Hart
Adriane Strampp
Mary Tonkin
Thornton Walker
Ruth Waller
Trevor Weekes
Tim Winter
Ana Young
Kedumba Drawing Award 2009
The 2009 judge, Euan Macleod, announced the winners of the 20th annual Kedumba Drawing Award. The full text of his speech can be found here. His selections were:
David Fairbairn
D.G.No 6 (Mixed media)
Dagmar Cyrulla
Self Portrait
Ian Marr
Outside the Met (Charcoal on untreated canvas)
Derek Whitehead
The Music Makers (Charcoal, ink and pastel)
Adam Cullen
Pig man dog (Pen and ink)
Adrian Lockhart
Bather II (Mixed media)
The Director and Trustees, on the recommendation of Euan Macleod, acquired:
David Fairbairn
D.G.No 12 (Mixed media)
Dagmar Cyrulla
The Room (Pastel and gouache)
Dates for Kedumba Award 2009
October 26 to November 29
Open daily 11am to 4pm.
Kedumba Drawing Award 2008
The 2008 judge Jenny Sages announced the results of the nineteenth Kedumba Drawing Award on Saturday, October 25. Jenny during her speech said all the participating artists were winners but she had to select only what finances would allow. Her selections were:
Lewis Miller
"Allan Mitelman wearing a beret"
Richard Maurovic
"Ewes"
Di Fenwick
"New Direction Dreaming"
Katherine Hattam
"Rodchenko's teapot, Rosella Tomato Sauce & Diet Coke"
Peter Boggs
"Narrow View" (Laneway Series)
The Kedumba Trustees selected:
Joe Frost
"Fifteen sketchbook drawings"
Kedumba Drawing Award 2007
The 2007 judge Cherry Hood announced the results of the eighteenth Kedumba Drawing Award on Saturday, October 27. Cherry said it was not an easy task but her final decision in order was:
Anna Hoyle "Evangelical Goat Spruiks the Spartan Sports Power Tower"
Michael Zavros "Debaser / Dries Van Noten"
Tom Spence "Night Life II"
Selection by the Artist Trustees and Director:
George Gittoes "The blindfolded leading the blindfolded II"
Chris O'Doherty aka Reg Mombassa "Kengerewe with McCahonno Set"
Anonymous donor:
Peter Sharp "Windy Webs"
Read the speech by Cherry Hood, judge of the Kedumba Drawing Award 2007.
Read the speech by Justice Roddy Meagher AO, Guest of Honour at the Kedumba Drawing Award 2007.
The 2007 catalogue is now available online as a PDF file.
This year's award will be open to the public until December 2. Hours are 11am to 4pm daily.
The Kedumba Drawing Award was first presented in 1990, and is now considered the premier event for drawing in Australia.
It is a $20,000 acquisitive award for 24 invited artists.
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Kedumba Drawing Award 2006
The judge Janet Laurence announced the results of the seventeenth Kedumba Drawing Award on Saturday, October 28. Janet declared that it was a difficult decision as there were many works that would enhance the Kedumba Collection. Her final decision was as follows:
"Head self-portrait" by John Beard
"Meryl Tankard in Wuppertal" by Jenny Sages
"Unwish" by Jon Plapp
The Trustees selected and purchased another two drawings for the Collection:
"Glyphographic" by GW Bot
"Red XB" by Ben Quilty
Read the speech of Guest of Honour
Reg Livermore AO.
The Kedumba Drawing Award was first presented in 1990, and is now considered the premier event for drawing in Australia.
It is a $20,000 acquisitive award for 24 invited artists.
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The Kedumba Gallery
The gallery displays the collection in the ballroom of "Coorah" - a c. 1890 house in the grounds of Blue Mountains Grammar School at Wentworth Falls, New South Wales.
The Kedumba Collection
The collection is enhanced through works acquired from the annual Kedumba Drawing Award and by donations and acquisitions approved by the Trustees.
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Supporting Kedumba
The Kedumba Trust invites and welcomes friends, sponsors and benefactors to support the Kedumba Collection to grow and thus provide an important statement of the development of drawing through time.
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About this website
We plan to display on this website almost every one of the works in the Kedumba Collection.
Copyright restrictions will exclude only one. Some still have to be processed.
While this will make the Collection accessible to a very wide audience indeed, it cannot match a viewing of the drawings themselves.
We hope this Internet exposure of the Collection will encourage more people to visit the Kedumba Gallery in Wentworth Falls to enjoy the works at first hand.
Jeffrey Plummer
Director