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.
Kedumba Drawing Award 2005
Selections by the judge, Nicholas Harding, were Ann Thomson's "Continuum", Lisa Roet's "Pri-mate Hand" and Peter Kingston's "Denton's Day".
The Director selected Tom Carment's "Stephen Muecke at work" with funds generously donated from Bygone Beautys, Leura.
A work by Kerry Johns, "Night Shore" was also selected for the Collection with Trustee approval.
Read the speech by Nicholas Harding, judge of the Kedumba Drawing Award 2005.
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.
[more info]
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