Past Prizes - 2017 Art Prize
Congratulating Our 2017 Winners
The 2017 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize Professional Artist Prize of $35,000 was won by Blackheath artist, Joan Ross
for her digital animation work, Colonial Grab, based on a landscape painting by John Glover. Katrina Collins, a painter
from Haberfield in Sydney's inner west won the Emerging Artist Prize of $5,000 for her richly coloured and joyful
abstract work, Split Complimentary.
Ravenswood Principal, Mrs Anne Johnstone says the school is extremely proud to have initiated the national prize for women.
'At Ravenswood, we value art highly and our students achieve a great deal of success. The prize reflects our commitment
to nurturing and supporting creativity not only for practising artists but for our own students and emerging artists. We
are very grateful to our sponsors Stockland, The Art Scene and Buildcorp for their financial support of the 2017 Ravenswood
Australian Women's Art Prize.'
Joan Ross 2017 Professional Artist Winner with Principal Anne Johnstone and Ravenswood's Coordinator of Visual Arts, Edwina Palmer
Winner of 2017 Professional Artist Prize: Joan Ross, Colonial Grab
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Winner of the 2017 Emerging Artist Prize: Katrina Collins, Split Complimentary