Exhibitions

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.The Len Fox Painting Award will be made to a painting judged to have addressed the interests of E. P. Fox as an imaginative, inquisitive, and worldly artist. Any style or genre is eligible, however, it is recognised that E. P. Fox is most noted for landscape, figurative and portrait paintings. The painting may be made in any medium, subject to declared practical limitations. This is an acquisitive award, with the winning work becoming part of the Museum’s Art Collection.

Announcing the finalists:Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi, Alice Wormald, Amanda Johnson, Amber Wallis, Angie de Latour, Anne Wallace, Anthea Kemp, Anthony Pelchen, Bill Sampson, Carla Tucker, Chow Banana, Dale Cox, David Moore, Deborah Walker, Dena Kahan, Eleanor Louise Butt, Elizabeth Nelson, Ella Dunn, Emily Feretti, Emma Coulter, Gabrielle Martin, Geordie Gem Williamson, Grant Nimmo, Helen McInnis, Jacqui Stockdale, Jacquie Meng, Jo Davenport, Joel Arthur, Jonathan Nichols, Judith Van Heeren, Julia Ciccarone, Karan Hayman, Kate McKenzie Lewis, Kate Tucker, Katherine Hattam, Kevin Chin, Kir Larwill, Lori Pensini, Lorna Quinn, Mark Dober, Mark Rodda, Mary Tonkin, Michelle Zuccolo, Moya McKenna, Nadine Christensen, Naomi Hobson, Nellie Ngampa Coulthard, Rhett D'Costa, Robert Fielding, Sid Pattni, Stephen Bush, Stephen Pleban, Tai Snaith, Wendy Stavrianos, Wendy Teakel and Zoe Amor.