Installation image. SIEMENS RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards, 2006. Photo: Mark Ashkanasy, RMIT Gallery, 2006.

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Siemens–RMIT Fine Art Scholarship Awards 2006

10:00am, 27 Nov —
5:00pm, 9 Dec 2006

RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Entry

Free

This is the sixth year of the prestigious Siemens-RMIT Fine Art Scholarship, one of the most progressive and rewarding scholarships of its kind in Australia.

The Siemens-RMIT Fine Art Scholarship enables students to further their careers in the field of fine arts by assisting research and production costs. Eight students will receive scholarships, comprising five undergraduate travel scholarships and three postgraduate scholarships to a total of $32,000 as well as one artist receiving the $1000 Siemens Fine Arts Acquisition Award, with their work becoming part of the Siemens art collection. An initiative of the School of Art, RMIT University.

The 2006 shortlist includes:

Jeremy Bakker
Nigel Brown
Simon Cottrell
Prue Crome
Simon Currell
Wendy Dracoulis
Lisa Frankland,
Michael Georgetti
Anna Gilby
Peter Gurry
Leon Hawker
Renda Helal
Douglas Hendry
Bianca Hester
Lisa Hilli
Kate Just
Katie Lee

Sanne Mestrom
Angela Morgan
Joanna Mortreux
James Murnane
Philippa Lesley Murray
Stephanie Neoh
Elizabeth Nigol
Robyn Phelan
Emily Plunkett
Pheobe Ross
Lisa Rumler
Deane Sobey
Kate Spencer
Salote Tawale
John Waller
Angela Watters
Mon-Xi Wu
Sally Zurbo

The five undergraduate scholarships of $2000 are awarded to:

Prue Crome, for her work titled “Light Passage
Lisa Frankland, for the installation titled “Un-Packing”
Anna Gilby, for her work titled “Window”
Robyn Phelan, for her ceramic piece titled “3 Teapots”
Sally Zurbo, for her drawing “Untitled 2”

The three postgraduate scholarships of $7000 are awarded to:

Bianca Hester, for her installation titled “Project, Projects, Compressed”
Kate Just, for her sculpture titled “Family”
Sanné Mestrom, for the watercolour titled “A history of space is the history of wars #1”

The $1000 Siemens Acquisition Award 2006 is awarded to Anna Gilby for “Window”, a free hanging relief in plaster, bandage, wire, aluminium and steel.

A judging panel of Siemens employees has selected the acquisition piece which will enter the prestigious Siemens corporate collection on display at its corporate headquarters in Bayswater, Victoria.

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