Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2021. A page with details of all the nominees and the judges comments on the winners will be posted soon.
Winners and Highly Commended
BEST ANTHOLOGY
$500 sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne
Judges Associate Professor Robert Gaston and Dr Sheridan Palmer
Highly Commended
She Persists: Perspective on Women in Art & Design, Annika Aitken, Isobel Crombie, Megan Patty, Maria Quirk and Myles Russell-Cook (eds.)
2021 Best Anthology
The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions, Tony Bennett, Deborah Stevenson, Fred Myers, Tamara Winikoff (eds.)
BEST ARTIST LED PUBLICATION
$500 supported by Monash Art Design & Architecture, Monash University
Judges Bryony Naiby and Dr VerónicaTello
Highly Commended:
A Sorrowful Act: The Wreck of the Zeewijk, Drew Pettifer
2021 Best Artist Led:
Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings, Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh (eds.)
BEST SCHOLARLY ARTICLE IN THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART
$500 sponsored by the Power Institute, University of Sydney
Judges Dr Helen McDonald and Emeritus Professor Richard Read
Jesse Adams Stein, When Manufacturing Workers Make Sculpture: Creative Pathways in the Context of Australian Deindustrialisation, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art, 20:2
BEST WRITING BY AN AOTEAROA MĀORI OR PASIFIKA
$500 sponsored by Christchurch Art Gallery TePuna o Waiwhetū
Judge Associate Professor Ngarino Ellis
Highly Commended
The Angry Brown Woman: My Issues with Art Schools, Ana McAllister
2021 Best Writing by an Aotearoa Māori or Pasifika:
Te Manu Huna a Tāne, Eugene Hansen/Maniapoto and Jenny Gillam (eds.)
BEST ART WRITING BY AN INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN
$500 prize money + new writing commission supported by Art Monthly
Judges Dr Fiona Foley and Michael Fitzgerald
Speaking of an Unquiet Country, Danie Mellor in Tony Bennett, Deborah Stevenson, Fred Myers, Tamara Winikoff (eds), The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions, (New York and London: Routledge, 2020)
BEST UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
$1,000 sponsored by University Art Museums Australia
Judges Professor Andrew McNamara and Sarah Pirrie
Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome Is Certain (Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art and Perimeter Editions, 2020), Hannah Mathews and Melissa Ratliff (eds.)
BEST MEDIUM EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
$500 sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne
Judges Dr Karen Hall and Dr Sally Quinn
Hidden Light: Early Canterbury and West Coast Photography, Ken Hall with Haruhiko Sameshima
BEST LARGE EXHIBITION CATALGOUE
$500 sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne
Judges Dr Joanna Barrkman and Dr Wendy Garden
2020 Best Large Exhibition Catalogue:
Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett, Zara Stanhope, Abigail Bernal, Simon Wright, J Faith (Kapwa) Almiron, Tim Riley Walsh
BEST BOOK
$1,000 sponsored by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA
Judges Emeritus Professor Helen Ennis FAHA and Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin
Highly Commended:
Where Dragon Veins Meet: the Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe, Stephen H. Whiteman
Highly Commended:
Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism, Anthony White
2021 Best Book
Billy Apple® Life/Work, Christina Barton