Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2022

In its 24th year, the annual Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship has been awarded to six artists.

Bill Hawkins, age 30, from Coburg, Victoria has been awarded a three-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris and $40,000.

Five other artists each receive $10,000 and a two-week residency at Shark Island Kangaroo Valley in New South Wales: Mark Maurangi Carrol, age 27 from Randwick, NSW; Sarah Drinan, age 28 from Clifton Hill, Victoria; Miranda Hine, age 28 from Coorparoo, Queensland; Drew Connor Holland, age 27 from Darlinghurst, NSW; and Flin Sharp, age 28 from Randwick, NSW.

These artists, along with five other finalists, were selected from 187 entries by guest artist judge Mitch Cairns, who has curated an exhibition of paintings from the bodies of work of each finalist and scholarship recipient, which is on display at the Brett Whiteley Studio.

The annual scholarship was created from an endowment by Beryl Whiteley, who died in 2010. It was inspired by the profound effect international travel and study had on her son, the artist Brett Whiteley, as a result of winning the Italian Government Travelling Art Scholarship at the age of 20.

Previously, the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship was awarded to a single artist each year and included a three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. However, due to COVID-19 international travel restrictions, it was not possible to host the 2020 and 2021 scholarship recipients overseas, and instead a local residency was awarded to five artists. Thanks to the continuing generosity of Shark Island Kangaroo Valley, in 2022, both the overseas and the local residencies have been awarded.