Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2023

In its 25th year, the annual Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship has been awarded to seven artists.

Mark Maurangi Carrol, age 28, from Randwick, NSW has been awarded a three-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris and $50,000.

Six other artists each receive $10,000 and a two-week residency at Shark Island Kangaroo Valley in New South Wales: Sis Cowie, age 24 from Malvern East, Victoria; Joseph Christie Evans, age 23 from Newtown, NSW; Visaya Hoffie, age 26 from Balmoral, Queensland; Lauren O’Connor, age 29 from Enfield, NSW; Oliver Scherer, age 25 from Wheeler Heights, NSW; and Angus White, age 24 from Hawthorn East, Victoria.

These artists, along with five other finalists, were selected from 181 entries by guest artist judge Guido Maestri, 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.