Recipients and finalists

Scholarship recipients

Six artists have been awarded the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2022.

Bill Hawkins, age 30, from Coburg, Victoria has been awarded the Cité internationale des arts, Paris residency.

Five artists have been awarded the Shark Island Kangaroo Valley residency: 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.

Browse these image galleries to see the winning body of work from each artist, beginning with the two paintings on which they were judged.

Bill Hawkins

Bill Hawkins Butterfly brut 2022, oil, eggshells, sand, wood and modelling paste on wooden board, 20 x 28 cm

Bill Hawkins Metamorphosis 2022, oil, eggshells and modelling paste on wooden board, 20 x 28 cm

Bill Hawkins Plate of sardines 2022, oil on wooden board, 20 x 28 cm

Bill Hawkins Chewing gum abstraction 2022, oil and modelling paste on wooden board, 20 x 28 cm

Bill Hawkins Leonardo draws the lung 2022, oil and modelling paste on wooden board, 28 x 20 cm

Bill Hawkins Dried chewing gum as Greek sculpture 2022, oil and modelling paste on wooden board, 28 x 20 cm

Bill Hawkins Soutine’s bride 2022, oil and modelling paste on wooden board, 28 x 20 cm

Bill Hawkins Baroness Elsa one ups Duchamp 2022, oil and modelling paste on wooden board, 28 x 20 cm

Bill Hawkins Bad ideas 2022, oil, eggshells, sand, wood and modelling paste on wooden board, 28 x 20 cm

Bill Hawkins Butterfly pelvis 2022, oil and modelling paste on wooden board, 20 x 28 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol

Mark Maurangi Carrol Tamāroa – boy with lamb 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 122 x 100 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol Statuette 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 102 x 92 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol Antiquated torso 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 102 x 92 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol New mouth 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 122 x 100 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol The big other 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 67 x 72 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol Rocking horse (luc tuymans) 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 102 x 92 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol The planter Tanutanu kai 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 102 x 92 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol Pink balloon deflating 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 61 x 51 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol Plastic garden sim 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 84 x 66 cm

Mark Maurangi Carrol Boy dreams 2022, oil enamel, permanent marker on linen, 56 x 51 cm

Sarah Drinan

Sarah Drinan Flipper bottoms 2021, acrylic, oil and pumice gel, 112 x 127 cm

Sarah Drinan Pooh Bear 2022, oil on canvas, 107 x 107 cm

Sarah Drinan Pigs in a trough, pinky 2021, acrylic, oil and oil pastel on canvas, 146 x 100 cm

Sarah Drinan Golden horns and the swan swamp 2022, acrylic, oil and soft pastel on canvas, 110 x 85 cm

Sarah Drinan If I was a hot chicken on a picnic date 2022, acrylic and oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Sarah Drinan Golden child (pissing boots) 2022, acrylic and oil on canvas, 96 x 80 cm

Sarah Drinan Sneak peek, I'll order 2021, acrylic and oil on canvas, 95 x 102 cm

Sarah Drinan Bath with mum 2022, acrylic and oil on canvas, 101 x 112 cm

Sarah Drinan, Lamby 2022, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 60 x 40 cm

Sarah Drinan Tank girl 2022, pencil on paper, 50 x 50 cm

Miranda Hine

Miranda Hine Jan and Barbara's garden (orange) 2022, oil on board, 15.8 x 12.7 cm

Miranda Hine Kyogle gates 2022, oil on board, 12.7 x 15.8 cm

Miranda Hine Jan and Barbara's garden (green) 2022, oil on board, 15.8 x 12.7 cm

Miranda Hine Mom as a piece of kale 2022, oil on board, 30 x 22 cm

Miranda Hine Soft water, cloudy day 2022, oil on board, 23 x 15 cm

Miranda Hine Wildflower garden 2022, oil on board, 25.5 x 16.5 cm

Miranda Hine Little pink macho moustache 2022, oil on board, 23 x 15 cm

Miranda Hine Mil in a stranger's garden, Toowoomba 2022, oil on board, 92 x 61 cm

Miranda Hine Wetlands afternoon 2022, oil on board, 15.8 x 12.7 cm

Miranda Hine Road to Kyogle 2022, oil on board, 25.5 x 16.5 cm

Drew Connor Holland

Drew Connor Holland A sun, A moon; crow’s feet; grieving the loss of harmony 2017–22, mixed media, 122 x 89 cm framed

Drew Connor Holland Clipping the wings from the back of an angel (you do not need to have your body on the earth to feel your skin on mine) 2020–22, mixed media, 121 x 89 cm framed

Drew Connor Holland Waiting for every moment to go away / I keep listening to old voices / the end of something / December 2020–22, mixed media, 121 x 89 cm framed

Drew Connor Holland There are parts of me that do not exist any more / a lamb kisses an open flame / January 2020–21, mixed media, 122 x 89 cm framed

Drew Connor Holland The sound of an arrow released from its bow / blood on linen / (I was made so small) 2020–22, mixed media, 122 x 89 cm framed

Drew Connor Holland Flesh / last / the sound of bears killing 2022, mixed media, 121 x 89 cm

Drew Connor Holland Saw half of agony (trees cannot bear the weight of their own leaves) 2022, mixed media, 121 x 89 cm

Drew Connor Holland Carrying all my oceans / American agriculture / (we are all long-haired in heaven) 2022, mixed media, 121 x 89 cm

Drew Connor Holland Vanity project / severing a head with a wrench (65 miles north of Las Vegas) 2022, mixed media, 121 x 89 cm

Drew Connor Holland Rhinestones (Phillip Plein) 2022, watercolour pencil on polypropylene, 59.5 x 42 cm

Flin Sharp

Flin Sharp Sybil (after Lucas van Leyden) 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 45 cm

Flin Sharp W 2021, acrylic on MDF mounted on plasterboard, 55 x 40 cm

Flin Sharp Animals 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 45 cm

Flin Sharp Ship of fools (after Durer) 2021, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm

Flin Sharp Glossolalia 2021, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm

Flin Sharp Marrote 2021, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm

Flin Sharp Fresco study 2021, acrylic on MDF mounted on plasterboard, 55 x 40 cm

Flin Sharp Fresco study 2 2022, acrylic on MDF mounted on plasterboard, 55 x 40 cm

Flin Sharp Fresco study 3 2022, acrylic on MDF mounted on plasterboard, 55 x 40 cm

Flin Sharp Wool-gathering 2022 (installation view), acrylic on wall, dimensions variable

Other finalists

The six scholarship recipients were chosen from among the other finalists in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2022: Amelia Carroll, age 28 from Kingston, ACT; Brodie Cullen, age 21 from Darlinghurst, NSW; Emily Galicek, age 27 from Newtown, NSW; Nina Radonja, age 30 from Chester Hill, NSW; and Oliver Scherer, age 24 from Darlinghurst, NSW.

You can browse an image gallery of the major works submitted by these artists.