The Battle of Lone Pine 100th anniversary was commemorated on Thursday 6th August at The Gallipoli Club in Sydney with an unveiling of 10 bronze busts sculptures of the Australian and New Zealand Victoria Cross winners from the Gallipoli campaign. The NSW Governor, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and Mrs Hurley, and relatives of […]
Unveiling of Commemorative Sculptures and Gallipoli and Canakkale Art Prize 10 Year Exhibition by His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d), Governor of New South Wales August 6, 7pm Gallipoli Memorial Club, Loftus Street Sydney The Gallipoli Memorial Club is delighted to announce the upcoming opening of the 10 year Exhibition of the […]
Sydney painter Sally Robinson has won the $20 000 2015 Gallipoli Art Prize with her painting ‘Boy Soldiers’ depicting grave stones at Gallipoli stencilled with the names and ages of the youngest soldiers to die in the Gallipoli campaign. Judges also commended Victorian Martin Tighe for his painting of a donkey ‘The Burden’ and NSW […]
A record number of entries have been received for this year’s annual $20 000 Gallipoli Art Prize, marking a significant milestone for the prize that celebrates its 10th year coinciding with the Gallipoli Centenary. Every year the paintings submitted to the Gallipoli Art Prize tell personal and often emotional stories about the legacy of war […]
CALL OUT FOR ENTRIES TO THE 2015 GALLIPOLI ART PRIZE and announcement of Gallipoli Art Prize National Tour Entries to 2015 Gallipoli Art Prize close 17 March, 2015 2015 Winner will be announced 23 April, 2015 in Sydney Gallipoli Art Prize National Tour commences August 2015 The Gallipoli Memorial Club is calling on Australian, New […]
The Gallipoli Memorial Club will be conducting a travelling Gallipoli Art Prize National Tour of 20 artworks throughout Australia commencing from August 2015 to take place over the next two years to commemorate the Anzac Centenary. Established in 2005, the annual Gallipoli Art Prize is awarded to the work that best expresses the Gallipoli Club’s […]
Sydney landscape painter Idris Murphy (pronounced Eye-dris) has won the $20 000 2014 Gallipoli Art Prize with his painting ‘Gallipoli Evening 2013’ depicting a lone tree in a golden landscape, inspired by his recent visit to Gallipoli. Murphy only recently discovered over 160 letters written by his grandfather Charles Idris Pike from the battlefields of […]
MEDIA RELEASE – 7 April 2014 www.gallipoli.com.au RECORD NUMBER OF ENTRIES FOR 2014 GALLIPOLI ART PRIZE Winner announced 12pm Wed 23 April, 2014 A record number of entries have been received for this year’s annual $20 000 Gallipoli Art Prize. Judges have selected 37 finalists from a record field of 166 entries, with the winner […]
We are extremely pleased to announce that record entries have been received by the Gallipoli Memorial Club for this years $20 000 acquisitional Art Prize. 166 entries where received with 37 finalists selected. Judging was conducted by John MacDonald, art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, Jane Watters, Gallery Director, S.H. Ervin Gallery and Barry Pearce former […]