2024 Len Fox Painting Award

27 September 2024—2 March 2025

2024 Len Fox Painting Award
Commemorating the life and work of E. Phillips Fox


The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. The Len Fox Painting Award and generous acquisitive cash prize of $50,000 is funded through a bequest from Mona Fox.

The Len Fox Painting Award recognises and promotes the work of Australian artists pursuing the artistic interests and qualities of E. P. Fox. These include engagement with colour and light; ambitious connections with international developments in art; and an interest in travel and an engagement with the cultures of diverse regions and peoples.

Judges Emma Busowsky and John Wolseley are pleased to announce the winner, Nellie Ngampa Coulthard.


Winner:
Nellie Ngampa Coulthard, Tjuntala Ngurangka - Country with Wattle (Acacia Murrayana), Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 2024. Courtesy of Alcaston Gallery.

Judge Emma Busowsky comments:

Nellie Ngampa Coulthard’s Tjuntala Ngurangka – Country with Wattle (Acacia Murrayana) is a celebration of the beauty of nature and the artist’s abiding connection to her ancestral lands. It is an exuberant, joyful evocation of Yankunytjatjara Country, especially the brilliant yellow blossoms of the acacia wattle tree that abound there. Coulthard’s distinctive palette, command of her chosen medium of synthetic polymer paint, and unique vision have come together in a painting of dazzling beauty and intensity that captures the shimmering light, colour, atmosphere and abundance of the landscape. It is these qualities that link the work to the legacy of Emanuel Phillips Fox, though Coulthard’s cultural and artistic lineage is of course much older.

Coulthard is a respected elder from the artistically vibrant APY Lands in South Australia, and a practicing artist for over 3 decades. Tjuntala Ngurangka – Country with Wattle is both a worthy winner of the award and addition to a public collection, particularly one with strong holdings of colonial and 19th century Australian painting.


Judges Announce Prize Winner
Watch the announcement video below and hear the judges discuss the winner and finalists works.


2024 Len Fox finalists:

Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi, Alice Wormald, Amanda Johnson, Amber Wallis, Angie de Latour, Anne Wallace, Anthea Kemp, Anthony Pelchen, Bill Sampson, Carla Tucker, Chow Banana, Dale Cox, David Moore, Deborah Walker, Dena Kahan, Eleanor Louise Butt, Elizabeth Nelson, Ella Dunn, Emily Ferretti, Emma Coulter, Gabrielle Martin, Geordie Gem Williamson, Grant Nimmo, Helen McInnis, Jacqui Stockdale, Jacquie Meng, Jo Davenport, Joel Arthur, Jonathan Nichols, Judith Van Heeren, Julia Ciccarone, Karan Hayman, Kate McKenzie Lewis, Kate Tucker, Katherine Hattam, Kevin Chin, Kir Larwill, Lori Pensini, Lorna Quinn, Mark Dober, Mark Rodda, Mary Tonkin, Michelle Zuccolo, Moya McKenna, Nadine Christensen, Naomi Hobson, Nellie Ngampa Coulthard, Rhett D'Costa, Robert Fielding, Sid Pattni, Stephen Bush, Stephen Pleban, Tai Snaith, Wendy Stavrianos, Wendy Teakel and Zoe Amor.


Vote for your favourite artwork in the people's choice award here: https://form.jotform.com/242688643888882


Previous Award Winners

2022: Greg Creek, Killing Jar
2019: Betty Kuntiwa Pumani, Antara
2015: Prudence Flint, Wash
2013: Judy Drew, The silk gown
2011: Lynn Miller, Winter storm, Bay St, Brighton



Exhibition Dates: 27 September 2024 – 2 March 2025

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The Len Fox Painting Award is funded through a bequest from Mona Fox, managed by the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum Trust (CAGHM Trust)

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