MAPh | Bowness Photography Prize celebrates 15 years

EXHIBITION

Bowness Photography Prize celebrates 15 years

18 February – 6 March 2021

Polixeni PAPAPETROU
Delphi 2016
from the series Eden
pigment ink-jet print 127.5 x 85.0 cm
Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection
donated by MGA Foundation 2017
courtesy of the Estate of Polixeni Papapetrou and Jarvis Dooney Galerie (Berlin)

SMITH & SINGER
14–16 Collins Street
Melbourne Victoria 3000

In 2020 the Bowness Photography Prize marks its 15th year. To celebrate MGA has partnered with Smith & Singer to showcase the previous 15 recipients during the international photography festival Photo 2021 at their Collins Street premises.

Established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography, across all photographic media and genres by both established and emerging artists, the annual William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize is an initiative of the MGA Foundation. The Bowness Photography Prize has become an important survey of contemporary photographic practice and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country, providing Australian artists with the opportunity to exhibit at one of Australia's leading public galleries. Since 2017 the prize has been acquisitive and the $30,000 cash prize awarded to the winner ensures that it continues to provide a significant boost to an artist’s career.

Smith & Singer’s support of the Bowness Photography Prize is a reflection of the national and historic importance of this prize and the MGA Foundation is profoundly grateful to partner with such an esteemed organisation.

The annual Bowness Photography Prize reveals artists’ continued fascination with exploring and pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium, embracing its capacity to explore a diversity of voices and perspectives.

Curator: Anouska Phizacklea

Bowness Photography Prize artists

Presented as part of PHOTO 2021 International Photography Festival

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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