Congratulations to all the graduates of the 2024 Emerging Artist Support Scheme Awards!

The Emerging Artists Support Scheme (EASS) is an institution at the ANU School of Art & Design, founded in 1988 by the then Director, David Willams. From modest beginnings, EASS has continued to grow over the past three decades and boasts the strong support of our wonderful community of arts patrons: individuals, businesses, galleries and organisations.

Patrons of the Scheme support our undergraduate and postgraduate students by offering a variety of awards, and commissioning and acquiring new artworks. Such generous sponsorship from patrons represents assistance for graduating artists when it is most valuable - at the beginning of their independent careers. The Emerging Artists Support Scheme offers countless opportunities for our graduates; bolsters the prominence of art and design in our local regions; and helps our graduates find their place in the national creative industries sector. The breadth and scope of the Emerging Artists Support Scheme is unique to the ANU School of Art & Design.

 

Recipients of the 2024 EASS awards are as follows:

ACT Legislative Assembly Prize - Helen Heslop, Yvonne Poole

Alliance Française Exhibition Award - Jemma Copland, Yvonne Poole, Millicent Yates

ANU Art Collection Acquisition Award - Rowena Evans

ANU MakerSpace Graduate in Residence Award - Ben Claridge, Benjamin Coultas-Roberts

Art Monthly Australasia Subscription Award - Isobel Waters

Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) Exhibition Award - Ira gold, Tanya King, James O'Rourke

Basil Sellers Exhibition and Residency Award - Sienna Curby

Belco Arts Exhibition Award - Rowena Evans

Canberra Contemporary Art Space Mentoring and Exhibition Award - Litia Roko, Jackson Taylor

Canberra Grammar School Residency Award - Alicia Cox

Canberra Museum & Gallery Ramp Showcase Award - Philip Agius

Canberra Potters Artist Residency & Internship Award - James O’Rourke

Canberra Spinners and Weavers Exhibition Award - Farishta Arzoo, Jemma Copland, Melanie Olde

Country to Coast Residency & Durras Hall Exhibition Award - Ella McLaughlin

COX Architecture Award - Sienna Curby

Craft + Design Canberra Emerging Contemporaries Award - Philip Agius, Tess Carlton, Jemma Copland, Group project - Ruby Davies, Tilda Joy & Ali Mencshelyi, Rachael Hanrick, Tilda Joy, Liv Kidston, Melanie Olde, Isobel Waters

Emerging Artist Support Scheme Acquisition Award - Sienna Curby, Jackson Taylor, Millicent Yates

Friends of Drill Hall Gallery Acquisition Award - Tess Carlton

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Exhibition Award - Jackson Taylor

Grainger Gallery Award - Rowena Evans

M16 Artspace Artist in Residence & Exhibition Award - Litia Roko, Jackson Taylor

Megalo Print Studio Graduate Residency Award - Farishta Arzoo, Rowena Evans, Claire Fletcher, Lachlan Tumeth

PhotoAccess Residency Award - Anita Pollard

Strathnairn Arts Association Anita McIntyre Residency Award  - Yvonne Poole

Strathnairn Arts Association Exhibition Award - Alicia Cox, Sophie Kihara-Murer, Christopher Whitfeld, Ebony Winnett

The 2024 studio studio Award, Farishta Arzoo, Lachlan Tumeth

Tuggeranong Arts Centre Exhibition Award - Melanie Olde

 

Awarded throughout the year

ANU School of Art & Design Drawing Prize - Lisa Stevenson

Peter and Lena Karmel Honours Scholarship in the School of Art - Helen Heslop

John and Elizabeth Baker Honours Scholarship - Jackson Taylor

Kate and Bill Guy Art History and Theory Honours Prize - Eleanor Otoole

ANU Visual Arts Endowment Scholarship (BVART) - Xiaofan Charlotte Liang

ANU Visual Arts Endowment Scholarship (BDESN) - Eliza Laithwaite

Gray Smith and Joan Scott Prize - Jackson Taylor

EASS Patrons Higher Degree Research Award - Harriet Schwarzrock & Melita Dahl

The Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Art History and Curatorship - Emma Rafidi

The Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Art History and Theory Honours - Tamara Tahapehi

The Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Introduction to Art History and Curatorship - Edeline Ohk

Nigel Thomson Travel Grant - Anne-Marie Mansour

Max Hawk Travelling Scholarship in the School of Art - Grace Downey

Peter and Lena Karmel Anniversary Prize in Art - Litia Roko

 

For more information about the awards, please email admin.somad@anu.edu.au