Natasha Walsh, Dear Frida 2018, oil on copper (detail), collection of the artist. Photo: AGNSW.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced Sydney artist Natasha Walsh as the winner of the 2018 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. Walsh’s winning body of work includes her self-portrait Dear Frida (2018). Walsh is currently a finalist in the Archibald Prize and was recently awarded the Newcastle Art Gallery’s Kilgour Prize.
The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship includes a three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and $40,000 additional education funding, and is awarded annually to a young Australian painter aged between 20 and 30 years old.
Guest judge Ben Quilty said Walsh’s work ‘has a quiet yet very self-assured sophistication that belies her youth. The future of Australian painting is in fine hands!’
