The Evelyn Chapman Trust was established by Evelyn Chapman’s daughter Pamela Thalben-Ball and awards a scholarship of $50,000 every second year, to support a young Australian painter by furthering their art education both in knowledge and artistic practice. The artist receiving the award will use the scholarship overseas or in Australia, at a recognised and well-established art school, or work at an organisation on a program or project that enhances the artist’s artistic skills.
The Award will be presented to a young artist, male or female, under the age of 45. Applicants will submit one or more landscape, portrait or still life painting in oils or tempera (up to a maximum of three works). A selection committee of three judges will then come to a consensus on the applicant who displays the highest artistic merit.
Born in 1888 in Sydney, Evelyn Chapman was a painter who spent her working career in Australia and Europe. She exhibited in the Salon in France, before travelling to battlefronts of France following the First World War. She became the first female artist to depict the devastated fields, churches and towns of the western front. Chapman retired as painter following her marriage; however she espoused art education and practice, particularly in her daughter.
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