Friday 7 October 2011 marked a special day at Rockhampton Art Gallery with the launch of two prestigious and unique awards; Gold Award and The Bayton Award.
Her Excellency the Governor of Queensland, Ms Penelope Wensley, AC officially launched the two awards at a special event in from of members of the arts community at Rockhampton Art Gallery.
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The Gold Award for contemporary artists will be a premier biennial art event of national significance made possible through the generous bequest of $600,000 to Rockhampton Art Gallery Trust from the estate of Moya Gold, a philanthropist who understood the joys and opportunities of arts education.
These artists, multiple and recent prizewinners in some of Australia’s most significant prizes including the Archibald and Doug Moran Portrait Prizes; and the Wynne and Arthur Guy Painting Prizes produces a high caliber, potent prize representing in many ways the crème-de-la-crème of contemporary painting.
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The Bayton Award, a biennial non-acquisitive prize open to all forms of art media, celebrating the diversity and excitement of visual arts in the Central Queensland region offers $11,500 in total prizes including cash prizes, an artist in residency opportunity and a People's choice award.
2012 is the inaugural year of the award and 46 finalists have been selected from a field of 67 to be in the running for the prize.
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Rockhampton Art Gallery
1 June - 12 August 2012
The Gold Award and Bayton Award are joint initiatives of Rockhampton Art Gallery Trust, Rockhampton Art Gallery and Rockhampton Regional Council.
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