ALUMNI

2026

OUR FORESTS IN DANGER

FOM ECOLE DE BARBIZON TO TODAY

2026 FRENCH FINAL
JURY

President: Her Excellency, Lynette Wood, Ambassador

Claire Barbillon, Ecole du Louvre, director

Magali Melandri, Musee Quai Branly, Head of Oceania

Catherine Nicholls, Lyon Biennale, Curator

Guillaume Piens, Art Paris, director

Anne-Solene Rolland, INHA, Director

AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, PARIS

Australian Embassy, Paris, France@Simon Patching

WINNER

FRANCESCO DENIAU

Francois Davin (Fr) Vs

Darryl Rogers -Takayna exhibition, Bob Brown Foundation- (Au)

Video (7′) – Paper (400 words)

FINALISTS

CLARA FIMA

T. Rousseau (Fr) / J. Wolseley (Au)

Paper  – Video (7′)

BERTILLE HANTRAYE

Claude Mollard (Fr) / Djon Mundine (Au)

Paper –   Video (7′)

2025

SAVE OUR OCEANS !

2025 FRENCH FINAL
JURY

President: Her Excellency, Lynette Wood, Ambassador

Claire Barbillon, Ecole du Louvre, director

Magali Melandri, Musee Quai Branly, Head of Oceania

AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, PARIS

Australian Embassy, Paris, France@Simon Patching

WINNER

LOUISE ADAM DE VILLIERS

Nicholas Floc’h (FR) vs.

Jimmy Thaiday, Ghost Net Collective (AUS)

Paper –   Video (7′)

FINALISTS

BERTILLE HANTRAYE

Christo & Jeanne-Claude (Fr) vs. Izabella Pluta (Au)

Video (7′) – Paper (400 words)

QUITTERIE HUDAULT

H. Matisse (Fr) vs. Latai Taumoepeau (Aus)

Paper  – Video (7′)

2025 AUSTRALIAN FINAL
JURY

President: Suzanne Cotter, MCA Director

Raphael Coulhon, Embassy of France

Kerry Gardner, AM

Alison Kubler, Vault Magazine, Chief Editor

Janet Laurence, Artist

Barbara Moore, Sydney Biennale, CEO

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA, SYDNEY

Museum of Contemporary Arty, Australia @ Brett Boardman Photography

ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE WINNER

LEVENT CAN KAYA

UNIVERSITY OF NSW

Johnny W Tjupurrula (Au) / Marguerite Humeau (Fr)

Video (7′) – Paper (400 words)

UNIVERSITY COORDINATOR

PROF. FELICITY FENNER

ISFAR PRIZE WINNER

LEVENT CAN KAYA

UNIVERSITY OF NSW

Johnny W Tjupurrula (Au) / Marguerite Humeau (Fr)

Video (7′) – Paper (400 words)

ISFAR PRIZE WINNER

FIONA HENDERSON

NATIONAL ART SCHOOL

Talk: Joyce Lubotzky (Au) / Aude Bourguine (Fr)

AUDIENCE PRIZE WINNER

GEORGIA MUSUMECI

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

Talk: Ethel Carrick & P. Fox (Au) / Christo & Jeanne Claude (Fr)

Paper (400 words) – Video (7′)

FINALISTS

HARRIET FURPHY

ANU

Marine Serre (Fr) / N. Zimmermann (Au)

HUGH MAGNUS

UMEL

Pierre Huyghe (Fr) / Bea Maddock (Au)

KEIRA GARLAND

USYD

J. Gobe (Fr) /Griffiths & Gaemers (Au)

SAM BEARD

UWA

Claude Cahun (Fr) / James Gleeson (Au)

2024

SAVE OUR PLANET !

FROM ART NOUVEAU TO TODAY

2024 AUSTRALIAN FINAL
JURY

President: Tony Ellwood AM, National Gallery of Victoria, Director

Myriam Boisbouvier-Wylie, French Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation, Chair

Krystyna Campbell Pretty AM, Member of the Foundation Council and the Trustee

Kerry Gardner AM, Australian Institute of Art History,  board director

Dr Ted Gott, National Gallery of Victoria, Head of International Art

Anne Wallace, artist

NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE
ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE WINNER

ELECTRA AITCHISON

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

Berliet villa, Lyon (Fr) vs. Babworth House, Sydney (Aus)

Video (7′) – Paper (400 words)

University coordinator

PROF. MARK LEDBURY

ISFAR PRIZE WINNERS

DANIEL GLOVER

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Emile Gallee (Fr) vs. Yhonnie Scarce (Aus)

Published Paper in ISFAR Newsletter (Dec 2024) –   Video (7′)

TILLY POLHMANN

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Élisabeth Sonrel (Fr) vs. Thea Proctor (Aus)

Published paper in ISFAR newsletter (Dec 2024) – Video (7′)

FINALISTS

Jemima Adans, ANU

Sarah Bernhardt (Fr) vs. Yhonnie Scarce (Au)

Megan Gardner, UQ

Rachilde (Fr) vs. SJ Norman (Au)

2023

ART & ENVIRONMENT

2023 AUSTRALIAN FINAL
JURY

Introductory speech: Dr Nick Mitzevich, National Gallery of Australia, Director

President: Dr Deborah Hart, National Gallery of Australia, Head of Australian Art

Karine Mauris, Embassy of France in Australia, Cultural Attache

Janet Laurence, artist

Russell Storer, National Gallery of Australia, Head of International Art

Terence Maloon, Drill Hall Gallery, Director

NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA, CANBERRA

Ramingining artists, Djon Mundine, Bandjalung people, The Aboriginal Memorial, 1987–88, purchased with the assistance of funds from National Gallery admission charges and commissioned in 1987. Collection National Gallery of Australia.

ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE WINNER

POPPY THOMSON

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Cathryn Boch (Fr) vs. Bonita Ely (Aus)

Video (10′) – Paper (400 words)

Poppy is the gallery manager at Deutscher Hackett.

She is a CulturePlus board director.

Poppy holds a honours degree in art history and curatorship at the Australian National University.

AMA PRIZE WINNER & 2ND ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE WINNER

IMOGEN KING

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

Hubert Robert (Fr) vs. Jonathan Jones (Aus)

Video (10′) – Paper (400 words)

Imogen is currently completing her PhD at the University of Sydney, studying Eighteenth-century French women and their relationship to print culture. She is a 2023 Power Institute’s Paris Residency fellow.

FINALISTS

Artemisia Cornett, NAS

Berthe Morisot (Fr) vs. Violet Teague (Aus)

Byron Ellis, UWA

Georges Seurat (Fr) vs. Emily Kame Kngwarreye (Aus)

Christina Olszewski

Elsa Guillaume (Fr) vs. Angus Fisher (Aus)

2022

IMPACT OF MATISSE ON AUSTRALIAN ART

2022 AUSTRALIAN FINAL
JURY

President: Maud Page, Art Gallery of NSW, Deputy Director and Director of the Collections.

Dr. Mark De-Vitis, University of Sydney

Jackie Dunn, AGNSW, Head of International Art

Danie Mellor, artist

Barbara Moore, Sydney Biennale, CEO

ART GALLERY OF NSW, SYDNEY

Exterior view of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, with the new SANAA-designed building, Naala Badu (left), and the original building, Naala Nura (far right), 2022, photo © Iwan Baan

ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE WINNER

SHANTI SHEA AN

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Henri Matisse (Fr) vs. Hilda Rix Nicholas (Aus)

Shanti is an artist living and working in Sydney. She is also teaching at the National Art School.

Shanti website: https://santisheaan.com

She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) and a Master of Art History & Curatorial Studies (Advanced) from the Australian National University, School of Art & Design.

FINALISTS

Sadhbha Cockburn, NAS

Amelia Pontifex, Monash

Jennifer Yang, USYD

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