Hildegard Art Prize

Received from Meredith Brice.

Dr Pam Johnston has been announced as the recipient of The Inaugural Hildegard Art Prize for Women at the CHRIST CHURCH contemporary art space Gosford. She will take up the award of a two week long Artist-in-Residence at the Christ Church site, 3 Mann Street Gosford, followed by a two week exhibition at the conclusion of the residency. (Dates to be announced.)




Pam Johnston has been active in the women's movement as well as in Aboriginal and prison issues for many years. She is a visual artist, activist, community artist, lecturer and author, and has won the International Women's Day Women's Electoral Lobby Edna Ryan Award for services to her local community, and the Women in Art Fellowship from the New South Wales Ministry for the Arts. Dr. Johnston obtained her Ph.D at the University of Wollongong,the first Aboriginal person to do so. Creatively Johnston seeks to explore the inner sense of how humanity gives life meaning, particularly after devastation, trauma and death.
She has exhibited extensively; the Gandangarra mosaic in Macquarie Street, Liverpool in the Sydney area, is perhaps her most well known work.

We have had to edit down the substantial CV supplied, but further information is available from Meredith Brice at: merrybrice@hotmail.com