The Naked & Nude Art Prize

(Previously the Manning Art Prize: Naked & Nude)

 

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“Naked & Nude refers to two things: firstly the great tradition of the Nude: a person who is bare with no covering or decoration.

Secondly, a wider definition: something that is revealed, laid bare, unmasked or vulnerable”.

The biennial Naked & Nude Art Prize (previously the Manning Art Prize: Naked & Nude) began in 1990 with entries open to Australian artists. The Art Prize is a partnership between Friends of the Manning Regional Art Gallery and the Manning Regional Art Gallery. After 33 years, the Naked & Nude Art Prize has become a prestigious national event on the Australian Arts Calendar and is open to Australian and international artists in a variety of media. For 2025, the Major Prize is $40,000 and the Val Good People’s Choice Prize is $2,000. The Friends acquire the Major Prize artwork and donate it to the Manning Regional Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

 

Entries to Naked & Nude 2025
open 1 December 2024

Entries close 9 May 2025

 

click here to go to the entry form

 

click here to read the Art Prize Terms and Conditions

 

 

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Gwen Roberts wins the
Val Good People’s Choice art prize for 2023

 

Congratulations to Gwen Roberts, winner of the $2,000 Naked & Nude Art Prize 2023 Val Good People’s Choice Prize, for her work “Queen”.

View the exhibition catalogue here.

 

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Summer Aldis wins the Naked & Nude Art Prize 2023

 

Congratulations to Summer Aldis, winner of the $35,000 Art Prize, for her work “Companion II”.

Guest Judge Lauretta Morton OAM had the challenging task of selecting from the 61 high-quality entries:

“It is an honour to be the invited judge for this year’s Manning Regional Art Gallery $35,000 Naked & Nude Art Prize.

Having spent time with all the entries in the flesh, I found myself continually lured back to Summer Aldis’s large scale drawing Companion II.

Depicting a softly rendered body lying perfectly still, suspended, and draped in a wave of deftly rendered fabric, this rich and aesthetically alluring work of art while quiet, is extremely powerful.

Through the artist’s technically distilled and precise practice of drawing with graphite on paper, it explores thematic elements such as time, memory, symbology, light and dark, and reflects an artist whose attention to detail and precision is second to none.”

The Naked & Nude Art Prize 2023 will show at the Gallery until 15 October. Entry is free!

View the exhibition catalogue here.

 

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Gala Opening
2 September 2023

The winner of the Naked & Nude Art Prize 2023 will be announced at the Gala Opening on 2 September 2023. Join us at the Gallery at 6:30 PM for a 7:00 PM start.

 

The cost of entry is $35.00 and complimentary food and refreshments will be served.

 

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Thanks to our sponsors
for supporting the Art Prize

 

Key Sponsor

Midcoast Council, in partnership with
the Friends of the Manning Regional Art Gallery

 

Principal Sponsor

Dr Philip Walkom & Mrs Dusty Walkom OAM

 

Platinum Sponsors

Barry Schlenker

In Memory of Helen Schlenker

 

Tim Scargill, Harworth Holdings

In Memory of Debbie Scargill

 

In Memory of Mary Geraets

 

Chris and Karen Larkin

 

 

Gold Sponsors

Charles & Jan Everingham

 

Alana Parkins OAM & Norman Shapro

 

Emily Pow

 “Corinthians” (Seasonal Supplies)

 

Alan & Jonathon Tickle

Your Heritage Financial Planning

 

Cate & Mark Brathwaite

 

Ashley & Kylie Cleaver

Cleavers Tyres

 

Carley Burke & Alex Cosway

Laing+Simmons Manning Valley

 

Paula Lowndes

 

Suzie Carlon & Neil Gibson

Mansfield on the Manning

 

Paul Stack

Stacks Finance

 

 

Valued Sponsors

Maurie Stack
Hulbay Pty Ltd (C Rose)
A K Hopcroft
Johnson & Mongan
Mid North Coast Sleep Clinic
Paton Hooke
Peter Braude

 

 

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Congratulations to the finalists of
the Naked & Nude Art Prize 2023

 

The Manning Regional Art Gallery is delighted to announce the 61 finalists for the Naked & Nude Art Prize 2023:

Summer Aldis, Behzad Alipour, Daniel Butterworth, Matt Butterworth, Richard Byrnes, Kerry Cannon, Janet Clouston, Veronica Colvin, Philip Cooper, Robbie Crane, Jesse Dayan, Shawnee Dean, Jen Delirium, Christine Druitt-Preston, Mark Dubner, Sharon Duymel, Katherine Edney, Jo Ernst, Michael Gawler, Anna-Carien Goosen, James Guppy, Matthew Hall-Fong, Naomie Hatherley, Petrina Hicks, Nicola Higgins, Kaswyn Hunt, Julie Hutchings, Sue Jarvis, Katherine Jenkins, Linda Kruger, Zai Kuang, Yianni Maggacis, Sangeeta Mahajan, Deborah Marks, Abbey McCulloch, Ray Monde, Freyja Moon, Liam Nunan, Alice Palmer, Alice Pulvers, Matthew Quick , Robyn Rich, Gwen Roberts, Jenny Rodgerson, Bruce Rowland, Gregory Semu, Wendy Sharpe, Randall Sinnamon, Gary Smith, Peter Steggall, Jane-Frances Tannock, Alex Thorby, Seabastion Toast, David Tucker, Jim van Geet, Sally West, Angus White, Joe Whyte, Madeleine Winch, Ainslie Wright, Caroline Zilinsky.

 

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Judge for the 2023 Art Prize announced

 

Lauretta Morton OAM
Director of Newcastle Art Gallery
will be the judge for the 2023 Art Prize

 

With over 35 years’ experience in the Visual Arts and Creative Industries sectors, Lauretta is the first female Director in Newcastle Art Gallery’s 66-year history. Her Directorship and artistic, curatorial leadership has achieved the highest audience participation in over a decade to award-winning nationally and internationally recognised exhibitions.

Securing record growth in benefaction and donations to the City of Newcastle’s $126M collection of over 7,000 works of art, Lauretta is a highly respected arts advocate committed to supporting the broader Gallery and Museum profession through multiple Industry Boards, Committees and Mentorship. Lauretta was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Australia Day Honours in recognition of her ‘outstanding and meritorious service’ to the museums and galleries sector.

 

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Entries have now closed

 

Read the Terms & Conditions of
entry to the Art Prize

 

Read about the history of
the Art Prize

 

email us
nn@friendsmanningvalley.com.au

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“Naked & Nude refers to two things: firstly the great tradition of the Nude: a person who is bare with no covering or decoration.

Secondly, a wider definition: something that is revealed, laid bare, unmasked or vulnerable”.

The biennial Naked & Nude Art Prize (previously the Manning Art Prize: Naked & Nude) began in 1990 with entries open to Australian artists. The Art Prize is a partnership between Friends of the Manning Regional Art Gallery and the Manning Regional Art Gallery. After 31 years, the Naked & Nude Art Prize has become a prestigious national event on the Australian Arts Calendar and is open to artists in a variety of media. For 2023, the Major Prize is $35,000 and the Val Good People’s Choice Prize is $2,000. The Friends acquire the Major Prize artwork and donate it to the Manning Regional Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

 

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Loribelle Spirovski wins the
Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021

 

Congratulations to Loribelle Spirovski, winner of the $30,000 Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021, for her work ‘Moving House’.

Judge Wendy Sharpe announced the winner and also two highly-commended and three commended art works.

Highly commended

Nick Stathopoulos, ‘Alone in the half-light’

Dagmar Cyrulla, ‘Grateful’

Commended

Tyler Arnold, ‘Self Portrait with kitchen knife’

Mica Pillemer, ‘Closing In’

Nicole Kelly, ‘Ubique’

 

View the catalogue for the Naked & Nude 2021 Art Prize here

 

 

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Judge Wendy Sharpe to announce
the winner of the
Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021

 

The Manning Regional Art Gallery is delighted to announce the accomplished artist Wendy Sharpe will judge the 2021 Naked & Nude Art Prize.

“Wendy Sharpe is one of Australia’s most awarded artists, and as a former finalist and winner of the Naked & Nude Art Prize, we’re very pleased to be welcoming her back in 2021 to judge the competition,” said Gallery Director, Rachel Piercy.

Manning Regional Art Gallery throws open the virtual doors to its biennial art prize, Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021, at 4 PM on Saturday 28 August 2021

For the first time, the winner for the Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021 will be announced via social media and websites on Saturday 28^thAugust at 4pm.

View the exhibition catalogue here

 

 

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Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021
Finalists announced

For the Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021, 62 artworks have been selected from a record number of entries from all over Australia.

The artworks include sculpture, painting, ceramics, drawing, photography, installation and video – highlighting the diversity of approaches to representation of the human form by contemporary artists in Australia.

We are delighted to announce the 60 finalists for the Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021:

Tyler Arnold, Maree Azzopardi, Lili Bird, Stephen Bird, Lew Brennan, Daniel Butterworth, Richard Byrnes, Ann Cape, Amber Carbury, Ming How Chan, Lori Cicchini, Robbie Crane, Gemma Lee Cross, Cam Crossley, Dagmar Cyrulla, Monika Diak, Ken Done, Graeme Drendel, Jo Ernst, Joanna Gambotto, Peter Gardiner, Stephen Glassborow, Jessica Guthrie, Patrick Heath, Sally Hook, Jules Irving, Nicole Kelly, Zai Kuang, Tatyana Kulida, Marco Lavielle, Ryan Lee, Georgie Lucock, Mark Marin, Deborah Marks, Lauren McCartney, Matilda Michell, Freyja Moon, Ingrid V. Morley, Nathan Paddison, Alice Palmer, Mica Pillemer, Rachel Pinel, Honey Long Prue Stent, Richard Reynolds, Gwen Roberts, Bruce Rowland, Michael Simms, Peter Smeeth, Loribelle Spirovski, Nick Stathopoulos, Vicki Sullivan, Alex Thorby, Seabastion Toast, Julie Vinci, Lilli Waters, Christina Waterson, Oliver Watts, Cathy Weiszmann, Vicki White, Christine Wrest-Smith.

 

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Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021

Entries have now closed.
Finalists will be announced on 16 July 2021

Click here for the Art Prize Terms and Conditions.

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Michelle Hawkins wins the Naked & Nude Art Prize 2019
People’s Choice Award

Congratulations to Michelle Hawkins winner of the $1,000 People’s Choice Award for her work ‘Kate’.

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Laura Matthews wins the
Naked & Nude Art Prize 2019

Congratulations to Laura Matthews winner of the $30,000 Naked & Nude Art Prize 2019, with her work ‘Sea Creatures’.

Judge Denise Mimmocchi, Senior Curator Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW made these comments about the winning work:

“This beautifully composed painting may be a landscape (or seascape) but it is one that pivots around the formation of the two female figures. Their connection to each other and to their beach setting is the true subject of the work. Despite the agitated surface texture of this painting; one that encapsulates the perpetual motion of the ocean setting, the work exudes a great sense of calm and intimacy. The figures here do indeed appear as ‘sea creatures’ as they are drawn into their environment, and lead us, as viewers, in with them. What small detail, we wonder, that has caught their attention on the shore?

The painting is ultimately such a successful one as it is charged with a strong sense of the physicality of the figures and the human connection between them and their environment.”

You can view the 2019 catalogue of finalists here.

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Naked & Nude Art Prize 2019
Gala Opening

The Gala Opening of the Naked & Nude Art Prize® 2019 will be at 6:30 PM be on 7 September 2019 at the Manning Regional Art Gallery. You can but tickets at the door on the night, at the Gallery during opening hours, or at Eventbrite (click here). You can also buy tickets in Taree at Bass N Blues Music and Margaret’s Underfashions.

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Naked & Nude Art Prize 2019
Finalists announced

The shortlist of has been revealed for Naked & Nude Art Prize 2019 with 58 artists selected from a record number of entries from artists all over Australia.

The artworks include sculpture, painting, ceramics, drawing, photography, installation and video – highlighting the diversity of approaches to representation of the human form by contemporary artists in Australia.

The 2019 Finalists are:

Laura Badertscher, Eva Beltran, Matteo Bernasconi, Satu Bushell, Daniel Butterworth, Jodi Clark, Robbie Crane, Gemma Cross, Cam Crossley , Dagmar Cyrulla, Ryan William Daffurn, Jackson Davies, Beverley Davies, Jesse Dayan, Tamara Dean, Jesse Dolman, Ken Done, Olivier Duhamel, Rory Fink, Stefano Flonta, Todd Fuller, Caroline Gibbes, Jessica Guthrie, Rachel  Hannan, Lyn Harrison, Geoff Harvey, Michelle Hawkins, Sally Hook, Vanessa Howells, Julie Hutchings, Zai Kuang, Elena Larkin, Kim Leutwyler, Laura Matthews, Jocelyn Maughan, Joanne Mulcahy-Zubani, , Nathan Paddison, Freyja Palmer, Alice Palmer, Tom Phillips, Anton Piche, Jenny Pollak, James Price, Kate Rae, Jenny Rodgerson, Bruce Rowland, Ben Ryan, Michael Simms, Roger Skinner, Gary Smith, Mark Thompson,  John van der Kolk, Jan Hendrik (Hans) van Weerd, Peter Wegner, Nicole Welch, Leigha White, Ainslie Wright, Caroline Zilinsky.

The winner of the prize will receive $30,000 prize money and the winning artwork becomes part of the Gallery’s collection. The judge for the 2019 award is Denise Mimmocchi, Senior Curator Australian Art at the Art Gallery NSW, with the winner announced at the Gala Opening event Saturday 7 September 6.30pm.

The popular People’s Choice voting will take place from September 7, 2019, until October 13, 2019, giving locals the chance to vote for their favourite artwork. The People’s Choice Award of $1000 will be announced on 15 October 2019.

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Naked & Nude Art Prize 2019
Judge announced

Friends of the Manning Regional Art Gallery are pleased to announce that Denise Mimmocchi,
Senior Curator Australian Art at the Art Gallery NSW,
will judge the Naked & Nude Art Prize® 2019

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Naked & Nude Art Prize 2019

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Entries have now closed
Entrants whose artwork has been selected will be notified on Friday 26 July 2019

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Results of the 2017 Art Prize

Melbourne artist Dagmar Cyrulla is the winner of this year’s $16,000 acquisitive Manning Art Prize: Naked and Nude for her oil on linen entry titled The phone call IV.

Winners were announced by judge John McDonald, art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, on 2 September at the exhibition’s gala opening at the Manning Regional Art Gallery.

The competition attracted 335 entries, with 60 finalists selected for exhibition.

Mr McDonald said the field of artists was “of a very high standard”.

Second prize of $3000 went to Peter Churcher from Port Douglas for the oil on canvas work titled Kaue.

The Robin Norling Bequest Prize of $1000 was won by Nick Mourtzakis from Collingwood, Victoria for his oil on linen work Cadmium Green.

Highly commendeds were awarded to Zai Kuang from Clayton, Victoria, for the oil on canvas Dry Season; Stephen Bird from Maroubra, NSW, for glazed earthenware Delilah and Samson and Mark Feiler from Brisbane for his archival print on cotton rag AlanaBlu2.

The 2017 Manning Art Prize: Naked & Nude finalists are: Behzad Alipour Karryn Argus Troy Argyros Michael Armstrong Stephen Bird Tracey Buxton Amber Carbury Peter Churcher Jodi Clark Dianne Coulter Nicole Crampton Dagmar Cyrulla Carolyn Davis Nada DeCat Rodney Edelsten Sheridan Elphick Leah Emery Mark Feiler Prudence Flint Guy Gilmour James Guppy James Guppy, Hilary Herrmann Jessica Guthrie Kristin Hardiman Tannya Harricks Geoff Harvey Sally Hook Yvette Hugill Zai Kuang Tatyana Kulida Selway Lampard miriam Loftus Stewart MacFarlane William Maguire Simon Mark Laura Matthews Emma Michaelis Matilda Michell Nick Mourtzakis Kellie Orr Prue Platt-Hepworth Glen Preece Matthew Quick Kate Rae Bruce Rowland Sally Ryan Gria Shead Michael Simms Gary Smith Vicki Sullivan Helga Visser Alex Weltlinger Sally West Leigha White Lucila Zentner