Talking with Painters

When I won that art prize (part 2)- James Drinkwater

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Show Notes

In part 2 of the series ‘When I won that art prize’ we go back to episode 29 when James Drinkwater recalled winning the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2014.

The award included a three month residency in Paris at the Cité Internationale des arts, a dream come true for any young painter. However, when he and his young family set off for France, not everything went according to plan.

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Solo show at Edwina Corlette, ‘You could just make a painting and write it all in there – new paintings from the slip room’, 3 – 23 May, 2023

Links

Episode 29, James Drinkwater on Talking with Painters

Episode 115, The Archibald Winners

YouTube video of interview with Packing Room prize winner Andrea Huelin

James Drinkwater on Instagram

James Drinkwater at Nanda\Hobbs

James Drinkwater at Edwina Collette

James Drinkwater at Nicholas Thompson Gallery

Lottie Consalvo

Photo of James Drinkwater by Maria Stoljar (2017)

‘Encrusting the marvellous heart’, diptych, 2015, oil and collage on hardboard, 180 x 244cm

Finalist Wynne Prize 2015

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