Galen College Student Wins $1000 Art Award

Published on 25 February 2025

Galen College Student Wins $1000 Art Award

Danielle Tyers, formerly of Galen College has won the Wangaratta Art Gallery Friends Inc. Student Art Award for 2024.

The Student Art Award is an initiative of the Wangaratta Art Gallery Friends to support and acknowledge an outstanding Visual Art student in the Rural City of Wangaratta. The award is valued at $1000 and is open to all Year 12 students in the region.

The award is not only an acknowledgement of outstanding work but is intended to assist visual arts students to follow their aspirations into further studies or a dedicated pathway into the creative sector.

Wangaratta Art Gallery Friends Inc President, Deb Kemp says:

Each year, applicants are assessed on the standard and quality of their work but also their goals and dedication are taken into account. Our judges look for evidence of a well-developed visual arts single project, or folio presentation, from their Year 12 work. The Friends are thrilled to be presenting this important prize to such a young woman who has demonstrated a strong commitment to the arts.

The panel, consisting of members of the Wangaratta Art Gallery Friends committee and Wangaratta Art Gallery staff, selected Ms Tyers as the winner of the 2024 award.

Ms Tyers says her winning work was heavily influenced by her interest in dance as well as by the colour palette and technique of artist Anna Louise Richardson, whose work she viewed while on an excursion to Wangaratta Art Gallery during the display of Richardson’s exhibition, The Good.

The 2024 Student Art Award winner was announced at a Wangaratta Art Gallery Friends event on Saturday 8 March.

For further information, please contact Gallery Director, Rachel Arndt on r.arndt@wangaratta.vic.gov.au