Gallery
Major Prizes & Art Awards
A winner and/or finalist in the Archibald, Sulman, Wynne, Doug Moran National, Australian Women’s Weekly, Melrose,
H.C.Richards Memorial, Caltex Centenary, Dante Alighieri, Narcoorte and others
Gallery
Major Prizes & Art Awards
Prizes & Awards
Portraits
1954 – 1998
Description
Rigby was a finalist in the Archibald 24 times, often in tandem with Sulman & Wynne Prizes.
He was also a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, and won Australia’s richest art prize at the time, the Australian Women’s Weekly Art Prize, 1958.
Prizes & Awards
Genre
1955 – 1998
Description
The Italian travelling art scholarship won in 1955 opened new experience after a restrained post World War II era. The 1958 Women’s Weekly Art Prize of 1,000 pounds paid for land on acreage in Brisbane’s western suburbs.
Prizes:
Sulman Prize
Caltex Centenary Art Prize
H.C. Richards Memorial Prize
Melrose Prize
Narcoorte Acquisitive Exhibition Prize