All Media: The June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism

The June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism recognises a significant contribution to arts journalism. It encompasses both shortform news and feature-length work across all media formats, and excellence in the reporting on or analysis of arts issues. This may include profiles of artists, features, breaking news, investigations and the examination of the creative arena. 

Judges will give special regard to impact, incisiveness, technique, creativity, public benefit, the craft of storytelling and the breadth of research. 

Work entered may relate to any aspect of the creative or performing arts. The word ‘arts’ is to be interpreted broadly so it can include, for example, journalism and criticism covering radio and television, music, photography, architecture, film, food and wine, literature, visual arts, performing arts and related industries.

Through the support of the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the Hantomeli Foundation, both the winner of the June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism and the winner of the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism will receive $5000 in prize money.

Books are not eligible to be entered into the Arts Prizes. These should be entered into the Walkley Book Award.

Entries in this category must be a single piece of work or a series of no more than three related pieces.

Each entry to the Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism is judged on how well it responds to: 

• the category description; and 
• judging criteria. 

For more information on how judging works, including the judging criteria, please refer to the FAQs.

Your entry must comply with the following Terms & Conditions.

 

Prize Partner

 

2022 Winner

Chip Le Grand, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, “Rogue Gallery: Tristian Koenig and the case of the missing artworks” “Top global dealer among victims of art rogue” and “Twiggy steps in to help artist “fleeced” by gallery owner”

The judges said, “Chip Le Grand’s exhaustively researched and superbly written series of stories lifted the lid on an unregulated and unexamined corner of the contemporary art world, reuniting emerging and vulnerable artists with lost works, and giving impetus to multiple legal actions against a prominent gallerist. Investigative journalism at its best, it was also a riveting read.”

Chip Le Grand is the chief reporter of The Age newspaper. He has worked as a journalist for 30 years, principally in Melbourne, where he writes about the city, its people and its politics.

The Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism

The Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism celebrates the unique contribution of critics to our cultural landscape and the specialist, detailed knowledge they draw on to contextualise works of art.

Criticism includes both reviews responding to the work itself, and deeper criticism placing work in the context of the artist’s oeuvre, specific genres and/or the current social, political or cultural landscape. 

Judges will consider critical thinking, balanced, rigorous argument and evaluation, depth of knowledge and ability to contextualise, and engaging, illuminating voices.

Judges will pay particular attention to the entrant’s:

• Knowledge of their given area
• Ability to communicate and connect artistic ideas and practices with general audiences, and/or audiences with specialist knowledge
• Contextualisation of culture – both in terms of when and where works were created, and when and where they are being consumed (i.e. how does work fit into a culture?)

Through the support of the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the Hantomeli Foundation, both the winner of the June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism and the winner of the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism will receive $5000 in prize money.

Books are not eligible to be entered into the Arts Prizes. These should be entered into the Walkley Book Award.

Entries in this category must be a single piece or up to three pieces showcasing a body of work. This award is open only to individual entrants.

Each entry to the Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism is judged on how well it responds to: 

• the category description; and 
• judging criteria. 

 

For more information on how judging works, including the judging criteria, please refer to the FAQs.

Your entry must comply with the following Terms & Conditions.

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2022 Winner

Sarah Krasnostein, The Saturday Paper, “Solos” “Alone” and “Katla

The judges said, “In the time of Covid, Sarah Krasnostein explored the artistic possibilities of television, as it met our desires for distraction and connection. She evoked new dramatic landscapes, as well as cultural change. There was depth of reference, a sense of formal advance, dry wit, and emotional openness.” 

Sarah Krasnostein is the bestselling author of The Trauma Cleaner, The Believer, and the Quarterly Essay Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness & Vulnerability in Australia. She is The Saturday Paper’s television critic. Her work appears in a variety of publications in Australia, the US and the UK.