FOR the second time, glass artist Scott Chaseling has won the Rosalie Gascoigne Memorial Award.

The Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation’s new patron, National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan, made the announcement tonight (November 7) at the CAPO gala in the East Space Gallery on Lake Burley Griffin.

Chaseling, who also won the award in 1996, is an artist with an international reputation and the former winner of awards such as the Ranamok Glass Prize, the Hindmarsh Prize and the Gold Medal of the Bavarian State Prize, Germany. He will use the Gascoigne Award, jointly funded by Bates & Pickering and CAPO, to create a new body of work for his first solo exhibition in 10 years, to be held at Canberra Glassworks, where he produces his work.

In what was its 37th annual grant round, CAPO celebrated local artists and arts patronage by announcing the winners of 16 awards, which provide financial and in-kind support for a range of new arts projects.

The Robert Foster Memorial Award, jointly funded by TSA and CAPO, went to Marissa Ziesing, for the development of new silversmithing and jewellery work in Canberra, to be launched in London at the Goldsmiths’ Fair 2021.

There were two winners of a MPS Travel & Tours Award this year. The first went to Alex Lundy for her art-poetry collaboration project with Eve Murray-Fairhall and Madalyn Trewin, while Lexi Sekuless, co-founder of Lakespeare, won the other award to help her to produce and perform in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” across Canberra outdoor sites.

Marilou Chagnaud won the Capital Chemist Award, allowing her to work with Nicholas Harper from Measured Framing to develop customised timber frames.

The inaugural Creations of Manuka Award went to glass artist Madisyn Zabel, assisting her to take neon classes, to create new installation work for the Canberra Glassworks in 2021.

Another new award, the Balmain Financial Emerging Artist award went to Dan Power to create a series of engraved animal skulls as part of his exploration into  conservation of Australian flora and fauna in the Anthropocene.

The Cook Creative Writing Prize was awarded to Greg Gould, who will use the funding to help turn his directing and writing skills towards the film medium.

The Urban Pantry Manuka Emerging Artist Award went to Katrina Leske, while PSC Capital Insurance Brokers Emerging Artist Award went to Bryan Foong, who intersects the biological sciences and medicine with queer and painting practice.

The Craft ACT Award was given to embroidery artist Sharon Peoples, while The McGrath Woden Emerging Artist Award went to artist Jess Higgins to explore the medium of charcoal she collected from the landscape after the 2019-2020 bushfire season.

Other awards went to Hannah Gason, to purchase a glass grinder, to Mahala Hill to install a gas kiln and to ceramicist Sarit Cohen to support the building of intimate hand-made ceramic objects.

More details at capo.org.au