The Emerging Artists Support Scheme is now quite an institution at the ANU School of Art & Design, and its latest recipients were announced at the school’s Graduating Exhibition 2024.

Founded in 1988 by former art school director, David Williams, the EASS has grown over the past three decades with the support of individuals, businesses, galleries and organisations.

On hand for the announcements was Mark Parton, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, who, as part of the Assembly’s involvement in the scheme, chose two works that will be displayed in the Assembly building for a year, with a $500 grant going to each of those chosen students, Helen Heslop and Yvonne Poole.

Patrons of the uniquely Canberran scheme offer a variety of awards, also commissioning and acquiring new artworks, providing a boost the beginning of challenging independent careers, also bolstering the prominence of art and design in local regions.

Recipients of the 2024 EASS awards:

• ACT Legislative Assembly Prize – Helen Heslop, Yvonne Poole
• Alliance Française Exhibition Award – Jemma Copland, Yvonne Poole, Millicent Yates
• ANU Art Collection Acquisition Award – Rowena Evans
• ANU MakerSpace Graduate in Residence Award – Ben Claridge, Benjamin Coultas-Roberts
• Art Monthly Australasia Subscription Award – Isobel Waters
• Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) Exhibition Award – Ira gold, Tanya King, James O’Rourke
• Basil Sellers Exhibition and Residency Award – Sienna Curby
• Belco Arts Exhibition Award – Rowena Evans
• Canberra Contemporary Art Space Mentoring and Exhibition Award – Litia Roko, Jackson Taylor
• Canberra Grammar School Residency Award – Alicia Cox
• Canberra Museum & Gallery Ramp Showcase Award – Philip Agius
• Canberra Potters Artist Residency & Internship Award – James O’Rourke
• Canberra Spinners and Weavers Exhibition Award – Farishta Arzoo, Jemma Copland, Melanie Olde
• Country to Coast Residency & Durras Hall Exhibition Award – Ella McLaughlin
• COX Architecture Award – Sienna Curby
• Craft + Design Canberra Emerging Contemporaries Award – Philip Agius, Tess Carlton, Jemma Copland, Group project – Ruby Davies, Tilda Joy & Ali Mencshelyi, Rachael Hanrick, Tilda Joy, Liv Kidston, Melanie Olde, Isobel Waters
• Emerging Artist Support Scheme Acquisition Award – Sienna Curby, Jackson Taylor, Millicent Yates
• Friends of Drill Hall Gallery Acquisition Award – Tess Carlton
• Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Exhibition Award – Jackson Taylor
• Grainger Gallery Award – Rowena Evans
• M16 Artspace Artist in Residence & Exhibition Award – Litia Roko, Jackson Taylor
• Megalo Print Studio Graduate Residency Award – Farishta Arzoo, Rowena Evans, Claire Fletcher, Lachlan Tumeth
• PhotoAccess Residency Award – Anita Pollard
• Strathnairn Arts Association Anita McIntyre Residency Award – Yvonne Poole
• Strathnairn Arts Association Exhibition Award – Alicia Cox, Sophie Kihara-Murer, Christopher Whitfeld, Ebony Winnett
• The 2024 studio studio Award, Farishta Arzoo, Lachlan Tumeth
• Tuggeranong Arts Centre Exhibition Award – Melanie Olde

Awarded throughout the year

• ANU School of Art & Design Drawing Prize – Lisa Stevenson
• Peter and Lena Karmel Honours Scholarship in the School of Art – Helen Heslop
• John and Elizabeth Baker Honours Scholarship – Jackson Taylor
• Kate and Bill Guy Art History and Theory Honours Prize – Eleanor Otoole
• ANU Visual Arts Endowment Scholarship (BVART) – Xiaofan Charlotte Liang
• ANU Visual Arts Endowment Scholarship (BDESN) – Eliza Laithwaite
• Gray Smith and Joan Scott Prize – Jackson Taylor
• EASS Patrons Higher Degree Research Award – Harriet Schwarzrock & Melita Dahl
• The Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Art History and Curatorship – Emma Rafidi
• The Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Art History and Theory Honours – Tamara Tahapehi
• The Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Introduction to Art History and Curatorship – Edeline Ohk
• Nigel Thomson Travel Grant – Anne-Marie Mansour
• Max Hawk Travelling Scholarship in the School of Art – Grace Downey
• Peter and Lena Karmel Anniversary Prize in Art – Litia Roko