And the 2022 winner of the $25,000 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is...

PLC Sydney is excited to announce that Sydney artist Jody Graham has been awarded the $25,000 acquisitive Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2022, for her drawing ‘Cinder Dance’.

The Perry Prize Exhibition of Finalists was officially opened on Friday 25 February at Adelaide Perry Gallery. Special guest speaker, and this year’s judge, Dr Andrew Frost, writer, critic, curator and documentary maker spoke of the high standard of works received. From over 400 entries, Andrew’s shortlist comprised of 46 works. From it, Dr Frost highly commended the entries of Margaret McKenna, Luanne Mitchelmore and Nadia Odlum, before announcing Jody Graham’s work as recipient of the 2022 award.

In a statement about ‘Cinder Dance’ Jody said, ‘While researching the Black Summer Fires I was impacted by stories from people who were affected. During this time I connected with Den Barber who runs Yarrabin Cultural Connections (YCC). Den is an Aboriginal Man, descendant of the Traditional Custodians from Mudgee of the Wiradjuri people in the central tablelands of New South Wales. What I discovered from Den helped me understand more about cultural burning and how it is all about caring for the environment. When I made ‘Cinder Dance’, I invited nature to participate in the process and submerged the drawing into a dam. I then used rocks and tree sap to mark and colour the drawing and hit and swung large charcoal branches at the drawing.’

Watch the Opening and Announcement of the 2022 Perry Prize Winner.

Download the 2022 Adelaide Perry Prize Catalogue of Finalists here


Congratulations to this year’s finalists in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing!

  • Suzanne Archer
  • Yvonne Boag
  • Peter Burgess
  • Michelle Cawthorn
  • Louisa Chircop
  • Melvy Connell
  • Pauline Dewar
  • James Drinkwater
  • Yvonne East
  • David Eastwood
  • Robyn Evans
  • David Fairbairn
  • Rowan Fotheringham
  • Laurie Franklin
  • Todd Fuller
  • Anna Glynn
  • Jody Graham
  • Lorna Grear
  • Ross Halfacree
  • Janette Hanrahan
  • Frances Hansen
  • Nathalie Hartog-Gautier
  • Mark Hetherington
  • Evie Homewood
  • Lewis Ihnatko
  • Locust Jones
  • Chantelle Lacroix
  • Penny Mason
  • Dennis McCart
  • Margaret McKenna
  • Noel McKenna
  • Luanne Mitchelmore
  • Olivia Moroney
  • Nadia Odlum
  • Catherine O'Donnell
  • Emma Pattenden
  • Lindy Sale
  • Peter Sharp
  • Jeannette Siebols
  • Jack Stahel
  • Hiromi Tango
  • Kate Vassallo
  • Craig Waddell
  • Paul White
  • Joel Wolter
  • Belinda Yee
  • This is an unordered list