Duke Gold Coast Art Prize

Entries closed Friday 23 September

$5,000 Peoples Choice Award sponsored by

 

 

The Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize is an acquisitive art award and exhibition, open to all forms of art media except photography. Photographic based artists are encouraged to enter our annual Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. This Prize is managed by Gold Coast City Gallery and began its life in 1968 with the inaugural Gold Coast Art Prize. The prize entered a new era in 2007 with the support of the Stan and Maureen Duke Foundation.

 

Stan and Maureen Duke moved to Mackay in 1964 where Stan set up a practice as a General Surgeon and Urologist and Maureen as a General Physician with a special interest in Pediatrics. They were the first specialists in their fields to practice full time in Mackay and made a great contribution to the community there, both in their professional capacities as well in their support of community life. Maureen died of breast cancer in 1986, aged 51.

 

Stan Duke retired on the Gold Coast and established the Foundation to provide ongoing support to a variety of medical and cultural needs. Sadly, he passed away on 1 Nov 2008 and Gold Coast City Gallery is deeply committed to continuing his vision and legacy.