Tasmanian artist wins 2017 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Tess Brunton
Updated November 10 2017 - 10:15am, first published 10:00am
WINNING WORK: 'Portrait of Pat Brassington' won the 2017 Portia Geach Memorial Award. Picture: Supplied/Amanda Davies
WINNING WORK: 'Portrait of Pat Brassington' won the 2017 Portia Geach Memorial Award. Picture: Supplied/Amanda Davies

A Tasmanian artist has won Australia’s most prestigious portraiture art prize for women artists, the 2017 Portia Geach Memorial Award.

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Tess Brunton

Tess Brunton

Journalist

I recently returned from across the ditch where I worked at New Zealand Fairfax paper The Timaru Herald and developed a love of mountains. Originally I'm a mainlander from an area known for cheese, the Bega Valley, who also dabbled in radio at ABC RCAFF before finding a place in newspapers. I can often be found hiking, caving or climbing when I'm not cursing at my work computer or technology in general.

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