The Alumni Art Prize seeks to engage Damascus College alumni in the life and community of Damascus by producing a piece of art that explores our motto ‘To Live By the Light of Christ’.

2024 Submissions Now Open

Closing date: Friday 25th August 2023 at 4pm

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Are you or someone you know a College alumni with an artistic flair?

Alumni Art Prize Recipients

Shelby Sherritt
2023 Alumni Art Prize Recipient

Class of 2013

Maria Stratford
2021 Alumni Art Prize Recipient

Class of 1974

Rachael Beardall
2020 Alumni Art Prize Recipient

Class of 2014

Amelia Johnson
2019 Alumni Art Prize Recipient

Class of 2017

Seona Murnane
2018 Alumni Art Prize Recipient

Class of 1995

Peter Thomas
2017 Alumni Art Prize Recipient

Class of 1992

Nareeda Lewers
2016 Alumni Art Prize Recipient

Class o 1996

Kim Anderson
2015 Alumni Art Prize Recipient

Class of 1997

What is the Alumni Art Prize?

Launched in 2014, the College has engaged the services of an alumni each year to create a piece of artwork for Damascus.

The Damascus College Alumni Art Prize offers great exposure for the artist. For 12 months the chosen artwork is prominently displayed in the Mercy Wing Visitor Reception on campus. The artist and artwork are featured in the Damascus publication The Road, and the artwork is shared with the community in the College Newsletter as well as social media sites.

The Alumni Art Project is open to Damascus College Alumni (including past students or staff from Sacred Heart College, St Paul’s College and St Martin’s in the Pines).

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Damascus College will pay a fee to the artist who has been commissioned to undertake the work.

Damascus College will pay a sum of $2,000 to the artist who has been commissioned to undertake the work. The artist will be chosen and notified in August with the art piece and artists statement to be delivered to the College by mid-November. This fee will be paid in two parts. The first payment of $500 will be paid upon the signing of the Alumni Art Prize Artists Agreement. The second payment of $1500 will be paid in January after the work has been delivered.


Alumni at Damascus College are defined as past students and staff of Damascus College and its foundation colleges, Sacred Heart, St Paul’s and St Martin’s in the Pines.

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