09/10/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 SCA Alumni Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship recipients, Helga Groves (Mid-Career/Established Category, $30,000) and Jack Wotton (Emerging Category, $15,000).
We applaud all nine finalists on their exceptional work and thank our judging panel Professor Julie Rrap, Director of SCA, Rachel Kent, CEO of Bundanon, and artist Judy Watson.
Helga Groves received the mid-career/established scholarship for her series of works ‘Ice Remnant #1’ ‘Ice Remnant #2’, ‘Inside an ice core – capsules of ancient air frozen in time’ and ‘Interwoven Matter’.
“Helga’s work is quiet, contemplative and highly focused, grounded in forensic attention to detail and a deeply sustained inquiry. Moving between the extremes of the northern and southern hemispheres, her practice plays beautifully between the micro and macro: from the enormity of glaciers and ice flows to the extraordinary structure of a single ice crystal,” said the judging panel. The scholarship will support Helga to undertake research in Finland.
Jack Wotton received the emerging scholarship for his work ‘Disasters 0-9’. Prompted by firsthand experience of the 2019 bushfires, the work combines photographic etchings, records, painting and sound to explore environmental and psychological destruction, memory and the aftermath of disaster.
“Jack’s work is deeply experimental, bringing object and sound together to evoke catastrophe in a way that is both haunting and subtle. The echo of that catastrophe moves through the work, through the body, and reaches somewhere beyond words,” commented the panel.
With the scholarship, Jack will undertake a residency in Leipzig, Germany, developing his practice through specialist training in record lathe engraving and advanced printmaking.
You can view the SCA Alumni Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship exhibition until 7 November 2026.
Exhibition opening photos: Garry Trinh Photography
Exhibition documentation: DOCUMENT PHOTOGRAPHY
