The 2020 Peter Walker Fine Arts Writing Award: Judge’s Report


Megan Martin

Australiana, Vol 43 no 2, May 2021

The annual Peter Walker Fine Art Writing Award, established to encourage authors to write for Australiana, has now operated for more than 20 years. As readers and researchers, we all benefit from Peter Walker’s continuing interest and support but, as the 2020 judge for the award, it seems to me that the task of the judge only gets more difficult. As I sat down to re-read my way through the four fat issues of Australiana published in 2020, I got the wobbles. There were so many articles worthy of notice.

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