Wildlife Art Prize Published Monday, 16 September 2002The SA
Museum is establishing an art prize for natural history, with
total prizemoney of $85,000. With so much fascinating and
sometimes great naturalist and landscape art being produced over
the last two hundred years, originating with the works by Ray
Parkinson (working for Sir Joseph Banks) onboard Captain Cooks
First Voyage, the South Australian Museum is now hosting an
award, which opens to applicants in May 2003. The submitted
artwork must depict a natural history topic. By definition: "A
work dealing with natural objects, animal, vegetable or
mineral." Landscapes must focus on natural setting and, for
example, include animals, forest material, underwater scenes or
geological phenomena. They will not have a man-made influence
which might include buildings, stock, vineyards, cleared land
etc. Frederick George Waterhouse, after whom this award is
named, worked at the British Museum as an eminent zoologist. He
became the first curator of the emerging So