By Sarah Dingle, staff
Updated
Melbourne artist Gareth Sansom has won the 20th and final annual Dobell Drawing Prize, for a collection of works produced during a visit to a remote Aboriginal community.
Sansom created the 20-drawing series Made in Wadeye while visiting the Northern Territory settlement where his wife was working as a doctor.
He used a range of materials including ink, pencil, felt-tipped pen and earth.
The 73-year-old came to prominence in the 1960s for his unconventional paintings and has won numerous awards.
The Dobell prize is in its 20th year, with 47 finalists chosen from 639 submissions.
It is the last time the $30,000 prize will be awarded in its present form, with the Art Gallery of New South Wales to instead launch a drawing biennial from 2014.
Topics: visual-art, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, wadeye-0822
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