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National Acclaim: Pat Torres and Batchelor Press Take Top Honours at AWAPAs
Home National Acclaim: Pat Torres and Batchelor Press Take Top Honours at AWAPAs
06 January 2026
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National recognition

The Institute congratulates Pat Mamanyjun Torres and Batchelor Institute Press on being awarded the inaugural Nur: Best Art Critical Writing by an Indigenous Australian Award at the national Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) in Perth late last year. This award is sponsored by prominent artist and academic Fiona Foley.

Pat, a current Masters student at the Institute, won the award for her essay in All my Country, the Batchelor Institute Art Collection, published by Batchelor Institute Press in 2024. Pat’s essay is titled Soul Journeys: The role of plants, people and animals in the re-imagining and remembering of Australia's First Nations artists' lives through the BIITE art collection. Her essay was commissioned by the book’s guest editor-in-chief Wendy Ludwig and editor Maurice O’Riordan in recognition of Pat’s longstanding connection with the Institute, including as its first writer-in-residence, and because of her key advocacy of the First Nations bush foods industry.

The AWAPAs are in fact international awards hosted by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Pat’s award is one of 10 award categories including Best Book which  went to Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art (authors: Deidre Brown, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Ngarino Ellis) published by Auckland University Press. As an award-winning publisher in the 2025 AWAPAs, Batchelor Press sits among esteemed company including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Flinders University Art Museum, Monash University Publishing and The Miegunyah Press.

For further details on the awards, view the list of AWAPA winners and highly commended entries.
To learn more about the All my Country publication, visit Batchelor Institute Press.