The McCubbin Medal is an award judges make each year for The Best In Show at the Rotary Club of Box Hill Burwood Whitehorse Art Show.
The inaugural award was made in 1994 and since that time there have been 24 artists who have won the award, with Chris White (1994, 1997, 2007) and Lorraine Burns (2001, 2004, 2013), each having won the McCubbin on three occasions and Lee Machelak (2015 & 2016) won twice.
The McCubbin Medal Award, is named after Frederick McCubbin (1855–1917), one of the pre-eminent Australian Artists.
It was Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Louis Abrahams and Arthur Streeton who founded the Box Hill Artists’ Camp in 1885 in the vicinity of the area adjacent to the Box Hill Golf Club in Station Street Box Hill. Many of McCubbin’s paintings depicted the area, and one of his favourites – Lost – was painted in 1886.
The Rotary Club of Box Hill Burwood is indebted to the McCubbin family for allowing us to strike a medal in the memory of Frederick McCubbin, and to present this medallion each year for the Best In Show – tying the roots of The Box Hill Burwood Rotary Art Show back to the start of Australian Impressionism.
1994 Chris White
1995 Kevin Taylor
1996 Peter Smales
1997 Chris White
1998 Ramon Horsfield
1999 Harris Smith
2000 Edward Berry
2001 Lorraine Burns
2002 Freda Surgenor
2003 Kevin Taylor
2004 Lorraine Burns
2005 Renata Bruynzeel
2006 Fiona Bilbrough
2007 Chris White
2008 Gregory Smith
2009 Wykeham Perry
2010 Ern Trembath
2011 Angelo Quabba
2012 David Brayshaw
2013 Lorraine Burns
2014 Doug Sealy
2015 Lee Machelak
2016 Lee Machelak
2017 William Stanfield
2018 Maxwell Wilks
2019 John Orlando Birt
2022 Angelo Quabba
2023 David Chen
