VCA Art draws on the strong legacy of the National Gallery Art School and the Prahran Art School, whose graduates include Arthur Boyd, Rupert Bunny, Margaret Preston, Hugh Ramsay, Fred Williams, Joy Hester and Clifton Pugh. More recent graduates include Bill Henson, Jenny Watson, Patricia Piccinini, Susan Norrie and Ricky Swallow. VCA Art Alumni have been awarded Australia's most prestigious art prizes: Lewis Miller was the winner of the 1998 Archibald Prize for Portraiture and in 2004 went to the Middle East as an official artist for the Australian War Memorial. In 1999 Ricky Swallow received Australia's richest contemporary art award, the Contempora 5, and was named by Australian Art Collector magazine as Australia's most collectable artist and Kathy Temin was the 1999 Moet and Chandon Art Prize winner. In 2004 Simone Slee, Guy Benfield and Louisa Bufardeci and in 2005 Viveka Marksjo and Michael Kutschbach were awarded Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships. Adrian Doyle won a 2004 Marten Bequest Scholarship and Prudence Flint was the winner of the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. The first major survey of Bill Henson opened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in January 2005 and toured to the National Gallery of Victoria in April. Patricia Piccinini represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale of Art in 2003, and Ricky Swallow represented Australia in 2005. He is the tenth VCA alumnus or staff member to represent Australia in recent years at the Venice Biennale. Callum Morton is the inaugural recipient of the Helen Macpherson Smith Commission set up by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and the Helen Macpherson Trust and worth at least $100,000. Marcus Wills who graduated from VCA Art in 1995 won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 1999 and the Archibald Prize in 2006.