From 2010, the Helen Lempriere Scholarship was awarded to three recipients selected in the Sculpture by the Sea in Sydney.
The award was acquisitive, and winners were brought into the collection displayed along the Sculpture Walk at Werribee Park.
The local government authority, Wyndham City Council, would also purchase works for deployment as sculptural installations in the municipality.
[2] In 2009, the award was withheld when a new selection process for finalists (a change from application to invitation) resulted in what The Age newspaper called "a disaster", when an insufficient number of entries of good standard led to the withholding of the exhibition and award for that year.
[3] The trustees of the Helen Lempriere Bequest, Perpetual Private Wealth, announced in December 2009 that the award would no longer be made.