Recent Aussie Visual Art news
Recent Art Awards were announced and here are some of the winners..
Cairns-based painter Ian Waldron has won the $35,000 Glover Prize for landscape painting for his work Cockle Creek. Imants Tillers, one of this year’s judges, said Waldron was the first Indigenous Australian to win the Glover.
Danie Mellor has won the $15,000 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing for his diptych The Offerings (A Custom Ritual). The work was selected from a field of 407 entries by judge Cathy Leahy, senior curator of drawings and prints at the National Gallery of Victoria. ”These are impressive and memorable drawings. The enigmatic encounter represented in them, together with their impressive formal qualities and complexities of meaning, invite sustained contemplation,” she commented.
Also shortlisted for the award were Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Dagmar E Cyrulla, David Fairbairn and Sallie Moffatt.
Scott Bycroft has won the $25,000 National Photographic Portrait Prize for his portrait of teenager Zareth Long at a school swimming carnival. Bycroft won out over a field of 43 finalists, including Australian Art Collector photographer Stephen Oxenbury, who was shortlisted for his portrait of Owen Yalandja.
Gosia Wlodarczak has won the inaugural non-acquisitive $10,000 Stanthorpe Art Festival prize for her drawing Lawrence Armchair Graphite.
Kim Buck has won the $5,000 Limestone Coast Art Prize for her charcoal drawing Faithless (the weight of it all).
Carmen Reid has won the $10,000 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize.
Tanmaya Bingham, Titania Henderson, John Kelly, Marco Luccio, Saffron Newey and Julie Shiels are among the artists shortlisted for the open medium $15,000 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize.
Among those named finalists in the Glover Prize, $30,000 landscape painting award are Rodney Pople, Stephanie Tabram, Megan Walch, Philip Wolfhagen, Helen Wright, Nicholas Blowers,Neil Haddon, Kristin Headlam and David Keeling. The winner will be announced on 5 March 2010.
William Eicholtz, Kate Rohde, Jud Wimhurst, Louise Paramor, Caroline Rothwell and Jonathan Leahey are among the artists shortlisted for the McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award, to be announced in November 2010.
Painter Michael Zavros has been selected by the Lismore Regional Gallery to judge the Northern Rivers Portrait Prize.
Gabrielle Jones has been awarded a residency at the Valparaiso Foundation, Mojacar, Spain. She intends travel in late 2010 or in 2011.
These results are from the Australian Art Collector Magazine.
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