2018 Judges
left to right: Jane Stewart, Michael Zavros, Clothilde Bullen
photo: Jessica King
2018 winner
Neil Haddon
The Visit
Oil and enamel paint on aluminium panel
150 x 180 cm
Judges’ comments
A thoughtful, multilayered painting that incorporates numerous visual references to contact history in Tasmania and beyond. They include colonial landscapes by John Glover, an image of H G Wells on a bicycle, and the Tahitian paintings by French artist Paul Gauguin. The blue targets hover like eyes gazing at the audience while simultaneously providing a portal into the landscape. The artist’s distinctive, refined technique indicates a point of resolution in his practice that is well worthy of the prize.
Highly Commended
DAISY JAPULIJA, Billabong Country at Floodwater Time
JACOBUS CAPONE, Wounds 1 & 2
BETTY KUNTIWA PUMANI, Antara
TJUKUPATI JAMES, Kunga Kutjara
2018 Mercury People’s Choice Award
JENNIFER RIDDLE
Verdant Garden
Acrylic on canvas
156 x 141 cm
2018 Finalists
ALEX DAVERN, Outside, Cold, Nowhere To Go, Pigment print and vinyl on aluminium, 83 x 83 cm
AMELIA CARROLL, Alpineroad 1, Oil on canvas, 104 x 156 cm
BETTY KUNTIWA PUMANI, Antara, Acrylic on linen, 152 x 162 cm
ALEC BAKER, Ngura (My Country), Acrylic on Linen, 152 x 122 cm
CHARLOTTE PHILLIPUS NAPURULLA, Kalipinypa, Acrylic on canvas, 91 x 152 cm
CRAIG HANDLEY, The Trappings, Late 2017, Oil on linen, 122 x 112 cm
DAISY JAPULIJA, Billabong Country at Floodwater Time, Acrylic on Canvas, 122 x 135 cm
DAVID BEAUMONT, William Buckley Joins the Circus. The Houses Whisper, Spray enamel and charcoal on board, 123 x 92 cm
DAVID KEELING, Where the Light Falls, Cornelian Bay, Oil on linen, 122 x 138 cm
DEBBIE WALKER TREMLETT, A Darkening Sky Over Suburbia, Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm and 17 x 17 cm
EVA NARGOODAH, Kulawa, Acrylic paint on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
GLORIA, Untitled, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 152 x 152 cm
IDRIS MURPHY, Black Emu Evening and Hill Side, Mutawintji, Acrylic and collage on board, 65 x 65 cm
JACOBUS CAPONE, Wounds 1 & 2, Glacial Lake Water and White Gouache on Japanese Washi paper, 125 x 62 cm
JENNIFER RIDDLE, Verdant Garden, Acrylic on canvas, 156 x 141 cm
JOSIE BIRCHALL, Treasure Island, Oil paint and gold leaf on linen, 138 x 113 cm
KATE SHAW, The Grandmother – 1908 The Gorge, Acrylic and resin on board, 120 x 120 cm
KATJARRA BUTLER, Ngamurru, Acrylic on canvas, 147 x 122 cm
LEISL MOTT, Wait a Moment, Oil on board, 103 x 103 cm
MARIEKE DENCH, The Meeting after Glover (The River Derwent and Hobart Town and Ullswater, Early Morning), Synthetic polymer on linen, 120 x 100 cm
MILAN MILOJEVIC, Terra Incognita, Digital/woodblock/etching, 170 x 56 cm
MIN-WOO BANG, Feeling in Highland, Oil on linen, 152 x 122 cm
NATASHA BIENIEK, Biopod #2, Oil on silver mirror dibond, 26 x 33 cm
NEIL HADDON, The Visit, Oil and enamel paint on aluminium panel, 150 x 170 cm
NOLA CAMPBELL, All of Patjarr, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 102 cm
NYARAPAYI GILES, Warmurrungu, Acrylic on canvas, 147 x 147 cm
RAYMOND ARNOLD, Toward Light: Aboriginal Landscape – Big Punchbowl, Acrylic on linen diptych, 170 x 118 cm
ROBERT GEAR, Outpost 2, Oil on Linen, 130 x 110 cm
SAM FIELD, Always Was, Always Will Be (The Big Prawn In Ballina), Oil on panel, 82 x 102 cm
SARAH PIRRIE, Macrotidal Quadrat 01, Watercolour, dyes on Arches paper, 116 x 116 cm
TJUKUPATI JAMES, Kunga Kutjara, Acrylic on canvas, 121 x 147 cm
