2019 judges
left to right: Susan McCulloch OAM, Jane Clark, Raymond Arnold
photo: Jessica King
2019 Winner
Carbiene McDonald Tjangala
Four Dreamings
acrylic on linen
152 x 122cm
Judges’ Comments
The innovation in painting is impressive. The winning work exemplifies confidence, power and subtle poetry through the quality of shimmer. This shimmer harks back to paintings of his forebears, painted in a completely new and unique way. The intensity of light is like a mirage; it’s blinding and mesmerising. While being deep-rooted in a particular place, this artwork would stand up in the company of any art. The specialness of the texture of the surface is incredibly powerful and beyond translation into any digital reproduction. You really have to see this work in person.
Honourable Mentions
PHILIP WOLFHAGEN, Approaching the Cusp
TONY SMIBERT, Tao Sublime 5
FARIDAH CAMERON, Sky Song
BETTY PULA MORTON, My Country and Bush Medicine
2019 People’s Choice Award presented by University of Tasmania and the Mercury newspaper
NIGEL HEWITT
Understory
Wood ash and polymer on 9 ply panels 179 x 140 cm
2019 Finalists
AMANDA JOHNSON, Colonial Heat, Oil on canvas, 155 x 125 cm
ANDREW BROWNE, A Landscape with Hoarding (the five points), Oil on linen, 132 x 170 cm
BEN WARD, Yardanggarlm (Dingo Springs), Natural pigment on canvas, 180 x 120 cm
ALEXANDER BEECH, Vulnerability VIII, Fingal Valley, Oil and acrylic polymer on canvas, 123 x 153 cm
BETTY PULA MORTON, My Country and Bush Medicine, Acrylic on linen, 152 x 122 cm
CARBIENE MCDONALD TJANGALA, Four Dreamings, Acrylic on linen, 152 x 122 cm
DANIE MELLOR, Landspace (Shaping of Memory) Wax pastel, wash with oil pigment, acrylic, watercolour, pencil, ink, balsa wood, twine, archival PVA and gilding on paper; two elements on paper mounted on aluminium, 178 x 178 cm
DENISE BRADY, Kamiku Tjukurpa Iritinguru, Acrylic on canvas, 121 x 147 cm
EMMA THEYERS, Untitled (Manifestation 1), Charcoal on paper, 57 x 77 cm
FARIDAH CAMERON, Sky Song, Acrylic on Belgian linen, 175 x 175 cm
FIONA LOWRY, It is Night with Glaring Sunshine, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 167 cm
JOE BLUNDELL, Corhanwarrabul, that one spot, Oil on linen, 88 x 142 cm
JOHN ANDERSON, On the Southern Coast, Oil on Belgian linen, 180 x 150 cm
KYLIE ELKINGTON, Native, Oil on linen, 130 x 160 cm
LOUISE MALARVIE, Nyabal Nyabal, Natural pigment on canvas, 150 x 180 cm
MARY TONKIN, Plunge in, Kalorama 2019, Oil on linen, 180 x 180 cm
MEGAN WALCH, Land of Fire and Flood, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 180 x 100 cm
MELISSA SMITH, Passing Thoughts - Lake Sorell, Intaglio collagraph print, 172 x 77 cm
NEIL HADDON, Our Rocky Shore, Enamel, oil, acrylic, digital print, vinyl and lacquer on aluminium panel, 122 x 130 cm
NGAMARU BIDU, Wantili, Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 152 cm
NICOLA DICKSON, Westall’s Entrance of Port Lincoln 1802, Oil on linen, 92 x 77 cm
NIGEL HEWITT, Understory, Wood ash and polymer on 9 ply panels, 179 x 140 cm
ROBYN MAYO, Mourning for Tasmania’s Central Plateau, Ink drawing with watercolour, 180 x 133 cm
SUSANNA CASTLEDEN, Assembling Parts for a Bigger Picture (part A), Gesso, watercolour, silkscreen on rag paper, 138 x 96 cm
SYLVIA KEN, Seven Sisters, Acrylic on linen, 180 x 153 cm
THORNTON WALKER, Composition with the Sea and Rolling Hills, Oil on canvas, 122 x 152 cm
TIM BURNS, Shoreline, Oil on canvas, 155 x 170 cm
TIMOTHY COAD, Beneath the Sticks, Composite drawing, 150 x 85 cm
TIMOTHY COOK, Kulama, Natural ochres on linen, 150 x 120 cm
TONY SMIBERT, Tao Sublime 5, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 121 cm
VALERIE SPARKS, Crossing, Pigment inkjet print on paper, 133 x 83 cm
WAWIRIYA BURTON, Ngayuku Ngura (My Country), Acrylic on linen, 122 x 180 cm
PHILIP WOLFHAGEN, Approaching the Cusp, Oil and beeswax on linen, 170 x 46 cm
