2021 Judges
Left to right: Peter Mckay, Nici Cumpston OAM, Michaye Boulter
Judges’ comments
This arresting image subverts conventions of landscape. Through the constellation of over 2000 time-lapse images, this work draws us in to contemplate a visual record of Brady’s Lake over 28 hours and 25 minutes. The creation of the image began on the first day of 2021 when Tasmanian nights are short. Recognisable elements dissolve and give way to the ephemeral, everlasting aspects of place – weather, season and time become the subject matter. There is a philosophical investment in making this image – rather than pursuing a singular ideal representation, it’s more about making change present. Drawing on Romantic tropes, Stephenson gives voice to nature. The wattle tree stands sentinel over the lake, a witness to the gestural movement of weather patterns across multiple frequencies.
2021 Winner
David Stephenson
Time Slice: Bradys Lake – Every Minute from 12:26pm 1/1/2021 to 4:51pm 2/1/2021
Pigment ink print from digital composite of 2064 individual time-lapse images
160 x 115cm
2021 Residency Prize Winner
Peta Kruger
Offset
Judges’ Comments
A bright, joyful, jewel-like work that reflects the meticulous process of making as much as the outcome. The materials used take us to the city streets and reminds us that the plastics we use will outlive us. She raises awareness of the products we consume and the effects this has on our environment and the part we play in repurposing. This work is a beautiful transformation of waste into a hopeful reordering. For her residency, Kruger will invite the people to Hobart to join her on a soft plastic collecting mission.
Residency Prize Presented by The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel, The Salamanca Arts Centre and Artery
Honourable Mentions
ASMA D. MATHER, From What the River Knows (Contemplating the Darling Baarka in Eternal Time)
BETTY MUFFLER, Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country)
MARY TONKIN, King Wave, Kalorama
RAYMOND ARNOLD, From Behind the Screen of Branches - Prospect and Refuge
MARTIN REK, Reverie
2021 Mercury People’s Choice Award
MARTIN REK
Reverie
Carbon pencil and watercolour
76 x 92 cm
2022 Finalists
MARTIN REK, Reverie, Carbon pencil and watercolour, 76 x 92 cm
ALEC BAKER, Ngura (Country), Acrylic on linen, 152 x 76 cm
AMANDA JOHNSON, Colonial Heat: After Glover, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 152 x 92 cm
ASMA D. MATHER, From What the River Knows (Contemplating the Darling Baarka in Eternal Time), Copper plate etching, 95 x 65 cm
BETTY KUNTIWA PUMANI, Antara, Synthetic polymer on linen, 152 x 152 cm
BETTY MUFFLER, Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country), Acrylic on linen, 152 x 122 cm
BRIGITA OZOLINS, Beyond Our Dreams, Digital print on cotton rag, 104 x 74
CHEE YONG, Landscape Abstraction, Oil on wood, 29 x 23.5
DAVID STEPHENSON, Time Slice: Bradys Lake - Every Minute from 12:26pm 1/1/2021 to 4:51pm 2/1/2021, Pigment ink print from digital composite of 2064 individual time-lapse images, 160 x 115
DHAMBIT #2 WANAMBI, Yalanba, Earth pigments on stringybark, 46 x 71 cm
IDRIS MURPHY, The Lights in the Tree, Acrylic on aluminium, 116 x 116 cm
JASON CORDERO, Their Expectations Remained, Oil on linen, 152 x 102 cm
JULIE FRAGAR, Lady Barron Falls Over (After J.W. Beattie and The Waterfall), Oil on board, 92 x 72 cm
MARY TONKIN, King Wave, Kalorama, Oil on linen, 139 x 69 cm
MICHELLE HISCOCK, And Then Came the Flood, Oil on board, 75 x 65 cm
NAOMI HOBSON, Embedded, Acrylic on linen, 150 x 140
NEIL HADDON, There are Mountains We Will Never Climb, Oil, acrylic and screen print on aluminium panel, 140 x 130 cm
NEIL TAYLOR, Morning in the Silver River, Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120 cm
NICHOLAS BLOWERS, Tailings Pond at First Light, Oil on canvas, 160 x 142 cm
NICOLE O’LOUGHLIN, Collapsed Landscape in the Florentine Valley, Hand embroidered cotton thread, 56 x 80 cm
NIGEL HEWITT, Growling Swallet, Ash and polymer on timber ply panels, 156 x 132 cm
NOŊGIRRŊA MARAWILI, Baratjala, Earth pigments and recycled ink toner on composite board, 121 x 121 cm
PHILIP WOLFHAGEN, Concept for a Secular Altarpiece, Oil and beeswax on linen, 136 x 62 cm
RAYMOND ARNOLD, From Behind the Screen of Branches - Prospect and Refuge, Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 104 cm
ROBERT FIELDING, Ngura Miilmiilmananyi (This is Sacred), UV photograph with aerosol paint on true rag etching paper, 126 x 86 cm
SALLY MULDA, Looking for Wild Onion After School, Acrylic on linen, 76 x 46 cm
SONIA KURARRA, Martuwarra (River), Acrylic on 14oz canvas, 129 x 120 cm
TOM O’HERN, Maydena, Acrylic on paper, 76 x 87 cm
YARITJI TINGILA YOUNG, Seven Sisters Tjukurpa, Acrylic on Belgian linen, 160 x 160 cm
YVONNE BOAG, Bargo River, Acrylic on canvas, 152.5 x 128 cm
ZOE GREY, Loom, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 159 x 115 cm
