Opening Night Gallery
Thank you to everyone who came and joined in our opening celebrations on Friday, 2nd August.
Special thanks to Jansz Tasmania and James Boag's Premium.
2024 Judges
Left to right: Dr Neil Haddon, Jane Devery, Tina Baum
Photography: Jessica King
2024 Winner
Zoe Grey
The Shape of Rock
Acrylic and oil on canvas
153 cm x 122 cm
Judges' Comments
A very confident work which draws you in with its rich colours and varied mark-making. There is much to discover as you move around the work and different elements reveal themselves. It's oceanic and energetic. The composition is well resolved, and the work offers an immersion in the landscape which parallels the artist's experience of her hometown, Marrawah, a small coastal town in the northwest coast of lutruwita/Tasmania.
2024 Residency Prize Winner
Laura Patterson
Original Shadows, Kooparoona Niara (Mountains of the Spirits) / Mole Creek Tasmania
Oil on board
121 cm x 90 cm
Judges' Comments
A beautiful painting which feels both familiar and haunting. With evocative filtered light, there is a sense of moisture and dampness that make you really feel like you’re in the place. We were impressed with how the artist articulated her proposal for this residency and what it would mean for her creative practice with the opportunity for plein-air studies in Tasmanian national parks and the chance to experiment with scale.
2024 Mercury People's Choice Award Winner
Stephanie Tabram
Afternoon below Table Mountain
Acrylic on linen
137 cm x 152 cm
Honourable Mentions
Illuwanti Ken
Walawuru ngunytju kukaku ananyi (Mother eagles going hunting)
Acrylic and ink on linen
160 x 160 cm
Zaachariaha Fielding
Inma
Acrylic on linen
160 cm x 160 cm
Naomi Hobson
Wuukanta: Life on the River
Synthetic polymer on linen
160 x 160 cm
Rosie Hastie
Scott’s Peak
Photograph of constructed sculpture
67 cm x 100 cm
2024 Finalists
ANDREW MEZEI The Devil’s Kitchen, Oil on linen, 76.5 cm x 56.5 cm
BELINDA YEE, Graphite Profile (Harbour 2), Graphite on watercolour paper, 70 cm x 50 cm
CHARLES JANGALA INKMALA, Papunya, Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 46 cm x 91 cm
CONRAD TIPUNGWUTI, Warnarringa (sun), Locally sourced ochres on stringybark, 94 cm x 52 cm
DAVID KEELING, Future proofing-memory bank, Oil on linen, 152 cm x 137 cm
AMANDA JOHNSON, Colonial Heat Panninher Country, Longford, Polymer acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 cm x 110 cm
FRANK YOUNG, Urrtjanpa, Acrylic on linen, 153 cm x 153 cm
ELIZABETH KUNOTH KNGWARRAY, Yam Seeds, Synthetic polymer on linen, 120 cm x 120 cm
FIONA FRANCOIS, The Last Stand, Charcoal and pencil, 130 cm x 160 cm
HARRISON BOWE, By Water Over Time, Oil, enamel and beeswax on canvas, 153 cm x 91 cm
HELEN MUELLER, Walking on Bruny 4, Woodcut prints on layered Kozo paper, 48 cm x 94 cm WINNER GEEKS AWARD PRESENTED BY DR KARL AND ADAM SPENCER
HUBERT PAREROULTJA, West West MacDonnell Ranges, Hugh River, Watercolour on Paper, 91 cm x 142 cm
ILLUWANTI KEN, Walawuru ngunytju kukaku ananyi (Mother eagles going hunting), Acrylic and ink on linen, 160 x 160 cm HONOURABLE MENTION
JANE BURTON, Shadowlands, Painted and varnished gelatin silver darkroom print (archival 300 GSM paper, watercolour, and gouache), 100 cm x 95 cm
JOE WHYTE, Leaving, Oil on linen, 64 cm x 110 cm, $7,400
JULIA SIRIANNI, Turtle Creek, Oil on linen, 152 cm x 122 cm $8,800
KATHERINE BOLAND, St Clair and the Mountain, Pigment print from digital composite on recycled aluminium (1/1), 120 cm x 76 cm $3,600
KIEREN KARRITPUL, 6 Pig-nosed Turtles, Work on paper collagraph x 6 pieces painted, 117 cm x 159 cm
LAURA PATTERSON, Original Shadows, Kooparoona Niara (Mountains of the Spirits) / Mole Creek Tasmania, Oil on board, 121 cm x 90 cm
LEON RUSSELL BLACK, Bush Holiday Dreaming, Natural ochre on canvas, 120 cm x 80 cm
RHODA TJITAYI, Piltati, Acrylic on canvas, 160 cm x 160 cm
ROBERT FIELDING, Nganampa Manta, Synthetic polymer on linen, 150 cm x 150 cm
ROSIE HASTIE, Scott’s Peak, Photograph of constructed sculpture, 67 cm x 100 cm HONOURABLE MENTION
STEPHANIE TABRAM, Afternoon below Table Mountain, Acrylic on linen, 137 cm x 152 cm WINNER MERCURY PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
TONY LLOYD, Cleft Island, Wilson's Promontory, Oil on linen, 71 cm x 152 cm
TROY RUFFELS, Stone tide, Weeping tree 2024, Digital print on composite aluminium panel, 110 cm x 120cm
ZAACHARIAHA FIELDING, Inma, Acrylic on linen, 160 cm x 160 cm HONOURABLE MENTION
ZOE GREY, The shape of rock, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 153 cm x 122cm WINNER
MARTIN REK, Adrift, Carbon pencil, watercolour on paper, 50 cm x 60 cm
MEG WALCH, The Shape of Space: Crab Burrow Morphology, Oil on archival wooden panel, 100 cm x 130 cm WINNER GEEKS AWARD PRESENTED BY DR KARL AND ADAM SPENCER
MILAN MILOJEVIC, Arcadia: Terra Incognita (The Great White Hunter being Great), Digital/woodblock/etching, 70 cm x 120 cm
NAOMI HOBSON, Wuukanta: Life on the River, Synthetic polymer on linen, 160 x 160 cm HONOURABLE MENTION
NICOLA HOOPER, Space Invaders and Morris willow, Paper cut watercolour, gouache and wire, 70 cm x 46 cm
PHILIP WOLFHAGEN, Signals II, Paper cut watercolour, gouache and wire, 70 cm x 46 cm
RAYMOND ARNOLD, A Wreckage of Ellipses – Acid Mine Drainage Tank, Acrylic on canvas diptych, 96 cm x 142 cm