Yorta Yorta artists Jack Anselmi and Cynthia Hardie have won the 2016 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award with their installation, Midden.
In addition to winning the $20,000 prize, their work will be acquired by The Shepparton Art Museum (SAM).
The 2016 judges: Tom Mosby, CEO, Koorie Heritage Trust Inc; Kimberley Moulton, senior curator South Eastern Australian Collections, Melbourne Museum; and Dr Rebecca Coates, director, SAM, commented, “The winning work was selected for its ambition, extension of their practice, the way it extends the medium of ceramics and importantly for the cultural story it presents.”
The seven shortlisted artists and collectives each received a development fee to help them produce a substantial body of work for the award exhibition.
All of the finalist’s works are on show in the Indigenous Ceramic Art Award Exhibition.
Indigenous Ceramic Art Award Exhibition
The Shepparton Art Museum (SAM)
6 August – 25 September
A new show at Craft Victoria asks six creatives—artists, makers, designers—to respond to aluminium as a material. All the aluminium used is recycled, highlighting the space’s new Conscious Craft initiative.
The beachside charm of the Gold Coast is getting the Renaissance treatment with the region’s major gallery, Home of the Arts (HOTA), exhibiting not “old master” paintings per se, but a series of multifaceted, immersive projections of works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli and Caravaggio, among many others.
Trevor Yeung’s art draws on moments of quiet, dawning intimacy between people—interactions which are immensely felt yet so difficult to express. The Hong-Kong based artist is in this year’s Biennale of Sydney at White Bay Power Station and Artspace.
“I guess that is the thread, that I am very open to influences that come into my life, you know, and I respond to them,” says Suzanne Archer in The Long Run, Art Guide’s latest podcast series featuring interviews with artists who have 60-year practices.
Annika Harding’s latest work at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, focuses on the Atherton Tablelands, exploring the tension between natural beauty, relentless meteorological forces, and the built environment that supports local agricultural communities.
25-year-old Serwah Attafuah is known for her hyper-luminescent dreamscapes and cybernetic archetypes. In her Sydney studio she discusses the scavenger methods, ancestral rituals, and socio-ecological concerns that scaffold her practice—and why The Matrix helps her understand the world.
