Winners of the 2023 Minnawarra Art Awards, sharing a $25,000 prize pool, were announced at the opening event for the launch of the Armadale Arts Festival last week.
The Minnawarra Arts Awards and exhibition, held in the iconic Armadale District Hall is the centrepiece of the Armadale Arts Festival and offers an exciting public program including curator and artist floor talks and Positive Ageing High Teas, ensuring it’s not just art lovers that are able to revel in this creative visual feast!
Judges included Ashley Yihsin Chang, Artistic Program Manager from the Mundaring Arts Centre and Soula Vouyoucalos-Veyradier a respected arts manager and curator at the City of Melville. The exhibition is free to visit until Sunday 21 May every day from 11am to 4pm.
City of Armadale Mayor Ruth Butterfield acknowledged and thanked all exhibiting artists for their diverse art works across a wide variety of subjects, materials and mediums.
“The Minnawarra Art Awards is the City’s premier art exhibition, providing an opportunity for our community to see artworks by some of the most accomplished artists from around the State. It also provides a platform for artists to showcase their talents and sell their work,” said Mayor Butterfield.
This year the public was invited to attend the exhibition’s opening night to see first-hand the beautifully curated exhibition and meet the artists and exhibition curator Ron Nyisztor.
The Minnawarra Art Awards are proudly sponsored by Stockland.
ENDS…
List of winners as below.
| AWARD | ARTWORK NAME | ARTIST |
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Gerry Gauntlett Award Comment: A theatrical and masterful piece. It makes you think about our inability to respond to devastation. It draws you in, yet makes you stop at the same time. Making you wonder what we may shroud or reveal in environmental disasters. |
The Magus | Robert Gear |
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Highly Commended Award An individual way of using colour palette and perspective to describe landscape in a structural and an unsuspected way. Altering the picture plane by suggesting flatness and depth of field using and unusual technique to describe an actual place remembered. |
What is Around the Corner? | Genevieve Hartney |
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Local Artist Award Comment: This artwork impressed with its use of paper and pencil to convey an enchanted vision. In this picture the natural environment is shown as a revelation of interconnectedness, living things, tiny insects, fish and birds draw the view close. |
Life is a Sweet River | Leesa Padget |
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City of Armadale Award Comment: A snapshot feel of a mundane scene. Painted intently commenting on the suburban sprawl. Painting in a way to deliver an unsettling vision. |
Providence | Wade Taylor |
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Aboriginal Artist Award Comment: What united the judges on this piece was its expressive quality. Conveying an intensity of emotion. |
Facing the Beast | Sydney Phillips |
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