RHODES Sarah, Colleen, 2022, Pigment print on cotton rag, 100 x 130 cm MORRISON Anne, when starfields and oceans collide, 2020, Acrylic on linen, 122 x 135 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Despard Gallery – Hobart. MAHER Sara, Open Listening (Lunawanna-alonnah/Bruny Island), 2021, Ink on paper, 115 x 120 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Bett Gallery – Hobart. 22 City of Devonport Tasmanian Art Award: Image Details: The winning work of tidal. Of these, 49 works were preselected to be included in the finalists’ exhibition by the judging panel.įloor talk: 11am, Saturday, 10 December 2022 by Ashley Bird.Įxhibition dates: Saturday, 10 December 2022 until 28 January 2023. The award, now in its 10 th instalment after the inaugural competition in 2004, attracted 141 entries by Tasmanian Artists. The People’s Choice Award will be announced at the close of the exhibition and the artist will receive $1,000, courtesy of One Agency Collins Real Estate. The $20,000 major acquisitive award is sponsored by the Devonport City Council and the Devonport Regional Gallery Friends Committee. The judges also awarded Highly Commended to Forth based artist Anne Morrison for her painting when starfields and oceans collide and Launceston artist Sarah Rhodes for a pigment print titled Colleen. The artist is successful in viscerally capturing a sense of the ever-changing, tidal sea – responding strongly to the set theme. The work is also relevant and sensitive to current Tasmanian experience, speaking to non-indigenous people’s re-calibration of personal relationship to this place. The work as well as the surface of something calm and wild in equal measure. What makes it a worthy winner, however, of tidal.22 is its power. It’s not ‘blue’ for a start and is tucked away in a far corner to avoid the reflection of light. Speaking on Behalf of the judges’ Ashley Bird said: “Sara Maher’s work is at odds with the majority of the artworks currently installed at the Devonport Regional Gallery. Mr Dobson said the prize was awarded by a panel of three judges: Raymond Arnold, Artist, Ashley Bird, Senior Curator Visual Art and Design, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and Michelle Boyde, Artistic Director, Design Tasmania. 22: City of Devonport Tasmanian Art Award, at tonight’s opening exhibition at the Devonport Regional Gallery.ĭevonport City Council’s Convention and Arts Centre Manager Geoff Dobson congratulated Maher for claiming one of Tasmania’s most prestigious prizes for her artwork Open Listening (Lunawanna-alonnah/Bruny Island). Hobart artist Sara Maher has been awarded the $20,000 tidal. Hobart artist named major winner of tidal.22 art prize

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