Artist Carbiene McDonald Tjangala has won the 2019 Hadley’s Art Prize, an annual $100,000 acquisitive prize for Australian landscape.
The title of the winning work – Four Dreamings – suggests it narrates four dreaming stories, stories that are associated with a series of waterholes running between Docker River and Kata Tjuta in the Northern Territory – Petermann Ranges, Docker River, Kalaya Murrpu (Blood’s Range) and Mulyayti near Kata Tjuta.
Carbiene McDonald Tjangala, the 2019 Hadley’s Art Prize winner with his winning artwork Four Dreamings. Photograph supplied by Papanya Tjupi Arts Centre. Courtesy the artist and Hadley’s Art Prize, Tasmania
Tjangala retells stories that have been passed down from his father. As a young man, Tjangala returned to these four important locations and retraced the footsteps of his father, an experience has left the artist with vivid memories that remain with him today.
Curator at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), Jane Clark, has marked Tjangala’s entry as ‘an incredibly exciting work.’
‘It stood out as particularly exciting and original. And a combination of something very real – the shimmer and the desert – something that has universal quality,’ she said.
Tony Smibert, Tao Sublime 5. Highly Commended Award 2019. Courtesy the artist and Hadley’s Art Prize, Tasmania
Four Highly Commended Awards of $2,250 each were also presented to: Betty Pula Morton for her work titled My Country and Bush Medicine, Tony Smibert for Tao Sublime 5, Philip Wolfhagen for Approaching the Cusp and Faridah Cameron for Sky Song, and The Packing Room Prize of a $1,000 gift voucher for Wagner Framemakers has been awarded to Nigel Hewitt for his work Understory.
See the finalists and the winners of the 2019 Hadley’s Art Prize in the exhibition at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Tasmania on show until 18 August 2019. Entry is free and is open daily from 11am to 5pm and later on Fridays.
