New South Wales artist Fiona Lowry has won the prestigious 2013 Fleurieu Art Prize the world’s richest landscape painting prize – with her work alone with you.
Nigel Hurst, Director of London’s Saatchi Gallery, led this year’s judging panel. “It’s been an honour to help judge the Fleurieu Art Prize 2013,” Hurst says.
“The judges were impressed not only by the quantity of work, 1226 entries, but also the range, diversity and in many cases the quality of it.
“However Fiona Lowry’s outstanding painting, which seems to fill a blurred psychological gap 
between what we see, feel, remember or dream, and her strong track record of making these arresting and sometimes disturbing landscapes, makes her a very worthy winner.”
Lowry has exhibited with the Archibald (highly commended), Wynn and Sulman Prize finalist exhibitions. She has previously won the University of Queensland National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize (2009) and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2008).
Lowry is represented by Adelaide’s Hugo Michell Gallery. “We couldn’t be happier for Fiona – alone with you has an unnerving haunting quality to it, alongside its obvious beauty,” Michell says.
The winning piece and all shortlisted works were selected by Hurst and fellow judges artist Michael Zavros and the Samstag Museum’s Erica Green. They will be exhibited at cellar doors and galleries in McLaren Vale, Strathalbyn and Goolwa until November 25.
Fiona Lowry, alone with you, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 152 x 182 cm
