The Flanagan Art Prize has been reprised in its original format as a major exhibition after pivoting to a residency in 2019. Running since 2008, this highly regarded national competition and exhibition held at St Patrick’s College in Ballarat, Victoria, celebrates emerging and established artists across many contemporary artforms. This year sees the return of the exhibition of shortlisted works and an acquisitive prize, alongside increased prize values and categories, while the inaugural Young Flanagan Prize is open nationally to secondary school-aged students.
Past winning entries vary in practice and medium, from Paul Snell’s mesmerising digital abstraction Drift, a Lamda print, to Pezaloom’s unsettling yet compelling Self Portrait (Dopakinesia Parkinson’s) photograph, Yuso Lee’s intricate sculptural piece Urban Dusk, and Anne-Marie Kuter’s impossibly delicate tissue paper construction Under the Rose.
Pezaloom, Self Portrait (Dopakinesia Parkinson’s), 2014, photograph, 100 × 79cm. Courtesy the artist
Entries close Friday 7 February 2025.
