Over 750 entries were submitted, vying for this year’s $65,000 coveted ‘Fleurieu Art Prize’, the world’s richest landscape prize.
For the first time in 18 years, the prize will be exhibited at a city-based gallery to broaden its audience. Samstag Museum of Art is the first host to showcase the 58 finalists chosen, including this year’s winner, Australian artist Tony Albert. The winning work, The Hand You’re Dealt (2015), references Western popular and Australian Aboriginal culture through a careful arrangement of vintage playing cards. In interrogating his immense collection of “Aboriginalia”, Albert asks us to engage with our landscape: tangible, social and political.
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
Until 29 July, 2016
South Australia
Tony Albert, The Hand You’re Dealt (detail), 2015, vintage Aboriginal playing cards, dimensions variable
Photograph: Sam Noonan
Courtesy the artist, sullivan+strumpf, Sydney and Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide
