The ‘Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2015‘ attracted over 1500 entries by more than 750 local, national and international artists. With 93 finalists selected, the exhibition is a diverse range of paper media including pencil drawings, charcoal, ink, oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolour, three dimensional works, photography, printmaking, video and paper animation.
The judges, leading local artists George Gittoes, Alexander McKenzie and Ildiko Kovacs, declared Glen Clarke the winner of the $15,000 award at the recent opening of the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2015 exhibition. Glen’s winning entry, titled Peace Keeper, is a work made from folded shirts from paper $US and Iraqi Dinar and cotton thread. The artist says “Peace Keeper is just another irreverent whimsical attempt at discrediting or making fun of war and weapons, Give Peace a Chance, Make Love Not War. Just Spreading The Love.”
The ‘Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2015’ also featured ‘The Young and Emerging Artist’ prize of $5,000, which was won by Becc Ország with her work titled Rehearsal for all are equal and all may be crowned emperor, a work using graphite, carbon and charcoal pencil on layered watercolour paper. ‘The Packers Prize’ of an artist residency at Hazelhurst was won by Teo Treloar with Black Geometry, a pencil on paper work.
‘The Friends of Hazelhurst Local Artist’ prize of $5,000 was won by Louisa Chircop with her work titled Interior Monologue–Carousel of Slaughter, which explores ideas about one’s own uncertainty, spawning images that have a both a sense of self-reflective ambiguity and simultaneously embody a universal picture of morality, spirituality and physicality. The work serves as a reminder that life is a constantly moving force and parallels the act of creativity itself.
Nominations for the ‘People’s Choice Award’ of $1,000 will close on Friday 17 July. All nominations entered go into a draw to win a $100 gift voucher redeemable on goods and services from Hazelhurst.
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre
Until 26 July, 2015
Sydney
Glen Clarke, Peace Keeper, 2015, folded shirts from paper US$ and Iraqi Dinar and cotton thread
