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Melbourne-based artist Lou Hubbard has won the prestigious $20,000 Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) for her work Dead Still Standing (2014), an installation comprising a deflated, disembowelled latex rubber horse, collapsed over a Coalbrookdale patio chair, table and bench seat situated over a skate board and plastic dog.
The official announcement took place at the formal opening at the Art Gallery of Ballarat on Friday 10 April by judges, Hannah Mathews, Associate Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne and Max Delany, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne who describe Hubbard’s work as “occupying a space between the traditions of equine, assemblage and unmonumental sculpture, Lou Hubbard’s, Dead Still Standing confounds and compels viewers in its uncanny play of materials and movement. In this elaborate yet concise work Hubbard has created a form of surprising and unsettling effect that reflects our experience of a world in transition.”
Shelley Hinton, Curator of the Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia congratulated Hubbard at the opening event: “Alongside the work of inaugural GNAP13 winner, Ash Keating and his work West Park Proposition, Hubbard’s work is a valuable acquisition for the University’s Permanent Collection. Dead Still Standing reflects the depth and breadth of contemporary life in Australia, with multi-layered meanings and conceptual perspectives. The work challenges us ethically and culturally, in a way that pleads for analysis, as we do in our complex daily lives. It is also a work that has strong historical and contemporary references that deserves time and contemplation”, Shelley said.
‘GNAP15’ includes artists Kate Mitchell and Mark Shorter from New South Wales; Conrad Tipungwuti from the Northern Territory; Ross Manning and Jemima Wyman from Queensland; Julie Gough from Tasmania; Chris Bond, Lou Hubbard, Susan Jacobs, Jess Johnson, Dylan Martorell and Dominic Redfern from Victoria; Teelah George and Pilar Mata Dupont from Western Australia; and Chris Barry, who lives and works between Victoria and the Northern Territory.
The overall impact of the exhibition is particularly impressive, reflective of the different ways in which Australian art can be articulated whether that is by moving imagery or a combination of installation and video or light or sound.
Federation University Australia’s Post Office Gallery, and
Art Gallery of Ballarat
11 April to 31 May 2015
Victoria
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015 winner:
Lou Hubbard, Dead Still Standing, 2014, latex, polystyrene, Coalbrookdale patio chair, table and bench seat, skate board and plastic dog
Collection: Federation University Australia
