Hazelhurst Arts Centre has announced Robert Ewing, from Pinjarra in Western Australia, as the winner of the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2019 for his work entitled Chaos and Consequence (2017).
‘The artwork presents a real and imagined landscape in the context of a theatrical stage setting,’ says Ewing. ‘Populated with organic and anthropomorphic shapes, combining and colliding with changing elements, the artwork seeks to engage the viewer in an intimate dialogue of association to a changing landscape.’
Robert Ewing, Chaos and Consequence, October 2017, coloured pencil on cotton paper, 140 x 250cm
Ewing’s work was selected from that of 86 finalists by this year’s judging panel; artists Idris Murphy and Joan Ross, and artist and Head Curator of Artbank, Oliver Watts. As a result, Ewing is awarded $15,000.
The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award is a significant national exhibition that aims to elevate the status of works on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium. This year the works demonstrate the materiality of paper, its versatility and the possibilities of paper as a medium. Paper can be cut, torn, folded, layered, scratched, scrunched, burned, animated, woven, found and re-purposed.
Additional wins include Belem Lett receiving the $5,000 Young & Early Career Artist Award for Mountains of Madness (2019); while the $5,000 Friends of Hazelhurst Local Artist Prize was awarded jointly to Kerry Toomey for Mundhuii (2019) and Paul Williams for Painting ongoing (2017-2019).
The installation crew also chose their favourite work: Chance Forms (2018), awarding Kate Vassallo a 4-week residency at Hazelhurst Arts Centre. The $1,000 People’s Choice Award, to be announced on Monday 8 November.
Finalists’ works can be viewed at Hazelhurst Arts Centre from 21 September to 17 November 2019.
