Ian Hay wins the Rick Amor Drawing Award 2024

Ian Hay's . . . and somewhere else tomorrow, 2023, has won the Rick Amor Drawing Award 2024. The ink on paper work will become part of the McClelland Collection. This year's judge, Australian artist Nick Mourtzakis, said the winning work "is a drawing that compresses and measures its forms in quanta of square millimetres with a beautiful precision. The work is fraught with speculative and possible resolutions and seems to develop in an entirely improvised way toward an inevitable conclusion; it’s a fascinating work. “While representing diverse and varied approaches, the singular qualities that mark the drawings in the whole exhibition,…