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The renowned Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize is an annual exhibition and acquisitive award presenting recent work by Australian and New Zealand artists. It highlights exciting developments in contemporary art and provides a platform for an artist-selected exhibition that features established artists alongside early-career artists. Offering a total of $36,000 in prize money and spanning all mediums, participating artists have no limitations on their choice of media or subject matter.
Forty-three Australian and New Zealand artists, twenty-two established artists and twenty-one emerging artists, have been selected to create new work for the 2016 visual arts prize and exhibition at the National Art School Gallery in Sydney. This pairing of established and emerging artists is designed to encourage mentoring relationships between different generations of artists.
The 22 established artists selected this year include some of Australia’s most innovative names in
contemporary art. Guest curator, Sydney-based artist Mikala Dwyer commented: “Together, these artists exhibit the diversity in approach and technique, revealing the broad spectrum of work and ideas being produced in Australia at present.”
The established and emerging artist pairings for 2016 are: Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley and Lewis Fidock; John Bloomfield and Sean Wadey; Daniel Boyd and Hamishi Farah; Pat Brassington and Jacob Leary; Carla Cescon and Francesca Heinz; Maria Cruz and Nicola Smith; Julie Fragar and James Barth; Matthys Gerber and Suzi Faiz; Sarah Goffman and Rosie Deacon; Joan Grounds and Andrew Simmons; Shane Haseman and Mitchell Cumming; Ruark Lewis and Dhambit Muniggurr; Elizabeth Newman and Hanna Tai; Luke Parker and Elise Harmsen; Natalie Puantulura and Alison Puruntatameri; Elizabeth Pulie and Emma Finneran; Koji Ryui and Anna John; Ava Seymour and Juliet Carpenter; Mary Teague and Jensen Tjhung; David Thomas and Erika Scott; Simon Yates and Jack Lanagan Dunbar.
Selected artist Daniel Boyd, who this year was invited to participate in the 56th International Venice Biennale, ‘All the World’s Futures’, has nominated Somali-Australian multimedia artist Hamishi Farah. The work of both artists is loaded with multiple perspectives – of limitless cultural and historical implications.
Photo-media artist Pat Brassington, winner of the prestigious Bowness Photography Prize in 2013 and whose touring retrospective formed part of MONA’s Dark Mofo in 2014, will exhibit a work titled Pair Bonding that challenges the audience’s senses and undermines the ‘authority of photography’. Brassington has nominated talented emerging Tasmanian artist Jacob Leary whose work has a forensic and fresh perspective of the world in which he lives together with a strong sense of playfulness.
Julie Fragar, currently working on a major commission funded by the Australia Council for the Arts that explores migration; also to be presented in the 2016 Prize has nominated recently graduated James Barth. Both artists work primarily with painting and digital media and share an interest in human subjects.
Tiwi Island artist, Natalie Puantulura, finalist in the prestigious Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award has nominated fellow Tiwi Island artist, Alison Puruntatameri from Melville Island whose work was selected for Primavera 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art.
Sarah Goffman has nominated Rosie Deacon, with both artists creating socially engaged installations and assemblages. Goffman’s work involves her reuse of everyday consumable items while Deacon creates large-scale fictional geographies, inhabited solely by hand-made animal sculptures.
In 2016, the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize celebrates its 20th anniversary. The two winning artworks in the established and emerging categories will become part of Redlands School’s permanent art collection, providing a valuable resource for visual arts students and teachers. Prize winners will be awarded at an opening event at the Gallery presented on the evening of 23 March, 2016.
National Art School
14 March to 14 May, 2016
Sydney
2015 Winner Mikala Dwyer with Untitled, 2014
