The Substation Contemporary Art Prize 2014 judges Max Delany (Senior Curator Contemporary Art, NGV) and Mark Feary, (Curator, Artspace, Sydney) have awarded the this year’s prize to Melbourne-based artist Nathan Gray for his multi-screen video and sound installation work Species of Spaces.
The judges’ decision was unanimous:
“Nathan Gray’s Species of Spaces is an impressive immersive presentation that incorporates multiple elements. The work displays a sophisticated and refined sense of sound and image composition, and, drawing upon the artist’s ongoing engagement with sculpture and performance, produces a lively and poetic engagement between the work and the world, and between image, sound and performance.”
“Conceived originally for an industrial space on Cockatoo Island for the Biennale of Sydney, the work is equally well situated within the residual architecture of The Substation.”
With 40 finalists from across Australia and a diversity of mediums – from performance to video, sculpture and painting – this year’s exhibition features artists working across themes of formalism, social, political and environmental themes.
2014 Award winners as below:
Major Award ($10,000). Sponsored by Metro
Nathan Gray, Species of Spaces, 2014
The Westie ($1,000). Award for artist living and working in Melbourne’s west
Phuong Ngo, Residual: Selected Components of Article 14.1, 2014
The Substation Exhibition Award
Bridie Lunney, Any Second Now, 2014
The $1,000 Bendigo Bank People’s Choice Award will be decided by audience members and be announced at the closure of the exhibition.
The Substation
16 August to 12 October, 2014
Melbourne
Image: Nathan Gray, Species of Spaces, 2014
