The Ramsay Art Prize is a biennial, acquisitive prize for contemporary Australian artists under forty working in any medium, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, installation, and the moving image. This year’s finalist exhibition showcases the work of twenty-seven artists, including Ida Sophia, whose winning single shot, single-channel video work, Witness, 2022, filmed at The Pool of Siloam in Wirmalngrang/Beachport in regional South Australia, depicts the artist in performance, undergoing a repetitive and intense series of submergences that take a single baptism to the level of relentless obsession.
Ida Sophia, Witness, 2022, Adelaide and Beachport, South Australia, single-channel HD 4k video. Photograph: Thomas McCammon. Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of South Australia
Until 27 August 2023
Adelaide
