Sonia Payes has won First Prize in the Perth Centre for Photography’s annual CLIP Awards for her Ice Scape Series #13. The CLIP Award is an internationally recognised photographic prize for new perspectives in natural and urban landscape photography. The selection criteria focuses on images that are original, stimulating, and that challenge traditional notions of landscape photography. This year, the panel of judges consisted of Leigh Robb, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts curator; Graham Miller, photographer and co-founder of FotoFreo; and John Barrett-Lennard, curator, critic and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia.
During her recent residency in Beijing, Payes was immersed in a world of construction and cornfields where farmland was rapidly replaced by quarries and cement. The artist witnessed significant changes to the landscape and its challenges to the environment and human interrelationships. The resulting works are currently on display at Fehily Contemporary, in the solo exhibition Interzone, in which Payes comments on the contemporary and unnatural symbiotic interrelationship between man and his new environment.
Payes’ work can be viewed at Fehily Contemporary in Interzone, or at the Perth Centre for Photography in their CLIP Award finalists’ exhibition.
Perth Centre for Photography CLIP Award
Perth Centre for Photography
To June 9
Sonia Payes ‘Interzone’
Fehily Contemporary
To 25 May
Image: Ice Scape Series #13, 2011, C-type print, flex paper, dibond backing, face mounted to acrylic, 120 x 120cm
