Tamara Dean wins the 2020 Goulburn Art Award

The 2020 Goulburn Art Award and Young Artist Award brings together works from 52 artists – at all stages of their careers, working across any medium – who live and work within a 120km radius of Goulburn in New South Wales’s Southern Tablelands. This year’s edition has been judged by Karen Quinlan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery Australia.

Tamara Dean, Endangered 16, 2019, archival pigment print on cotton rag paper, 70 x 104cm

‘Each finalist submitted an exemplary example of their practice at this moment in time. The conceptual realm of the exhibition has settled into a broad and sensitive reflection of our region, as well as a brave commentary on the politics of today. The recent bushfires, our natural environment and its resilience, a sense of identity linked to place and the human condition are woven into works of many media with deftness and talent,’ said Gina Mobayed, Director of Goulburn Regional Art Gallery.

Announced on Friday 17 April via Instagram, the 2020 winners are;

Goulburn Art Award Winner: Tamara Dean, Endangered 16 (2019) highlights the artist’s ‘love for the environment and my deep concern for our planet.’

Endangered is a reframing of the notion of ourselves as human beings – mammals in a sensitive ecosystem,’ says Dean about her winning work. ‘By likening the human figure to a school of fish or a pod of seals, I make the point that we are as vulnerable to the same forces of climate change as every other living creature… To see ourselves as different and separate to the ecology and ecosystem of our planet is leaving humanity unprepared for the world we are currently destroying.’

Robbie Howard, May’s Lane, Collector, 2019, screen print on paper, 122 x 77.5cm

Highly Commended: Robbie Howard, May’s Lane, Collector (2019) which shows the artist’s fascination with the shadows and dappled light associated with this place. ‘The beautiful white trunked manifera eucalypt trees frame the narrow dirt road,’ recalls Howard. ‘David Campbell’s poem “Windy Gap” expresses the atmosphere in the image and is the inspiration for this print.’

Young Artist Award: Ashleigh Deaton, Unfinished thought (2020), a single line contour drawing ‘referencing the generational prejudices against the nature of youth, and the resilience and determination of character within youth,’ says the artist, ‘…and propose absolving the nature of the relationships between them.’

Ashleigh Deaton, Unfinished thought, 2020, marker on canvas, 76 x 91cm

View the online catalogue with full details on every work in the 2020 Goulburn Art Award here. To vote for the People’s Choice Award, please email your chosen artist name and artwork title to artgallery@goulburn.nsw.gov.au

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