Judging panel, Director of Gippsland Art Gallery, Anton Vardy; renowned Australian botanical artist, Celia Elizabeth Rosser; and contemporary action painter, Kerrie Warren; Your Art Collection winner, Kerry Spokes; and Bass Coast Shire Council Mayor, Neil Rankine, with the winning digital artwork, Unnatural Selection #2. KERRY Spokes’ work Unnatural Selection #2 has won Bass Coast Shire Council’s major art award.
Judges Anton Vardy, Celia Elizabeth Rosser and Kerrie Warren unanimously selected her digital work from 16 works by four artists who have won Your Art Collection awards during the year.
Mr Vardy applauded the four artists represented – Ms Spokes, Bill Binks, Robyn Riley and Ursula Theinert – and said Unnatural Selection #2 impressed with its originality of concept.
Judges Anton Vardy, Celia Elizabeth Rosser and Kerrie Warren unanimously selected her digital work from 16 works by four artists who have won Your Art Collection awards during the year.
Mr Vardy applauded the four artists represented – Ms Spokes, Bill Binks, Robyn Riley and Ursula Theinert – and said Unnatural Selection #2 impressed with its originality of concept.
“It left us musing what was happening in this forest of abandoned cars with inverted male figures imbedded in the trunks of the trees.
“Why is the stork, the proverbial bringer of new life, taking away a chair? Has it invested itself with grim reaper properties to remove an audience member?
“Kerry Spokes leaves us with lots of questions as we try to work it out, but it’s not a game. There is no solution. It’s just a dream, a hypnopompic state. That period between sleep and awake where nothing is reality, yet everything exists.”
The winning artist receives $5000 and other shortlisted artists receive $1000 each.
“Why is the stork, the proverbial bringer of new life, taking away a chair? Has it invested itself with grim reaper properties to remove an audience member?
“Kerry Spokes leaves us with lots of questions as we try to work it out, but it’s not a game. There is no solution. It’s just a dream, a hypnopompic state. That period between sleep and awake where nothing is reality, yet everything exists.”
The winning artist receives $5000 and other shortlisted artists receive $1000 each.