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2011 BLACKHEATH ART PRIZE

Judges: Mathew Lynn and Robert Malherbe
     

 

 

 Judges Mathew Lynn and Robert Malherbe awarding the prizes

Winner of First Prize: Pamela Hourani

Pat Skenridge, President, at the prizegiving
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 First Prize: the mirror
Artist: Pamela Hourani
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Judges' comments: Wonderfully complex and human, not pretty or particularly flattering but truthful, humorous and slightly repellent, conveys the feeling of knowing someone for a very long time in all their glory. Wonderful variety of meaningful marks, awkwardness and a unique harmony. A unique energy that jumps off the wall and is all too human!

 


 

 Second Prize: reflection at everglades
Artist: Nicola Mason
Medium: Oil on canvas
Judges' comments: A quiet and intense picture, showing a well known place in a completely different light. A moody, awkward composition that resolves itself wonderfully with a quiet drama
 

 


 

 Highly Commended : looking over narrowneck
Artist: Jane Canfield
Medium: Oil on hemp
Judges' comments: Beautiful, visceral and expressive impression of the Narrowneck, conveys a living breathing energy of place and is a perfectly focused and weighted composition. Wonderful variety of marks and texture give this work an inner power and energy.
 

 

 

 

 

Highly Commended: royal hotel, hill end
Artist: Bruce Holmes
Medium: Oil
Judges' comments: Both unique figurative compositions that as much as anything else rejoice in their love of pure colour and composition.  The figures and forms have a wonderful economy, perfectly in tune with conveying the underlying poetry of the image.

I especially love The Outing, [Bruce's other entry] as for me there is a very appealing mystery, and an invitation inwards.


 

 

 

 

  

 

Highly Commended: koala
Artist: Les Love
Medium: Etching
Judges' comments: So delicate and subtle, this print is almost like a Chinese ink painting. A wonderful lightness, almost flying quality is conveyed in the figure that is so much more than just a Koala. One really feels a common sentient bond that goes beyond the distinctions of animal and human.


 

 


 

 

Highly Commended: Emptiness 1
Artist: Marcela Vilaplana
Medium: Inkjet print on archival art paper
Judges' comments: About emptiness but not really empty. A striking portrait of the very air and light pervading a space. The beautiful composition perfectly contains this air and light. It goes beyond a snapshot and conveys a particularly piercing and pervasive sensation of emptiness.
  

 

 


 

  

Commended: erosions 1
Artist: Natasha Daniloff
Medium: Ink
Judges' comments: Spidery, watery and expressive, manages to convey more than just an outward view of erosion.
 

 

 

Commended: tremain's flourmill
Artist: Barbara Holmes
Medium: Charcoal
Judges' comments: Successfully conveys the drab, dirty quality of something that ironically produces flour!

 

 

Commended: escarpment track ii
Artist: Leonie Lyall
Medium: Oil
Judges' comments: A wonderful example of harmony in light, form and colour that reaches beyond sentimentality. Subtle and soft.

 

 


 

 

 

 Commended: untitled
Artist: Janet Reinhardt
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Judges' comments: A very formal piece that conveys something of German Expressionism, showing a kind of traverse of an iconic figure moving through geometric and organic forms and space. Subtle and skilled. The silhouetted figure and abstracted space successfully convey a kind of alternate, felt reality.


 

 


 

  

Commended: rhododendron gardens i
Artist: Jeanne Rudd
Medium: Acrylic
Judges' comments: A wonderful balance of textures, rhythms and colours, all kept to their essential qualities. Manages to directly convey a very strong personal impression and interpretation of a place
 

 


 

  

Commended: rheinauer hafen
Artist: Mandy Schone-Salter
Medium: Diptych photography
Judges' comments: Though a kind of portrait, one feels one knows even less about the person. Strongly conveys the feeling of things and people being 'unknowable'. We both felt the rather awkward presentation added to the work!

 
People's Choice: wall's ledge
Artist: Birgitte Hansen
Medium: Acrylic + Oil on canvas

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