Finalists for the Bay of Fires Art Prize announced ahead of winter festival
The finalists for the $20,000 Bay of Fires Art Prize have been announced.
This year artists had to address the theme Tasmania.
Exhibition curator Ashley Bird said he loved that the prize provided a playing field for all artists.
"The real value of the Bay of Fires Art prize is that it brings together more than just one medium," he said. "It allows all Tasmanian artists a way of making and saying something about being Tasmanian and what it is like to be a part of this unique environment."
The judges for this year's event are QVMAG visual art and design curator Ashleigh Whatling, Contemporary Art Tasmania's Sean Kelly, and UTAS emeritus professor and honorary fellow Jonathan Holmes.
It was Whatling's first year judging the prize, and she said she had enjoyed being involved.
"The quality of entries was very high this year but what I found most interesting was the range of abilities; we had submissions from established artists all the way through to the self-taught," she said.
"This is something I really love about being involved with an art prize as you get the opportunity to see artwork from a range of backgrounds that you wouldn't normally get to see."
The gala prize presentation will take place on June 7 at the Tidal Waters Resort, St Helens.
The Bay of Fires Winter Arts Festival will take place from June 8 to July 10 across the East Coast.
For more information, visit the festival's website.
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Bay of Fires Art Prize finalists:
- A Cultural Appropriation of Cradle Mountain - Graeme Whittle
- After Dante's Inferno - Sarah Rhodes
- Aftermath - Nick Glade-Wright
- Asperous - Rachel Howell
- Autumn Glow - Wolfgang Glowacki
- Brief Wake - Robyn Harman
- Cape Bruny - West East West (Diptych) - Valerie Sparks
- Constructivist Colonial Landscape (Tasmania's jackass) - Fernando do Campo
- Drink Me, Eat Me. - Angela Casey
- During the Bushfires - William Rhodes
- Duty of Care, Maatsuyker Island - Diane Masters
- Escape Cradle Mt - Judith Anne Jackson
- FESTIVAL - Robert Ryan
- Ghost Print - Pamela Horsley
- Ghost Story - Joel Crosswell
- Huff Puff Almost There - Pamela Horsley
- Intersect # 201803 - Paul Snell
- Involute - Colin Langridge
- It's a Feeling - Chris Flood
- Lake Saint Clair, morning - Jeff Makin
- Landscape as Memento Mori - the Poet, the Painter, the Curator and the Photographer - Helena
- Demczuk
- Living on the Edge II - Trish Verdouw
- Luminous Worlds - Troy Ruffels
- Marrawah Moments #7 - Zoe Grey
- munginabitta's Country - Kelly Slater and Dave Mangenner Gough
- Ocean Pier No. 1 - Michael Muruste
- Of the Sea #1 - Amanda Walker
- Once was Is - Milan Milojevic
- Oranges and Sunshine: A Pattern of Lies - Katy Woodroffe
- PARCHED - Steve Woodbury
- Performing the Abels (Mount Jerusalem) - Lucy Hawthorne
- RELIQUARY - David Hamilton
- Tasmania - Fionna Madigan
- Tasmania Australia - Nigel Lazenby
- The Angry Church - Christine Hiller
- The Coven - Jonathan Kudelka
- Tomorrow's a New Day - Karen Williams