VAS Winter Select Exhibition 2023
7 Jul 2023 – 24 Jul 2023
Opening Event & Awards Presentation, Tuesday 11 July at 7pm
Location: Frater, McCubbin & Hammond Galleries
One of three Select Exhibitions held each year by VAS. Votes cast by exhibiting artists are used to decide the list of candidates for the Artist of the Year Award Exhibition. The Winter Exhibition features prizes of Senior Art Supplies vouchers to the value of: 1st prize, $600. 2nd prize, $150. 3rd prize $100. Sculpture prize, $150.
The judge for the 2023 Winter Exhibition was Francis E. Parker. Francis joined MUMA as Curator – Exhibitions in 2011. He is an alumnus of Monash University, completing his Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Visual Culture in 2005. Francis previously worked at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, initially as Curatorial Assistant, Australian Art to 1970, then as Curator, Contemporary Australian Art. At MUMA, he has curated solo projects with Meijers + Walsh, Dylan Martorell and Kate Smith, and co-curated Artists' Proof #1 (2012), Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners and Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century (2013). In 2015, he initiated Sound Spaces, an ongoing series of experimental music performances and, in 2016, curated the exhibition Borders, Barriers, Walls.
First prize WINNER
Joe Whyte, Old and New Brunswick, Oil, NFS
second prize WINNER
Linda Weil, Cypress on the Tioga Pass, Graphite & Coloured Pencil, $1400
third prize WINNER
Lynden Stone, Rebuttal of Unicorn Pseudodoxia, Oil on Canvas, $2000
SCULPTURE WINNER
Ellen Jenkins, Simon, $800
HIGHLY COMMENDED ARTISTS
It Hao Pheh, 6th Day—Visitor Centre, Bendigo, Charcoal, $2400
TJ Murphy, Bulbous Proboscis, Oil, $750
Gregory R Smith, Stacked Bowls, Oil on Canvas, SOLD
Mary Hyde, Moorings, Oil, $2800
Samira Khadivizand, Apple Thief, Acrylic, $3420
Paul Laspagis, The Forest, Oil, $4000
curator's choice award
Sarah Ackland, Moreton Bay Fig, Graphite on Paper, $1800
Banner Image: Old and New Brunswick by Joe Whyte, First Prize 2023
Linda Weil, Cypress on the Tioga Pass, Graphite & Coloured Pencil, $1400, Second Prize Winner 2023
Lynden Stone, Rebuttal of Unicorn Pseudodoxia, Oil on Canvas, $2000, Third Prize Winner 2023
Acknowledgment of traditional owners.
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