2016 Art Award
Mark Titmarsh was announced as the recipient of the Grace Cossington Smith art award
Chairman of Abbotsleigh Council Rev Ian Millican, Dr Mark Titmarsh, Rhonda Davis, Abbotsleigh Headmistress
Judith Poole and Dr Andrew Frost
Media release_GCS
art award 2016_winner.pdf
GCS art award
exhibition 2016_media release.pdf
The award is sponsored by Abbotsleigh and commemorates one of its alumni, Grace Cossington Smith, who is
known as a pioneer of modernist painting in Australia.
Artists were invited to submit original two dimensional artworks reflecting the theme of Making Connections. The
winning entry will form part of the permanent collection of Abbotsleigh’s Grace Cossington Smith Gallery.
The selector/judges
for the 2016 Grace Cossington Smith art award are:
Rhonda
Davis senior curator of Macquarie University Art Gallery and
Dr.
Andrew Frost researcher in science fiction, cinema and contemporary art, art critic for
Guardian Australia and a lecturer in the Dept. Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies at
Macquarie University.
The
$15,000 Grace Cossington Smith art award winner and finalists will each
be awarded $1,000. Finalists’ artworks will be
displayed at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga from 5 November to
10 December 2016.
2016 Finalists
ArtAward2016.pdf
2016 GCS Art Award
Exhibition catalogue.pdf
2016 Art
award_Finalist Price List.pdf
NICK COLLERSON
Up All Night, 2016, Oil on Linen
Represented by Liverpool Street Gallery |
DAVID COLLINS
Swamp Garden, 2016, oil on canvas, 93 x 115 cm
Represented by Frances Keevil Gallery |
BEN DENHAM
Evolution and ecology: spiral set no. 3. 2016, 445 nm laser on paper, 71.5x102 cm
Evolution and ecology: spiral pair no. 1, 2016, 445 nm laser on paper, 141.5 x 71 cm
|
SHOUFAY DERZSomeone
digging in the ground (black) 2015. Archival print on archival cotton
paper, custom made cedar frame, stained natural with eucalyptus and rust., 104 x 111 cm
Someone
digging in the ground (red) 2015, Archival print on archival cotton paper,
custom made cedar frame, stained natural with eucalyptus and rust., 104 x 111 cm
Unnamed landscape poems (Diptych) 2016, Pigment print, 90 x 99 cm each
Represented by Artereal Gallery |
KATE DOWNHILL
Slits, 2016, oil on canvas, 54 x 80
|
JOHN EDWARDS
Love is in the Air, 2015, oil on canvas, 170x137 cm
Captain Thunderbolt and family, 2015, oil on canvas, 154 x 123 cm
Picnic at Hanging Tree, 2015, oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Represented by King Street Gallery on William |
FAN DONGWANG
Dragon, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 142x140 cm
|
ASHLEIGH GARWOOD
Under Erasure #3, 2016, Inkjet on Hahnemuhle watercolour paper, 101 x 152 cm
Under Erasure #8, 2016, C-type on metallic paper, 127 x 152 cm
Represented by Brenda May Gallery |
ELOISE KIRK
Deep Dark, 2016, Collage, Resin, Binder, Pigment and Acrylic on board, 62 x 52 cm
Deep Dark 2, 2015, 35x45cm, Collage, Resin, Acrylic, Pigment, and Binder
Represented by Colville Gallery, Hobart |
LAURA MOORE
likeness #6, 2015, gelatin silver print from phone screen, edition 1of 1, 180 x 130 cm
likeness #12, 2015, gelatin silver print from phone screen, edition 1of 1, 180 x 130 cm
likeness #14, 2015, gelatin silver print from phone screen, edition 1of 1, 180 x 130cm
|
DEB MOSTERT
Sticks and Stones - Migrant Bee Eater, 2015, watercolour, 61x46,
Represented by Lorraine Pilgrim |
MARISA PURCELL
Connected, 2016, mixed media on linen, 183x168,
Interval, 2016, mixed media on linen, 183x168
Skein, 2016, mixed media on linen, 183x168
Represented by OlsenIrwin Gallery |
GENEVIEVE FELIX REYNOLDS
Replaced, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 145 x 108 cm
|
MARK TITMARSH
Light from Light, Part 1-3, 2016
acrylic and automotive polish on aluminium, 110 x 90 each, |
Mary Faith interview with Simon Hodges:Northside Radio
2016 Exhibition Photos
All exhibition photographs © Richard Glover
2016 Entry CLOSED
Key dates
Period in which work must have been completed after 1 September 2015
Artists must have been a resident of Australia/New Zealand September 2015 to September 2016
Submission of entry applications and fee from 1 May to 5 pm 12 September 2016
Finalists notified, email, phone and website 7 October 2016
Finalists' artworks delivered to the GCS Gallery 24 to 28 October 2016
Announcement of winner 5 November 2016
Grace Cossington Smith art award 2016 exhibition 5 November to 10 December 2016
2016 Conditions of Entry
2016_GCSGallery Art
Award_Conditions of entry.pdf
gcsgallery@abbotsleigh.nsw.edu.au
www.CalendarForArtists.com
http://www.art-prizes.com.au/