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2021 EXHIBITION. womensartprizetas.com.au LETTER FROM CAROL SCHWARTZ AO, CHAIR TRAWALLA FOUNDATION. The RANT ARTS team have worked incredibly hard to keep this prize going which showcases some extraordinary Tasmanian talent. Trawalla Foundation has been delighted to support the prize since it was reimagined and see the impact it is having within the community. As we know, the arts sector has been particularly impacted by the pandemic and I commend the team on their perseverance in adapting to the challenges. I am thrilled that the Women’s Art Prize will hold the full set of physical exhibitions this year, beginning in Burnie on 10 June. We are excited about the opening of The Tasman hotel in Hobart later this year, a Trawalla Group development, which will become the proud home to the winning artworks each year. I am proud to support the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania and the important As the state’s only art prize for women, work they are doing to support the the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania is artistic development of Tasmanian pursuing critical work by creating women artists. The prize is a vital step awareness of gender issues as well towards gender equality in the arts by as identifying and promoting the showcasing, celebrating and fostering exceptional talents which exist within the talent of women artists. the community. Carol Schwartz AO Chair Trawalla Foundation womensartprizetas.com.au 01 ABOUT EXHIBITION THE PRIZE. DATES & LOCATION. The Women’s Art Prize Tasmania is the state’s only female BURNIE art competition. Re-launched in 2018, the prize aims 11 JUNE - to inspire, facilitate and celebrate the development of 25 JULY 2021 professional and emerging women artists in Tasmania. MAKERS SPACE GALLERY This prestigious and exclusive The Women’s Art Prize Tasmania competition consists of three prize seeks to inspire through: 2 BASS HWY, categories: – Identifying, promoting, encouraging BURNIE, TAS, 7320 • $15,000 acquisitive and celebrating exceptional local and prize presented by the emerging Tasmanian women artists, Trawalla Foundation, – Exhibiting high quality and emerging • $3,000 Bell Bay Aluminium art to the Tasmanian public, People’s Choice award, and, – Increasing awareness of culture, Visual Arts and gender issues within • $1,500 Zonta Emerging Tasmania, HOBART Artist prize. – Developing an extensive network of 8 OCTOBER - The prize is judged by a panel support for women’s art in Tasmania comprised of recognised arts industry 31 OCTOBER 2021 through partnerships and sponsors, professionals. The prize is open to and Tasmanian artists identifying as ROSNY BARN women. Entries are accepted across – Promoting artistic education and LOT 2 ROSNY HILL RD, all mediums and open to artists of all facilitation with schools and young ROSNY PARK TAS 7018 career stages. The prize encourages people. artists of Aboriginal and Torres Strait island heritage to enter. 2021 EXHIBITION womensartprizetas.com.au 03 WORDS FROM THE COMMITTEE. The mission of the Women’s Art Prize Our thanks go to our partners and Tasmania is to empower and celebrate sponsors for their unfailing commitment women artists across the state. This is to the prize and for their ongoing especially important during challenging support of Tasmania’s women artists. times. Women’s Art Prize Tasmania We acknowledge and thank our prize has become one of the state’s most partners: the Trawalla Foundation, KITTY TAYLOR NATHAN TUCKER LOU CLARK prestigious annual art prizes that Bell Bay Aluminium, part of the Rio RANT ARTS. RANT ARTS. BELL BAY ALUMINIUM. encourages and inspires the creativity of Tinto Group and Zonta (Area 5) for their women artists in Tasmania. support of the Acquisitive, Emerging Artists and People’s Choice Prizes. We The importance of the award as would also like to acknowledge the an inspiration and focus cannot be Tasmanian Government, University overstated, with 157 entries submitted of Tasmania, Clarence City Council, for this year’s prize. Our thanks and Contemporary Art Tasmania, Walker admiration go to each artist for their Designs, Think Big Printing and RANT for resilience and talent. They gave so their financial and in-kind support. generously of themselves to submit their entries and we deeply appreciate their Congratulations to our 2021 finalists and support of the prize. prize winners! CHRISTINE HEPBURN SUE DYSON We would also like to thank and BUSINESS CONSULTANT. ZONTA. acknowledge the judges for their time, expertise, knowledge and experience in shortlisting the 25 finalists and selecting the Acquisitive and Emerging Prizes. 2021 EXHIBITION womensartprizetas.com.au 05 MEET OUR JUDGES. KYLIE JOHNSON. SARAH RHODES. Kylie Johnson is a curator at Contemporary Art Tasmania and has Born in 1974, Sarah studied fine art and psychology gaining her an independent art practice. Kylie has developed and facilitated arts degree from the University of Sydney. Working between numerous projects at CAT including the Shotgun program - since Sydney and Tasmania, she has created documentary-style images its inception in 2010 – to deliver targeted support and opportunity exploring ways in which the natural environment can guide an to Tasmanian artists through industry access, critical engagement understanding of one’s inner world. In 2020, she won the Women’s and the provision of new work. She employs curatorship within Art Prize Tasmania with Paper Plane and in 2011 she won the her practice as a means of enabling and shaping the social New York Photo Award (Fine Art) for Play, depicting children relationships through which art is generated. undertaking survival games in the bush to understand their feelings of grief. Five times a finalist in the National Photographic Kylie received her MFA from the University of Tasmania in Hobart Portrait Prize, in 2014 she exhibited at Photoville in New York and during which time she also studied at the Glasgow School of in 2015 at the Australian Centre for Photography. Her photographs Art, Scotland. Supported by an Arts Tasmania Professional have been published by The New York Times, GEO Germany, Development Fellowship, in 2018 Kylie undertook research into Australia Geographic, the British Museum, Smithsonian and the innovative contemporary art organisation models at Matt’s Gallery, Vatican Museum. She is currently studying a PhD in the School Studio Voltaire and other progressive art spaces in London. Kylie of Creative Arts, at the University of Tasmania. She is a founding has worked at Artspace in Sydney and has contributed to various member of the female-identifying photography collective Lumina. art advisory committees and panels in Australia. TRACY PUKLOWSKI. At the time of judging, Tracy was the General Manager - Creative Arts and Cultural Services & Director of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston. She has since taken up the role as Senior Director of the National Aboriginal Art Gallery planned for in Alice Springs. Tracy has an MA (Hons) in Art History, and postgraduate qualifications in Museum Studies and Museum Leadership. She has held a range of senior position across regional and national cultural institutions, including Director of the National Army Museum of New Zealand, and Associate Director at the National Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa. Her Art History studies included specialisation in women artists and Australian art. Inclusive practice is core to Tracy’s practice as a cultural leader, and is also a central element of QVMAG’s development as a dynamic and thought-provoking museum and gallery. Under Tracy’s leadership, QVMAG is encouraging new conversations about its collections through sharing different perspectives and stories. 2021 EXHIBITION womensartprizetas.com.au 07 ABIGAIL GIBLIN. Late Summer Soak, 2021 Floral installation, documented and mounted to aluminium 67 x 100 cm There’s a saying that time heals all wounds, but grief tells a different story. Time passes with each year marked by the natural rhythms of our surrounds; Wattle bursts in late winter, Blossom follows, paving way for our streets to be lined with vibrant Flowering Gum in late summer. There is no marker or end to which one will grieve for another. ‘Late Summer Soak’ reflects on the surreal life flowers take on when they become markers of loss, and utilises Flowering Gum to acknowledge the passage of time. Flowers play a significant role in how we deal with death, as we use them to speak for us when we have no words. The Hydrangea embodies this, as it becomes a physical mediator between the viewer and myself. Image supplied by artist 2021 EXHIBITION womensartprizetas.com.au 09 ANDREA BARKER. Femme, 2020-21 Porcelain 70 x 10 x 60 cm My collections of objects are intended to create a space for contemplation and a sense of tranquillity where silence, stillness and restraint abide alongside a notion of simplicity and humility. An exploration and celebration of the poetics of feminine form, through the archaeology of the vessel and its remains allude to the beauty and strength of women through the ages from antiquity to the present. Each piece gently presents a sense of curve and balance enclosing space, time, memory and emotion. Image supplied by artist 2021 EXHIBITION womensartprizetas.com.au 11 ANNE MORRISON. Small Worlds, 2020 Acrylic on linen 122 x 137 cm I live and work in Forth on Tasmania’s North West Coast. As an abstract painter I have been creating works in response to my local coastal environment and surrounding bushlands where I walk most days. ‘Small worlds’ is a painting which weaves together my experience of the bush after heavy rain and the tiny colourful forms often discovered bursting with life, hidden in the undergrowth. The fluid painting processes emerge as a primary metaphor in exploring the nature of geographic experience; how a place is known, remembered, understood and engaged with. For me, this evolves over time; a familiar place observed all year round, year in year out, in a continual process of transition and transformation.