WINNER

Artist Name: TODD WHISSON

Artwork Title: THE ROAD TO KILCOY

Medium: Oil

Size: 87 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Producing works in a picturesque style of local areas, simplistic and honest. Capturing the feeling of light and the contrast of emerging shadows to narrate what I am wanting to express.

Artist Statement:

‘The Road to Kilcoy’ is a landscape painting of rapidly changing farmland depicting vast empty paddocks, contorted trees, and brutally eroded creek beds previously gone unnoticed. This work symbolises the early influence of colonisation versus the free spiritual world of the Moreton Bay Shire and how I perceive it today.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: SCOTT MCDOUGALL

Artwork Title: AFTERNOON LIGHT, TENTERFIELD NSW

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 63 x 140cm

About the Artist:

Scott is a professional artist with over 40 solo exhibitions, and many more group shows, undertaken during his career. He is well represented in collections Australia wide, the USA , Europe and south East Asia.

Artist Statement:

To create this painting, I spent days chasing the fading afternoon light, racing along dusty tracks just west of Tenterfield. The fleeting warm glow embraces the tranquil rural landscape before it suddenly plunges into a cold black night.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: LINDY SALE

Artwork Title: THROUGH LEAVES

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 76 x 102cm

About the Artist:

It is one year since I moved from Brisbane to live on the Sunshine Coast hinterland where I am now surrounded by forest. As a painter, the change of place has had a strong effect on my subject matter, colour references and my growing depth of understanding of this environment.

Artist Statement:

There is a creek which wends its way through the trees in the valley. A path leads down through the lush and varied forest to the edge of the water, where palms grow. When it rains the stream quickly changes from still and restful to a rushing pale-yellow watercourse.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: DAVID KAS

Artwork Title: PERMANENCE

Medium: Oil and wax

Size: 152 x 152cm

About the Artist:

David Kas studied painting at the National Art School, E,S.T.C Sydney, in the mid 80’s. Over the last 35 years his work has been exhibited in over 50 solo and group shows. His multi-award winning work has been recognised across various awards and exhibitions, including the 2013 Lethbridge 10000 art award. His works are represented in private, corporate and public collections.

Artist Statement:

Drawing on nature's sublime and aesthetic qualities, ‘Permanence’ celebrates the mysticism of the landscape – the spirit concealed in matter. The atmospheric effects of light and darkness also plays a role, with the emphasis on the dramatic and the ability it has to make the ordinary extraordinary.

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Artist Name: GILLIAN DAY & PAUL HIGGS

Artwork Title: PERFORMANCE IN LANDSCAPE

Medium: Video

Size: 0 x 0cm

About the Artist:

We are both practicing exhibiting artist and close friend's living in the Illawarra and have both been exploring abstract landscape painting and sharing ideas for over 30 years, often collaborating on projects.

Artist Statement:

Video Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0rlns3fgdo3li1a/Lethbridge%20Prize%20-video%20entry%20paulhiggs.mp4?dl=0
This video entry was made from our drone footage taken above the shoreline at Austinmer NSW, and focuses on forms moving in the landscape.
Gillian Day did the drawing performance on the landscape with the elements of the landscape. Paul Higgs compiled and enhanced the footage to make this video.

* (Clip from video has been sent for the image required above)