WINNER

Artist Name: WARREN CROSSETT

Artwork Title: THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLARITY OF A LOCAL CREEK

Medium: Acrylic on linen, laid on hardboard

Size: 42 x 98cm

About the Artist:

Concepts and unspoken language is a regular focus in my work, where I seek to instigate questions in the viewer. Whether the theme is a portrait or a landscape, I am often looking to communicate something, sometimes obscure other times more obvious.

Artist Statement:

The goal with this four part work, was to elicit a measure of disappointment with the environmental contrasts of a local creek. From it's beginning, journeying through to where it joins a river. Showing polarising stages of - Ugly to pleasant to foul to pleasant again.

Judge’s Comment:

The piece 'The environmental polarity of a local creek' is an exquisitely rendered painting that tells a powerful time-based story by focusing on a small and often overlooked natural setting, the simple creek. It captures the friction of two landscapes, the urban and the natural, coming in contact and questions the benefits of relentless progress. All the artist's skills are at their peak in this artwork, and it is a deserving winner of the 2023 Landscape Prize.

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Artist Name: LARS VESTER

Artwork Title: GENTLE DAWN OF A NEW AGE

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 92 x 62cm

About the Artist:

Lars Vester is a Danish born artist living in Brisbane, working predominantly in the medium of oils.

Lars’s work is often constructed from memory and his impression of the environment, expressing the moment through the ephemeral qualities of colour and light.

Lars has had a number of successful exhibitions in both Europe and Australia, including various solo, group and Award Shows.

His work is represented in several private and corporate collections around the globe.

Artist Statement:

A moment in time, constructed from a memory of a recent visit to Byron Bay, NSW.

The transient light, hues and contrasts converging in a playful visual delight, inspired me to re-imagine this scene.

Delving into my subconscious during the painting process allowed me to feel this serene moment of stillness once again.

Notions of a symbolic nature arose, illustrating the deep night of present times being pierced by the gentle dawning of a new age.

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Artist Name: HENRI VAN NOORDENBURG

Artwork Title: COMPOSITION XCII

Medium: Handcarved inkjet print

Size: 50 x 110cm

Artist Statement:

Composition series artworks suggesting the quiet moments during the destruction caused by global warming, The sombre colouring are a metaphor for of mental health, dominant beside the greens of the bonsai on the edge of the cliff, questioning the survival of human kind or as we attempt to survive and assimilate in a new world.

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Artist Name: PAULA QUINTELA

Artwork Title: THE DREAM

Medium: Etching with hand colouring and chine collé paper dressmaking patterns, ink, watercolour, coloured pencil on Hahnemüle

Size: 106 x 147cm

About the Artist:

Paula Quintela completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from Universidad de Chile. Having studied professional photography at Fotoforum Institute in Chile, ceramics at Fanshaw College in London (Canada) and printmaking with Canadian artist Jean Pierre Sauvé in Montreal. Exhibiting in both solo and group exhibitions in Chile and abroad, including France, Argentina, New York, Hong Kong and Australia.

Her current work explores the cultural experiences and connections between time, migration and memory.
‘In my journey as an artist, I have always been fascinated by Nature. As a result of living in strikingly different regions of the world, I have expressed this fascination in various ways. Three elements recur clearly and vigorously throughout my work: the Water, the Air and the Earth, with usually one element overtaking the others, in accordance with the characteristics of the location in which I am living at that moment. From the strong and dark oceans of South America to the textures of the Canadian forest; from the starry sky of the Atacama Desert to the mountainous Santiago city and recently to the tropical forests of Australia, I draw my imagery’.
Residing in Brisbane (Australia) she continues to develop her art practice by employing traditional practices and new media in her works though installation, printmaking and mixed media

Artist Statement:

The sky is no longer visible. In the darkness, tendrils tickle the air in and amongst the undergrowth. Fungi spawn into glowing nodules, cross-fertilising and continuing to expand and emanate light. Sea creatures float in between the tree trunks, denoting the depth and quiet of an inaccessible world.

Separated from the land, between the ground and the sky is a place of precarious safety, where somehow there is air to breathe and water in which to gently float.

The references here point to a hybridity of faith and hope, of practices and rituals from one world, modified to fit in another.

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Artist Name: J.F.A. HYND

Artwork Title: BALANCE (66 BIRDWOOD TCE, AUCHENFLOWER)

Medium: Acrylic on board

Size: 60 x 45cm

About the Artist:

Born in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, Visual Artist Jess Hynd lives and works in Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia. Hynd’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) from the Queensland University of Technology in 2002. Her multidisciplinary practice has included Performance Art, Product Design, Printmaking, Illustration, Artist Advocacy, Project Coordination and most recently, Painting.

Artist Statement:

There is an unpretentious charm about these houses and their sweet, simple gardens. Open to the street and seemingly borderless, inviting a sense of connection and neighbourhood. They appear to share a mutual understanding. Perfectly proportioned elements of house-to-garden-to-Mt Coot-tha-to-sky and a feeling of spaciousness and openness that our suburbs are losing. The light looks beautiful here.

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Artist Name: MICHAEL GALLAGHER

Artwork Title: BUILDING THE BRIDGE

Medium: Oil, acrylic and coloured pencils

Size: 60 x 120cm

Artist Statement:

I enjoy the bridge in its incomplete state ,it draws a clear line between the static skyline and the bustling river while becoming part of both.