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Torres Strait Islander Daniel O’Shane has won the $15,000 National Works on Paper Prize, sponsored by Beleura House & Garden.
O’Shane’s winning work, Aib Ene Zogo ni Pat (Story of Aib and the sacred waterhole) (2015), was chosen from the sixty-six artists shortlisted from around Australia from close to 1,000 entries for the $50,000 ‘National Works on Paper’ acquisitions and awards. The prize, the most prestigious prize and exhibition of its type in Australia, showcases recent works by artists working in the field of drawing, printmaking, digital prints and paper sculpture.
This biennial’s judges – Kirsty Grant, Director & CEO of the Heide Museum of Modern Art; Roger Butler, Senior Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Australia and Jane Alexander, Director Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery – spoke of their winning choice: “The winning work by Daniel O’Shane is remarkably accomplished and monumental in scale; created by a young artist, using the traditions of Torres Strait Islander art that has developed in Cairns over the last 20 years. Coming out of the histories of carving pearl shell, the intricacy of the cutting in this work is simply amazing.”
Victorian artist Lily Mae Martin was the winner of the $3,500 Ursula Hoff Institute Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Award 2016 for her work Wrestling three (2015). Other pieces acquired include works by Jonas Ropponen, who grew up on the peninsula, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Rew Hanks, Mark Hilton, Jake Homes, Deborah Kelly for her stop motion animated paper collage, Roy McIvor, Fiona McMonagle and Jim Pavlidis. The Friends of MPRG purchased Brian Robinson’s Up in the Heavens.
National Works on Paper was established in 1998 and incorporated the former Spring Festival of Drawing and the Prints Acquisitive which began in 1973. Regarded as one of Australia’s most prestigious awards and acquisitive exhibitions, its role is to support and promote contemporary Australian artists working on, or with paper.
Come along to the National Works on Paper Family Day, with ‘drop-in’ creative activities, Sunday 28 August, 2-4.30pm, no bookings required. Use the power of paper to create some crazy critters, wild dinosaur hats or vibrant wheels of colour. Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition at 3pm.
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG)
Until 11 September, 2016
Melbourne
Winner of the $15,000 Beleura House & Garden Acquisitive Award, 2016 National Works on Paper:
Daniel O’Shane, Aib Ene Zogo ni Pat (Story of Aib and the sacred waterhole), 2015, vinyl cut, handcoloured, handwiped (watercolour)
Winner of the $3500 Ursula Hoff Institute Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Award :
Lily Mae Martin, Wrestling three, 2015
Courtesy of the artist and Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
