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The ‘Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards’, one of the richest Indigenous arts prizes in the country, is a national award which celebrates the breadth, diversity and excellence of art from all corners of Indigenous Australia. The Awards acknowledge the significant and ongoing contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists make to Australian art, culture and society.
Sandra Hill from Balingup, WA, has won the ‘People’s Choice Award ‘of $5,000 in the ‘Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards’ 2015. She received the highest number of votes from the public.
Sandra Hill is a Wardandi/Minang/Ballardong/Wilmen woman. She has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally, her talent extends across various media including collage, printing, sculpture, installation and public art.
“For decades Hill’s artistic and curatorial practice has been pivotal in the contemporary art movement of Noongar people: she has been creating a ‘visual essay’ of experiences and recording histories of her people’s strength and culture” said Kimberley Moulton, Project Officer/Curator for Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum and one of this year’s judges.
Carly Lane, AGWA Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, congratulated Hill on the Award, “Congratulations to Sandra Hill on her win of the ‘People’s Choice Award.’ For years, Sandra worked hard at building and refining her practice, which is now paying dividends. Her work and life stories embody both trauma and resilience. These conditions, along with her courage and artful articulation of hidden histories, makes her work understandably popular.”
Lane also said that “Sandra Hill’s win caps off a triple win for women artists in Australia.” Hill joins the overall prize winner Megan Cope and Eunice Yunurupa Porter – the ‘Western Australian Artist Award’ recipient, on the art podium of this year’s ‘Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards.’
Sandra Hill’s thought-provoking works, along with those of the 13 other finalists in this year’s Awards will be on display at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The WAIAA exhibition is a free event. For more information visit, http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/WAIAA_2015/Peoples-Choice-Winner-Sandra-Hill.asp
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Until 12 Oct, 2015
Western Australia
Sandra Hill Homemaker #9: The hairdresser 2014, oil on linen, 76 x 91cm
Courtesy the artist and Mossenson Galleries. © the artist, courtesy Mossenson Galleries
