2009 Selected Artists
This year our curator, the renowned Australian Artist Imants Tillers, has once again selected a stellar cast of contemporary artists to exhibit at the Redlands Westpac Art Prize. Among them are the following:
Hany ARMANIOUS
Hany Armanious has exhibited internationally for almost two decades. Major solo exhibitions include a survey show at the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, USA, curated by Anthony Huberman (2008); Morphic Resonance, at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and City Gallery Wellington, curated by Robert Leonard (2006 & 2007) and a solo exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. In 2006, Armanious was included in the Busan Biennale in Korea, an international group exhibition Uncanny Nature at ACCA in Melbourne and Adventures with form in space, the Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Armanious exhibited in the 1995 Johannesburg Biennale (curated by Kendall Geers), the 1992 Biennale of Sydney (curated by Tony Bond). In 1993 he was selected for the prestigious Aperto section of the Venice Biennale (curated by Achille Bonito Oliva).
Anne ZAHALKA
Anne Zahalka (b. 1957) is one of Australia's most highly-regarded photographic artists. She has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas for over twenty-five years. In 2007, the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, mounted a major retrospective of her work, Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987 - 2007, which toured to four venues in Australia. Zahalka has been the recipient of numerous awards and commissions, including the Macaurthur Cook Prize (2008), the National Photographic Prize (2007), the Leopold Godowsky Photography Award, Boston (2005) and the Sydney Airport commission, Welcome to Sydney (2003). Her works are held in most major public collections in Australia. She is interested in contemporary and historic images that define nations and place, particularly popular imagery such as postcard photography.
Lyndell BROWN and Charles GREEN
Lyndell Brown was born in 1961 in Melbourne; Charles Green was born in 1953 in Melbourne. Since 1989, Brown and Green have worked in collaboration as one artist. They have held more than 24 solo exhibitions and have been included in more than 35 group exhibitions. They are represented in most major Australian collections. In early 2007 they were Australian Official Artists for the Australian War Memorial, working on location with the Australian Defense forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf. Lyndell Brown has a PH from the University of New South Wales. Charles Green is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne and has a PhD from the University of Melbourne.
Jane BURTON
Born in 1966, Jane Burton currently lives and works in Melbourne. In 1991, she graduated with a BFA (Honours) in Photography from the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, followed by an Honorary Research Associate in 1993. Since then, Burton has held numerous solo exhibitions nationally and has participated in many curated exhibitions and museums shows. Recently Burton was included in Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photo-media at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, and Neo goth: back in black at the University of Queensland Art Museum. This year the Glen Eira City Council Gallery in Melbourne is mounting a retrospective on her work, Eye of the Beholder: A twenty year survey. Burton has been the recipient of residencies in Paris and London, and her work is held in prominent private and public collections.
Julie GOUGH
Julie Gough (born Melbourne, 1965), is an artist, writer and curator who lives in Hobart. creating predominately mixed media and installation work, Julie's art and research focuses on uncovering and re-presenting often conflicting and subsumed histories. Much of her work refers to the impacts of colonialism, and her won family's experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Julie has exhibited widely in Australia, and her work is represented in state, national and private collections. Most recently Julie was guest curator at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, developing the exhibition Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal women's fibre work, that opened in July 2009.
Harry NANKIN
Rather than literally photograph the world, Melbourne-based photo-media artist Harry Nankin uses traditional photographic materials and techniques to record traces, to question, evoke and explore. The most unique strand of his oeuvre has been his investigation into the meaning of nature and landscape in modernity using the camera-less 'shadowgram' to record ecological phenomena. Employing processes that are partly land art, partly performance and partly photography, he turns the landscape itself into a camera. Harry Nankin is the recipient of Arts Victoria and Australia Council art grants and his work is held in several public collections including the National gallery of Victoria, the Jewish Museum of Australia and the Monash Gallery of Art.
Rosslynd PIGGOTT
Rosslynd Piggott has been exhibiting since 1981 both in Australia and Internationally. She has staged over 40 solo exhibitions and has been included in over 100 group exhibitions. In 1998, the National Gallery of Victoria mounted an important survey exhibition of her work, titled Suspended Breath. In 2008 Piggott received the Helen MacPherson Smith Commission to produce a major installation at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, titled Extract: in 3 parts. Piggott's practice shifts between painting, installation and object. Travel has long been an important influence on her work, particularly her residences in Europe and Japan.
Brigita OZOLINS
Briigita Ozolins is a Hobart-based artist and academic with a background as a librarian. She uses installation, digital media and performance to explore the themes of language, history, bureaucracy and identity, reflecting her interest in the book, the word and the library. Since 1995, Brigita has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions and has completed commissions for the State Library of Tasmania and the Soros Foundation, Latvia. She has received numerous artist grants, such as the 2008 inaugural Qantas Contemporary Art Award, and has undertaken residences in Riga, London, Paris, Gorge Cottage in Launceston, and Port Arthur, Tasmania.
Eugenia RASKOPOULOS
Eugenia Raskopoulos lives and works in Sydney and has exhibited regularly over 27 years. Her work engages with photography, video, performance and installation. She has been the recipient of several grants and awards including a Scholarship from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2004 she was awarded the Western Sydney Fellowship by Arts New South Wales. Her work is represented in most major state galleries in Australia including the National gallery of Australia. Raskopoulos' work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2007 her work was included in the Night Comers Project at the 10th International Istanbul Biennial 2007 and in 2008 in Intrude: Art & Life 366 Project by Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China and Video Logic a the museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Hany Armanious
Anne Zahalka
Lyndell Brown & Charles Green
Jane Burton
Julie Gough
Harry Nankin
Rosslynd Piggott
Brigitte Ozolins
Eugenia Raskopolous
