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25.01.2022 SARAH RHODES. In honour of the natural world (Portrait of artist Robyn Mayo) Hahnemühle photo cotton rag... 80 x 100 cm 2019 Robyn Mayo understands the melancholy of the Tasmanian light. She describes it as something that can infect your thinking if you are susceptible to a darkness of mind. Melancholy is a vital part of the creative process and nature is a place to reflect. She sits in her home amongst her husband’s curious collection of antiques and decorative arts. The chalky white whale bones hanging on the wall behind Mayo remind us of the fragility of life and how we need honour our natural world. Mayo has worked creatively in Tasmania over the past 20 years since moving here from the mainland. Her inspiration comes from landscape, particularly native plants and the uses they have both in the home and medicinally. This was reflected in her past work concentrating on landscape and plants in Central Australia and the Kimberley. Twenty years-ago Robyn planted an arboretum of Tasmanian plants on part of the property she shares with her husband. As the arboretum moves towards maturity, she is also moving her work to the Tasmanian landscape and its plants, always looking to unearth their secret properties. * * * * cast your VOTE in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award here: https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award See more

24.01.2022 Voting is closing soon for the 2020 Bell Bay Aluminum People's Choice Award. To have your say in who should win the $3,000 prize, simply visit the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania website and select the work you like the most from this year’s finalists. Hurry! Voting closes at 3pm on 18th October 2020.... The artwork with the most votes will be announced as the winner of the People's Choice Award on Tuesday 20th October 2020. https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award

23.01.2022 Are you ready for an amazing 2021? We are! Applications open for the 2021 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania on 1st December 2020.

21.01.2022 WREN MOORE. Where The Light Wrecks Contemporary jewellery, brass, beach sand, silk thread 44 x 1 x 7.5 cm... 2019 Where The Light Wrecks is a contemporary body adornment object worn around the neck, imbued with a narrative of the artists’ experiences of living on the Island of Tasmania for the past 16 years. This work holds within its form, the endurance of living on an island surrounded by large, impassable bodies of water that act as a barrier and boundary. New landscapes emerge from moments of intense physical, mental and emotional trauma. Through scar lines, both seen and unseen, a fragile yet strong presence emerges. These are the impacts on the body from landscapes of considerable change and isolation, held within the object itself. Where The Light Wrecks becomes an artefact of islandness, isolation and the struggle for freedom from societal pressures for women who remain unwittingly trapped on the island. Wren Moore is an emerging artist in contemporary jewellery and object design and graduated with Honours from the School of Creative Arts and Media in Hobart at the University of Tasmania. In 2020, Wren is commencing a PhD in Creative Arts at James Cook University. * * * * cast your VOTE in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award here: https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award See more

18.01.2022 Vote now in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award!

17.01.2022 PAMELA HORSLEY. Caroline Liardet with Féliceté-Perpétue Roses Enamel and acrylic on alluminium composite 112 x 124 x 5 cm... 2019 Painting my ancestor Caroline Fredrica Liardet from a little watercolour by her husband Wilbraham seven generations back, gave me goose bumps. I became deeply connected as I saw young Caroline through Wilbraham’s loving artist gaze. Caroline, ill prepared for a pioneer’s life proved to be the resourceful and resilient backbone that kept her large family (eventually numbering thirteen or fourteen children) together. On the family’s arrival from England at Port Melbourne in 1839 she was bundled off the ship, the William Metcalf, to camp on the isolated beach with her eight children while Wilbraham sailed to Sydney on one of his impetuous business ventures. On what became known as Liardet’s Beach she cooked up game, hunted by her sons at the nearby lagoon. She defended the family from frequent uninvited visits from violent smugglers. For years Caroline doggedly persisted as an hotelier’s wife and three times made the dangerous voyage back to England on family business. The white roses reference Caroline’s mother Countess Féliceté-Perpétue Catherine de Paul de Lamanon d’Albe. The rose was developed in Paris before the French Revolution when she was Lady in Waiting to Marie Antoinette. I have had works exhibited in major art prizes in Tasmania and interstate. I am studying BAFA with Honours at UTAS and coordinate the Poatina Tree Gallery. * * * * cast your VOTE in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award here: https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award See more

15.01.2022 Vote now in the Bell Bay Aluminium people's Choice Award!

14.01.2022 SARAH RHODES. Paper Plane Hahnemühle photo cotton rag 75 x 90 cm... 2019 Island. We are surrounded. Surrounded by sea. By ocean. Pushing at us. Us pushing back. In this enclosure we look, constantly, at ourselves. We need no mirrors. Fully formed in our own image. Young and strong we bend and twine, twist and writhe. A new creature. A bold new form. Resilient. Self-derived. As we grow, we harden. Slowly. Memories of our childhood. Making childhood memories. Flying paper planes. A land lost. Time lost. Lost but renewed. Nostalgia originally defined as the act of longing for home. Now nostalgia describes a longing for what was, feelings of sentimentality. We try to recreate our childhood in our own children. The cycle starts again. Do we learn anything before passing down our experience? Paper planes is part of a series investigating islandness and the role of place in shaping who we are. How do isolation and self-containment intertwine and influence? How does the coastline affect our psyche? * * * * cast your VOTE in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award here: https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award See more

12.01.2022 AND THE WINNER IS... We are happy to announce the winner of the $3,000 Bell Bay Aluminum People’s Choice Award for 2020 is HAYLEY STRUTT for her work The Burden and the Bounty. Thank you to everyone who voted and special thank you to Bell Bay Aluminum for their support for the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania.... CONGRATULATIONS TO HAYLEY!

09.01.2022 Congratulations again to Hayley Strutt on winning the Bell Bay Aluminium People’s Choice Award. https://www.examiner.com.au//photo-that-explores-motherh/

09.01.2022 TRACEY COCKBURN. China Gift Store Archival pigment print 200 x 90 cm... 2019 Mementos for Miss Gladys Sym Choon: China Gift Store Living in Adelaide for a number of years, I was always attracted to a narrow shop in Rundle St in the East End - the district that was once the home to South Australia’s wholesale fruit and vegetable markets. The shop was curiously named Miss Gladys Sym Choon, selling high and contemporary fashion and accessories. Gladys Sym Choon was a successful Adelaide and Hobart business woman through the middle of the 20th century. The daughter of Chinese migrants who arrived in Australia just prior to the implementation of the white Australia policy, Gladys established the China Gift Store in 1923 importing napery and fancy goods from China. Although successful in business, the Sym Choons lived with the restrictive immigration legislation and racial tensions of the time. Unlike her family born overseas, Gladys did not require the certificate of exemption allowing her to travel freely overseas to purchase wares for her shops. The Adelaide shop was sold by descendants of the Sym Choons in the 1980s, the new owners retaining the name until this day. These small works pay homage to the pioneering Miss Gladys Sym Choon, businesswoman and vendor of Chinese luxury items, whose success came despite the constraints and prejudices of the times. * * * * cast your VOTE in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award here: https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award See more

09.01.2022 SAMANTHA DENNIS. Germination Porcelain paper clay 100 x 100 cm... 2019 Germination the process of growth and development describes both the transitional nature of working as an emerging artist, and the metamorphosis of seeds and pollen which has long fascinated me. Growing up I felt torn between pursuit of a career in the arts or biology; my practice now bridges these two passions. I examine scientific illustrations and natural history collections to develop work that talks about or respond to the phenomena of life. This set of five magnified pods are hand built in porcelain paper clay and have developed in response to the visual tropes of seeds, pollen and spores. They were completed whilst working as Artist in Residence at Don College (Devonport) through Arts Tasmania ‘2019 Education Residency Program’. The pieces sit together as enlarged, petrified specimen and invite the viewer to examine and resonate with the simplistic beauty of their form. * * * * cast your VOTE in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award here: https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award See more

08.01.2022 Don't forget to visit our exhibition at Makers' Workshop before it closes on October 18th!

06.01.2022 SUZE VAN DER BEEK. 6:48 pm, 27 October 2019 Archival pigment print 71 x 107 cm... 2019 Water, light, space and atmosphere are the basic elements out of which my work evolves. My method foregrounds the reflective surface of a small body of water contained in a glass bowl in- relation-to the surrounding lighting conditions. I work with the landscape convention (specifically the relations between foreground, background and horizon) as akin to an architectural structure; a window, a doorway, a room. I work with the bowl of water as like a bell that reverberates and resonates. Amplifying the aesthetic relation between atmospheric light, a small body of water and the camera’s light sensor is a means of underlining the sensitivity of the relation between the world and the image. 6:48 pm, 27 October is an unashamedly feminine image. The light is soft, expansive, encompassing and surrounding. In my experience of this image, there is a sense of being enveloped in skeins and threads, thicknesses of light; simultaneously holding, and being held. * * * * cast your VOTE in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award here: https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award See more

06.01.2022 SHARIFAH EMALIA AL-GADRIE. Assimilation Acrylic, Tyvek photo print collage and leaf on canvas 61 x 91 x 4 cm... 2019 ‘Assimilation’ draws on the artist’s personal experiences to examine the types of microagressions that can act as a driving force to assimilate people of colour and culture into mainstream Australia. This piece illuminates a formative experience in the artist’s life being bullied at school for having dark hair on the sides of her face, like many of the other women in her family but unlike any of the other Australian kids at school. ‘Assimilation’ isolates a point in the artist’s personal history which exemplifies the erasure of points of difference and the overwhelming pressure to fit in. The use of a blue Payne’s grey with gold leafing is a colour palette which is repeated in the body of work that this piece belongs in riffing on colours that echo the Australian flag. This palette references the intent of this work to reframe concepts of identity and belonging in contemporary Australia. * * * * cast your VOTE in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award here: https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award See more

05.01.2022 SUE LOVEGROVE. The Voice of Water (No 9.9) Watercolour and gouache on paper 8 x 24.5 cm... 2019 Where there’s water there is life. It is a simple concept, but in our climate stressed environment, water is becoming increasingly transient, rare and precious. A small shallow freshwater lagoon is filled with water for the first time in many years and life crystalizes into action accompanied by a cacophony of sound as birds, frogs and insects all sing with an intensity ‘of this moment’. Within a few weeks the water will recede into the shadows and lie hidden beneath the ground. It is a poignant and precious moment to witness. The richness, fecundity and life that the lagoon supports, is because of the presence of water. In this miniature painting I have tried to capture this fragility and fleeting nature of life in a lagoon - the embrace of its reaches, the constantly shifting light patterns, its melancholy darkness, the movement of wind imprinting on both water and the feathery expanse of grasses and the rhythmic pulsing soundtrack of place. * * * * cast your VOTE in the Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award here: https://www.womensartprizetas.com.au/peoples-choice-award See more