Winner - Sculpture by the Bay
This past weekend the saw the South West Region host Sculpture by the Bay, and we are proud to say that many of our artists works were on display; Sue Smorthwaite, Wayne Smith and Anne Grotian. Sue Smorthwaite was chosen as this years Winner of the Cape Constructions Small Sculpture Prize at Sculpture by the Bay. Sue uses her chosen medium with such an unique and inspired creativity, which has seen her become a truly collectible artist. Photo credit, Christian Fletcher
Finalist -The Adelaide Perry Prize 2024
A huge congratulations to Jo Darvall for being selected as a finalist in 2024 The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing an acquisitive art award. Of her nomination Jo has said, "Im rapt and honoured to be a finalist in 2024 The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing an acquisitive art award among the most significant of its kind the selection this year was made by Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin, art historian, art critic and curator." The Adelaide Perry Prize was launched in 2006 and is named in honour of respected painter, printmaker and draughtswoman, Miss Adelaide Elizabeth Perry (1891-1973) who taught Visual Arts at PLC Sydney from 1930 to 1962, the Prize attracts submissions from around Australia. https://apg.plc.nsw.edu.au/
Finalist - Midwest Art Prize 2023
'I Am Enough' - 1600 x 850 oil on linen, kurrajong wood & thread. This stirring work by Lori Pensini has been chosen as a finalist in the Midwest Art Prize 2023, Geraldton Regional gallery. Exhibition opens 10 Dec 2023 - 4 Feb 2024 artist statement: ‘I am enough’ is a reflective response to the feminine psyche of mothering. It considers the compelling maternal instincts that drives a woman to respond to her child’s needs and welfare, and bids them against the internal conflict and self doubting of her inner strengths - of ‘being enough’.
SAY NO Campaign
In 2022 as part of the One Fight Unite team I was asked to create the new Say No poster image. A painting for a science based CAMPAIGN TO END VIVISECTION AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS. The concept came to me in an instant during the initial conversation with Duke Ingram, founder of the One Fight. Unite team. It really was quite bazaar as this topic is extremely confronting yet the concept was a clear vision in my mind's eye. I wanted to convey the message without it being so confronting that people would not want to engage. I set to work immediately while the image was still fresh in my mind hoping to achieve the desired effect. This campaign is in support of Betsy Beagle, a rescued beagle, Ambassador for Life On Earth (Floe) https://www.betsybeagle.org/ Betsy is helping Ricky Gervais and Peter Egan call for the EDM 278 science hearing to happen in parliament in London, UK. By drawing awareness to FLOE and Betsy the Beagle Ambassador we hope to contribute towards a positive outcome. The Say No campaign was launched in London, UK with Dr. Andre Menache Science consultant for the Say No campaign. Now that the Say No campaign has started its journey, it will make its way around the world in seminars, school talks, concerts and more to educate and inspire the public to take action and be the change they want to see in their community. The second chapter of the BESUREIS SAY NO educational awareness campaign https://www.besureisofficial.com/say-no-campaign.html
Finalist - Portia Geach Memorial Award 2023
A big congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist in this years Portia Geach Memorial Award for her unique artwork,'melaleuca lucinda' (after Rossetti). Of her artwork Lori has said: The melaleuca is known for its purifying properties, of both body and mind, a healer to clear negative energies and release emotional wounds that no longer serve. It is a quietly powerful allegory here for my friendship with Lucinda Giblett, writer, co-creator and founder of Stellar Violets. We reach out often exploring our complexions and identity in the natural world, the creative curios-is we share, mine visual fables, hers artistry of words, an evolutionary thread woven and whispered since the dawn of time. I wanted to capture Cin here, ingrained, of this earth, likening to Greek dryad Daphne, tree spirit, to illustrate the affinity binding of nature and people, people as nature. The Portia Geach Award is held annually supporting women artists in Australia. The artworks are to be portraits painted from life of a person distinguished in the arts, letters or sciences. The exhibition opens 3 Nov - 17 Dec and is held at the National Trust S.H. Erwin Gallery at 2 Watson Rd, Millers Point NSW.
Finalist - Melville Art Awards 2023
The amazing work of ceramists Felicity Bodycoat has been selected as a finalist in the 47th annual Melville Art Awards exhibition being held at Wireless Hill Museum located in Yagan Mia Wireless Hill Park. The Award showcases artworks by established and emerging West Australian artists and artwork may be purchased throughout the event. The award is on show till the 12th November (closed Monday), so make your way to the Wireless Hill Museum and enjoy!
Finalist - City of Stirling Art Award 2023
With the City of Stirling biennial Art Awards and Exhibition set to return from 4 - 12 November 2023, we are excited for our artist Cy Rocchi, who has been announced as a finalist with her painting Morning Start. This award showcases an extraordinary collection of 170 new works from established and emerging Western Australian artists. The works include paintings, works on paper, printmaking, textiles, photography and small sculptural works. The exhibition is open to the public and free to enjoy with all works available for sale. City of Stilring Reception Hall, 25 Cedric street, from 4-12 November 2023.
Finalist - Fisher's Ghost Art Award
Lori Pensini has been chosen as a finalist in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award this year for her amazing artwork 'Florescence - 100 x 85 cm, Oil on linen. artist statement: Florescence is a retrospective interpretation of myself as a child and the inception of my creative voice. The apricot blossom represents enlightenment and transformation reflecting here the balance between humankind and nature and my infinite bond with the natural world. The exhibition will be on display from 28th October - 8 th December at Campbeltown Arts Centre, NSW.
HELP THE HOMELESS
Fine Art AuctionThis year the Help the Homeless Fine Art Auction is at 5pm on the 9th September 2023 at the Walyalup Civic Centre in Fremantle. We are proud to say that three of the gallery artists have submitted artwork for the event, and they are just magnificent! Lori Pensini's artwork titled 'Alice & Brush Tail' is oil on linen and measures 31.5h x 30w cm. Lesley Meaney's 'Drawing the Outside In' is Acrylic on canvas and measures 100h x 100w cm. Jo Darvall's Unique print on paper is called 'Winged Realm No 32, and measures 78h x 54w cm. For more information or to book tickets go to the address below or click on the image link: https://www.visitfremantle.com.au/arts-culture/help-homeless-fine-art-auction
Sculpture Winner - Claremont Art Award,
We are thrilled to announce that artist Felicity Bodycoat was selected as the Winner of the Sculpture Award in the Claremont Art Award 2023. Of the artwork, the judges said, “The apparent simplicity of the form belies the complexity of the process and difficulty in achieving this level of perfection where the form, the internal and outer surface properties of the work are in perfect sync with each other.” We completely agree, and see this time and again with Felicity's artwork. Come and visit the gallery to see and perhaps take home some of her beautiful and functional forms.
Finalist - Claremont Art Awards 2023
Congratulations to ceramicist Felicity Bodycoat for being selected as a finalist in this years Claremont Art Awards for her work, Ellipse Series. These slip cast porcelain vessels, measuring #1: 11.5cm W x 21cm H and #2: 17cm W x 12cm H, showcases beautifully the marriage between form and design with a result that is striking in its simplicity. The winners will be announced this Friday evening of the 11th August, and if you are in the area, go and have a look! https://www.claremont.wa.gov.au/community/arts-and-culture/art-awards-exhibition/
Finalist - Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023
Lori Pensini has been selected as a finalist for the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023 for her work titled 'Chatterbox Fortune Tellers - The Critically Endangered Edition". Created with pencil and ink on paper, these chatterbox fortune tellers measure 10 x 50 x 14 cm and are as delicate in medium as the subjects are in their habitats. We are very proud of the thought provoking work by Lori Pensini. artist statement: The ‘critically endangered edition' is the 2nd release in the chatterbox fortune tellers series portraying a dystopian twist to the iconic childhood game. A combination of critically endangered common and lesser known mammal and bird species are featured to highlight their acute fragility and threat of extinction from our environmental mismanagement.
Finalist - Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2023
This unique sculptural artwork created by Lori Pensini has been chosen as a finalist in the Deakin University Contemporaty Small Sculpture Awards and we could not agree with their choice more! It is called Farm Yard, and is oil on xanthorrhoea heart wood 59cm x 39cm artist statement: This is my nanna’s story of stoic, no frills self sufficiency farming in the wheatbelt of WA. The nature of women’s farm work is often rendered invisible, dismissed as ‘domestic’ and ‘ordinary’, when the work is often the back bone in sustaining families, farms and communities.
Artists For Conservation
AFC membership spans over 30 countries and is the worlds leading art group supporting conservation. The AFC Exhibit saw a record number of submissions (492) and was the overall highest scoring show in its 16-year history. Only 40% of the submissions were accepted this year, and one of which was our very own Paula Wiegmink for her work "Landing Party"! Her work, among with others that have been selected will appear in the Artists for Conservation 2023 Virtual Exhibition and Companion book. Congratulations Paula! For more, go to this website: https://www.artistsforconservation.org/
Finalist - Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2023
Artist Lori Pensini has been selected as a Finalist in this year's Lethbridge Landscape Prize for her painting 'Wild Hibiscus Landscape' artist statement: Wild hibiscus unfurls at the beginning of my journey into self awakening living on my husband's remote cattle station in the Pilbara, WA. It is where I found my creative voice and ultimately shaped the woman I was to become. The Lethbridge Landscape is currently on show till 23rd May 2023 and well worth a visit if you are in the area.
Finalist - Minnawarra Art Awards 2023
Congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist in the Minnawarra Art Awards this year for her artwork "Little Women". artist statement: Belying the title “Little Women", this painting is a recognition of the endurance and tenacity of the matriarchal rural women in my family. They didn’t have much, unsung but not without song in an unyielding landscape. They ‘made do’ - just got on with it. They shared their stories of life and labours on the land with humoured pluck and taught me the value of remembrance, to know where you come from and to never forget those that have come before us. A salute to family culture. The Armadale Arts Festival is running till May 21st so if you are in the area it is a wonderful opportunity to view amazing artists work on display.
Finalists - The Jury Art Prize 2023
We are so proud of our two artists, Marjan Bakhtiarikish and Paula Wiegmink who have both been chosen as Finalists in this years Jury Art Prize at The Junction Co. in Port Headland. Marjan's artwork is titled 'New Hope', and Paula's artwork is titled 'Off The Beaten Track'. Finalist works will be exhibited online and at the Courthouse Gallery+Studio from 20 May – 22 July 2023. This prize showcases the amazing and diverse talent that exists in remote and regional WA. If you are in the area go treat yourself and view the exhibition in person, otherwise go look for it online at https://thejunctionco.com.au/the-jury-art-prize-contest/
Winner - Collie Art Prize 2023
Huge Congratulations to Jo DARVALL for winning this years Collie Art Prize! A very well deserved win for this highly collectable artist. Jo’s honesty and sincerity to her art is reflected in her beautiful pieces. We are so proud to represent Jo, drop in and see her fabulous paintings we have displayed in the gallery. Visit the Collie Art Gallery to see the winning painting plus all selected finalists which proudly includes our other Studio Gallery artists - Lori Pensini and Marjan Bakhtiarikish
Finalist - Colie Art Prize 2023
Congratulations to artist Lori Pensini for being selected as a dual finalist at this years Collie Art Prize. Her second painting to be chosen as a finalist is "Healing" and of the artwork Lori has said: "Family is not only defined by blood, it is a linking between our lives and the land with a sense of belonging that is enduring and consequential for our well being across our whole life.This painting is my interpretation of the ‘healing’ powers of relationships and honours my friendship with Noongar elder Aunty Kathy and her capacity to give and support free of judgement and criticism. It is about coming together, sharing our family stories, past and present and standing up for each other in a meaningful way. The painted red gum blossom ‘yorgum’ in Noongar language promotes healing." The Collie Art Prize will be available for viewing for 8 weeks and starts 4 March 2023.
Finalist - Collie Art Prize 2023
Congratulations to artist Lori Pensini for being selected as a dual finalist at this years Collie Art Prize. Painting 1 is called "Floundering Woman" and of the artwork Lori said: Flounder- to struggle to move or obtain footing. A dull spotted bottom dwelling flatfish. For 25 years Ainslie has been at the front line of mental health, the light for others in times of darkness or illness. Last year she sat in the client’s chair with her own foreboding shadowland, a treacherous traumatising experience leaving her bereft, ‘like a boat smashed on the rocks in a tumultuous sea’. (A.B) Battered. Floundering. As a family, we wade through the recovery undercurrent together, overcoming the stigma of mental illness to navigate the fear and the apprehension with compassion and creative narratives. If you are in the Collie area go see the exhibition, which will run for 8 weeks and starts 4 March 2023.
Finalist - Collie Art Prize 2023
A big congratulations to two of our artists for being selected as Finalists in the Collie Art Prize 2023. Jo Darvall for her artwork "Boranup Forest Light" 2022 and Marjan Bakhtiarikish for her artwork "Meditations" Collie Art Gallery’s $50,000 Collie Art Prize is one of regional Australia’s richest individual art prizes, with over 500 entries nationally and attracting numerous tourists to the mining town. This years theme of "Identity" saw many amazing interpretations and a wonderful selection of artworks. If you are in the region it is worth the visit to the Collie Art Gallery on 134 Throssell Street.
Finalist - Dobell Drawing Prize 2023
Congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist in The Dobell Drawing Prize 2023 for her artwork titled Chatterbox fortune tellers - the rare bird extinction series 2. artist statement: The rare bird extinction series 2, twists the childhood game of chatterbox fortune telling into a dystopian projection of a future without birds. Each fortune teller displays 4 critically endangered, endangered or extinct Australian bird species and each playing outcome arrives at the same cataclysmic point spotlighting species elimination. The aim is to emphasise the acute fragility of our environment and the need for urgent action to stabilise the ecological disequilibrium brought about by our former and current land mismanagement. Paradoxically, the act of ‘playing the game’, points critically to the fact that this isn’t a game, our planetary health isn’t something we can gamble on anymore. Only 12 out of some 200 threatened Australian bird species are featured in this edition. A mix of familiar and unfamiliar species are showcased to cultivate an awareness of the lesser known species and importantly highlight the diversity of terrains these birds inhabit. The Dobell Drawing Prize is an unparalleled celebration of drawing technique and innovation. Presented by the National Art School in partnership with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, the biennial prize explores the enduring importance of drawing within contemporary art practice. The $30,000 acquisitive prize will be awarded at the opening of the finalists’ exhibition at NAS Gallery on 30 March 2023. https://www.dobellartfoundation.org.au/our-work/dobell-drawing-prize
Finalist - Portia Geach Memorial Art Award 2022
Congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist for Australia’s most prestige women artist only art award. The Portia Geach Memorial Award is opening this Thursday night, 15th. Exhibition runs 16th sept- 6 Nov at S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney. Artist Statement - A rose in full bloom represents spiritual enlightenment, it’s beauty a symbol of promise and new beginnings. The creative pathway is a wolfish track at times, it rambles many ways, warm and soft underfoot in parts, fissured and nettled in others. I am older now, my feet steadfast and more nimble over the earth than my younger urgent ones. I know my orientation, a keening of senses rather than the physical need to see, it will draw me forward, enchanted as it does, on and over the next tundra following always the lure of the creative wind. This self portrait is a retrospective view of my journey as an artist. The roses embody my creative thoughts and inner strengths and are painted spilling from within to seed and re nourish the dry ground of past apprehension and the self doubt of my younger self.
Winner - 2022 Perth Royal Show Landscape Art Prize
A huge congratulations to Lori Pensini for winning the 2022 Perth Royal Show Landscape Art Prize. The Prize for Landscape, created in 2017, is unique within WA as the only competition for landscape works. Congratulations to all 60 finalists selected from 200 entries in a broad spectrum of styles and mediums. This years judging panel: Perth Royal Art Prize Curator Sandra Murray; WA artist & Dean of Learning & Teaching Humanities Faculty, Curtain University Dr Nicole Slatter; and Curator & Gallery Manager of the Janet Holmes a Court Collection Dr Laetitia Wilson. A special congratulations to our Studio Gallery artists Jacinda Bayne, Joanne Duffy and Jo Darvall for being selected as finalists. Well done one and all!
Perth Royal Art Prize 2022
We are so proud of our artists who made the selection for this years Royal Show Art Prize for Landscape. Congratulations to finalists Joanne Duffy, Lori Pensini, Jo Darvall, and Jacinda Bayne. Their paintings are a testament to each one of them. The exhibition will be displayed in the Wilkinson Gallery at Claremont Showgrounds, near gate 1. Please note the exhibition will not be on at the same time as the Perth Royal Show. For the first time the Prize will be shown outside the Perth Royal Show period, providing free daily access to visit and enjoy the exhibition. It will be on show from 2nd September to 10th September 2022, with ample free parking. We wish our four finalist artists the best of luck, you are all winners!
Help The Homeless Auction 2022
This year is the Soroptimist International of Fremantle is delighted to once again return to an in-person event for the 13th annual Help The Homeless Fine Art Auction. Two of our artists, Jo Darvall and Lori Pensini have artwork available for purchase and they are beautiful creations! Well done ladies for your contribution to such an important cause and for being invited by the Soroptimist International.
The event benefits the Freo Street Doctor and St Patrick’s Community Support Centre in Fremantle, whom support the most vulnerable in our community.
For more information go to:
https://events.humanitix.com/help-the-homeless-fine-art-auction
Sat 30th Jul 2022
3:30 pm - 8:00 pm AWST
Walyalup Civic Centre
151 High St, Fremantle
COSSACK 2022
We are so proud of all our artists who made it into the Cossack Art Awards this year. Congratulations to Jacinda Bayne, Simon Hemsley, Bronwen Newbury, Mary-Lynne Stratton and Paula Wiegmink! The Cossack Art Awards have grown to become one the richest acquisitive art award in regional Australia. This its 30th Anniversary Exhibition, the Cossack Art Awards showcases such a wide variety of artistic talents for all to see. If you are in the region between the 17th July - 7 August, go and view the award exhibition, open daily between 10am- 3pm.
Finalist - National Capital Art Prize 2022
An amazing painting by Lori Pensini titled 'Worlds End', has been chosen as a finalist at this years National Capital Art Prize. Not only is it a hauntingly beautiful artwork but the message it holds is of utmost importance. artist statement: 'World's End' sets a dystopian view of a landscape beyond its tipping point, unable to maintain ecological equilibrium from the plague like blindness of our environmental mismanagement. A dying jarrah tree and girl holding a memory of a bird (in the form of a paper origami model), aims to cultivate awareness of our impact on the rapid rate of species elimination and our hand in its recovery. The girls’ precarious position against a thinning branch emphasises the imbalance and displays the acute fragility of the environment placed upon inherit future generations. National Capital Art Prize is a competition open to artists Australia wide, and aims to establish the National Capital as an artistic and cultural hub. Started as a not-for-profit company it aims to encourage artists, to display and sell their work during 2020-2021, a time when many lost the ability to showcase their art to the viewing public. This year there is a new Sustainability Prize category is based on the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. credit: https://nationalcapitalartprize.com.au/
Special Merit Award - Light Space Time Online Art Exhibition
How truly fantastic that Paula Wiegmink has had two paintings win awards in LIGHT SPACE TIME Online Art Awards 2022. Her painting "Landing Party" has received a Special Merit Award out of 635 global entries in the Painting & Other Media Open Art Awards. This painting is available for purchase here at The Studio Gallery and for more information look up Paula under our Artists category. To find out more about the awards look up their website: https://lightspacetime.art/current-online-juried-art-exhibition/
Winner - Light Space Time Online Art Competition
Congratulations to artist Paula Wiegmink for winning two awards for her painting Tricycle Made For Two at this years LIGHT SPACE TIME Online Art Competition. She won Overall Top 10 Winning Artists & Artwork and the Top 15 Paintings & Other Media Winning Artists & Artwork. The gallery’s competition for June 2022 was the 12th Annual and artists from around the world were invited to participate by submitting their best abstract or representational art along the theme of 'Open'. There were 3 media categories: Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and then 3D Art, with additional Winning Artist categories; 'Best of the Best' consisting of 10 best entries over all media catergories. In the end the gallery received 635 entries from 25 different countries globally. https://lightspacetime.art/current-online-juried-art-exhibition/
Finalist - The Jury Prize 2022
We would like to congratulate Mary-Lynne Stratton for being selected as a finalist for her artwork Deluge and Rising Monolith in this years The Jury Prize. Artist Statement - This work is a comment on the unusually frequent and severe weather events that we now seem to experience. Last year I travelled to the Murchison after a particularly wet period and climbed several monolithic rocks where I experienced being surrounded by vast expanses of water. The sodden soil made me imagine this monolith rising up from the ground and floating away. High water levels after heavy rain made me think more about climate change and the effects in our country of severe flooding. The Jury Art Prize 2022 can now be viewed in the heart of Perth’s CBD, Yagan Square. If you are in the city, be sure to check out the amazing work showcased in this year’s exhibition. And when you are posting on socials, please tag us @thejunctionco_pilbara and use #thejuryartprize and #tjap2022 in your hashtags. thejunctionco.com.au
Finalist - The Jury Art Prize 2022
A big congratulations to Jo Darval for being selected as a finalist in this years Jury Prize for her painting, Bonarup Forest U Tree 2022. The Junction Co. and Courthouse Gallery+Studio showcases 50 artworks from artists from across regional Western Australia, resulting in a unique show of diverse perspectives and artists stories about their regional WA communities. Finalists were selected from all media and included painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media from Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. The Jury Art Prize 2022 can now be viewed in the heart of Perth’s CBD, Yagan Square. If you are in the city, be sure to check out the amazing work showcased in this year’s exhibition. And when you are posting on socials, please tag us @thejunctionco_pilbara and use #thejuryartprize and #tjap2022 in your hashtags. thejunctionco.com.au
Walk for Women's Cancer
We are so proud of artist Sue Smorthwaite for taking part in this years Walk for Women's Cancer. Sue dedicated herself to doing a 35km fundraising walk to raise funds for the Perkins Institute in Perth which works on vital research into women's cancers. The Studio Gallery assisted Sue with raising funds by facilitating the sales of her Charity Chickens, with 100% of the proceeds going towards the institute, raising an astonishing $2,826 towards the total of $1,121,266 at last count. Artist Statement - Many of us have family and friends that have been affected by cancer. I was walking in memory of my dear friend Lee who passed away last month from breast cancer. I had a wonderful day on Saturday, the route started at UWA, went through the famous King's Park, downtown and all along the Perth shoreline, eventually ending back up at the University via the WACA stadium, Optus stadium, Burswood and many leafy suburbs. Perth is a very attractive city! The support and encouragement from all the Perkins staff, the volunteers and everyone I met along the route topped off with beautiful walking weather, and with Lee spurring me on, I was inspired to take the plunge and do the extra distance and complete the 42km walk! If you are interested in finding out more about the research that they are doing at the Perkinds Institute, please visit their site at perkins.org.au
Finalist - The Lethbridge Gallery 20000 Small scale Art Awards 2022
Congratulations go out to Marjan Bakhtiarikish who has been chosen as a finalist in this year's Lethbridge 20000 small scale art award for her painting "Tempest". Artist Statement: " In this piece I was inspired by Leonardo's "Macchia" (stain method) in which the painter tries to find a unified composition within what looks like a chaotic abstract scene. The "Tempest" started by many abstract brushworks in various thickness and colour, from which using only my imagination and memory, I tried to create an image evocative of Old Master paintings"
Finalist - Omnia Art Prize 2022
The Omnia Art Prize opens tomorrow night, and runs from 28-30 May, at St Kevin’s College, Toorak. There will be over 200 contemporary artworks on show and for sale at the College, with the proceeds being used directly towards the charitable work of the St Kevin’s College Foundation. A big congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist in this years prize. "Motherland explores the nurturing role of women and my own existence as a mother. Reflecting on my own mother I ask ‘where do you end and I begin?’ The nurturing burgeons out past the physicalness, beyond ours and our own, cultivating nourishment, tendering other sentient creatures and creation." - Lori Pensini
Finalist - The Jury Prize 2022
Artist Lori Pensini has been selected as a finalist in the Jury Art Prize this year for her painting, 'Bush Coat' There were over 120 West Australian artist entries, of which 50 were selected as finalist. "Bush coat showcases West Australian flora biodiversity, its warming fullness set against a bared off landscape engages the viewer to consider their own engagement with the landscape." -- Lori Pensini The jury prize opens this Saturday 21st May- 4 august, The Junction Co. and Courthouse Gallery+Studio, Port Hedland. We are very proud of Lori and encourage all to go to the below website and vote for your favourites. www.thejunctionco.com.au
Finalist - The Salon des Refusés - Archibald Prize Selections 2022
Congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a Finalist in The Salon Des Refuse 2022. Artist statement: The bogong moth portrait is a response to our impact on the state of our natural systems and emphasises the acute ecological disequilibrium brought about by our environmental mismanagement. An over-cleared landscape backdrops the plight of the moth and other species dependent on its continuance. They cling to my solitary form like a moth to a flame, the very thing that threatens existence is their only salvation and dually asks the viewer to consider their own role in environmental regeneration. The Salon des Refusés is the S.H. Ervin Gallery’s ‘alternative’ selection from works entered into the annual Archibald and Wynne Prizes. The Salon des Refusés was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992 in response to the large number of works entered into the Archibald Prize which were not selected for display in the official exhibition. The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s most high profile and respected awards which attracts hundreds of entries each year and the S.H. Ervin Gallery’s ‘alternative’ selection has become a much anticipated feature of the Sydney scene. Each year our panel is invited to go behind the scenes of the judging process for the annual Archibald Prize for portraiture and Wynne Prize for landscape painting and figure sculpture at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to select an exhibition from the many hundreds of works entered in both prizes but not chosen for the official award exhibition. The Salon des Refusés exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery has established an excellent reputation that rivals the selections in the ‘official’ exhibition, with works selected for quality, diversity, humour and experimentation, and which examine contemporary art practices, different approaches to portraiture and responses to the landscape. The Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award is valued at $3000. https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/2022-salon-des-refuses-the-alternative-archibald-wynne-prize-selection/
Finalist - Gallipoli Art Prize 2022
Congratulations to Lori Pensini on being selected as a Finalist in the Gallipoli Art Prize this year for her painting, The White Feathers - Coward or Courage (Oil on linen in reclaimed French frame). Artist Statement - The divisiveness caused by the first world war went well beyond the front line. The able-bodied men left behind who did not volunteer for service were looked down upon as cowards and women were advised to ‘not grant your affections to stay at home men, but to save a warm place in your hearts for the boys fighting for the future honour and freedom’. The men were sent white feathers as a symbol of their cowardly, to scorn their failure to be real men. A number of feathers were sent to young men in my great grandparents’ shire of Woondanilling, a small wheat and sheep community in rural Western Australia, with the committee president saying ‘the Empire was better served by the growing of wheat than by the handling of rifles’. Many women endured years of hardship when left to tend the farmlands and feed their young families singlehandedly without hardy men. It would have taken a gallant measure of courage to choose land over country against the glamourised war propaganda campaigns of the times.
Finalist - South West Art Now (SWAN) 2022
Another of our artists, Kay Gibson has been selected as a finalist in the SWAN prize 2022 at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery. ARTIST STATEMENT Kay’s art practice combines her love of printmaking, drawing and painting along with her passion for working on and with paper. For nearly 5 decades the Margaret River region has been her home and her work often portrays the flora and fauna of the area. In this work Kay has used some of the plants that grow along the river to create soft ground etchings that have been printed onto rice paper. All the paper has been hand-coloured and torn to create the image. When viewing the landscape Kay says “I often wonder what it would have been like for the first people that lived in this place, the Wadandi People. Having intimate knowledge of the land was crucial to their everyday life and survival and ultimately sustained them for thousands of years. Today our lives are not as obviously or as directly dependent on the plants and animals that surround us but we must know their role in order to maintain healthy ecosystems. This artwork is a homage to this beautiful and vital river."
Finalist - The Alice Prize 2022
We would like to congratulate Lori Pensini for being nominated as a Finalist in The Alice Prize 2022 for her artwork, Chatterbox Fortune Tellers - The Rare Bird Extinction series (pencil, ink on paper). artist statement: I have applied a melancholic macabre spin to a favourite childhood game of chatterbox fortune telling. Each fortune teller displays extinct or critically endanger bird species and each playing outcome arrives at the same point - extinction. The aim is to emphasise the acute fragility of our environment and the need for urgent action to stabilise the ecological disequilibrium brought about by our former and current land mismanagement. Paradoxically, the act of ‘playing the game’, points critically to the fact that this isn’t a game, it isn’t something we can gamble on anymore. "The Alice Prize is an acquisitive national contemporary art prize, welcoming entries from around Australia, in any medium or theme." https://www.aliceprize.com/
Finalist - Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize 2022
We would like to congratulate Jo Darvall for being selected as a finalist for The Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize for her print "Winged Realm - Summer 2021" This is a great honour for any Australian female artist and we are very proud of her. Australian art. Any medium. All women. The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is an annual prize and exhibition conducted by Ravenswood School for Girl. The aim of this art prize is to inspire, promote and connect generations of Australian women artists. The three prize categories are open to all mediums and themes as long as the artwork reflects the artists intentions for their practice. Professional Artist Prize - $35,000 (acquisitive) Emerging Artist Prize - $5,000 (acquisitive) Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize - $5,000 (acquisitive) Peoples’ Choice Award - $2,000
Finalist & Collection - SWAN Exhibition & Award 2022
The City of Bunbury has purchased the artwork of Lori Pensini, "We of the Wandoo" as part of their permanent collection. This painting was submitted to the SWAN Exhibition and Awards 2022, and not only has it been purchased, it is also a Finalist in the SWAN Prize 2022. Congratulations to Lori for being chosen for this honour. The Artists statement: We of the Wandoo is an embodied response to Lori Pensini’s yarnings with her friend Gloria. Gloria is a Karriyarra, Ngarluma Yindjibarndi and Yawuru woman on her father’s side and Yuet Ngaju Noongar on her mother’s. She is a healer from both lines. They first met as artists sharing knowledge about creativity. Conversations about form and mark-making soon gave way to sharing stories about their shaping as women, from the hands of past generations, seeing each other from within and beyond their skins. Gloria speaks of a ‘oneness’; each of us individual threads of a fabric spun to form a quilt of life. The fabric I am weaving with Gloria is one of shared knowledge, healing and nurturing. I wanted to portray this kinship as gentle strength; two women supporting each other’s vitality, poised in front of wandoo blossom. The wandoo (white gum) is legendary for its hardiness and tolerance to drought and salinity. Its leaves have remedial medicinal properties. Here, it conveys the sincerity of our friendship and the healing and shared commitment to the future health of our environment.
Finalist - Len Fox Art Award 2022
Congratulations goes to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist in the Len Fox Art Award this year for her painting 'Mallee" The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. The award is funded through a bequest from Mona Fox, with $50,000 awarded to the winner. The official exhibition opening of the shortlisted artists and announcement of winners via video will be held on Saturday 12 March. The exhibition will be held at Castlemaine Art Museum, 14 Lyttleton St, Castlemaine, Victoria, from Saturday 12 March 2022 to 13 June 2022. Artist Statement - Cousin Eloise is portrayed as myself amongst the Mallee, the country of our forbearers and childhood. The Western Australian mallee is part of the oldest exposed landscapes on earth. In my art practise it symbolises ‘strength’ and introspectively painted here in a time of sobering self doubt around my creative expression and apprehension faced in determining a direction. The wattle birds reference relationships and portray past and present matriarchal women in my family, the nurturing of family culture. They accompany me forward, vigilant and constant as I seek to reconnect to inner strengths. https://www.castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/exhibitions/len-fox-painting-prize-2022
Finalist - Muswellbrook Art Prize 2022
Congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist in The Muswellbrook Art Prize 2022 for her painting titled, 'Motherland'. Of her artwork Lori said: "This is friend Aishling with baby Hugh. She is painted here as the archetypal mother, nesting within the fullness of eucalyptus rosea blooms and set against an interstellar space in a womanish expression of her vast, cosmic capacity to nurture. Her hands steadfast, press her infant to her womb in deep time mothering. She has no beginning nor does she end, there is nowhere to go and nothing to become. She everything to the every thing. Mother, motherhood, motherland." The Muswellbrook Art Prize is today one of the richest prizes for painting in regional Australia. Finalists vie for a total of $70,000 prize money across three prize categories: Painting ($50,000 acquisitive), Works on Paper ($10,000 acquisitive), and Ceramics ($10,000 acquisitive).
JOY - An Art Exhibition
Presented by The Montauk Lighting Co. in support of Starlight Children's Foundation, JOY is an art exhibition that features the work of 50 artists from across Australia. We are proud to say that two of our artists, SIMON HEMSLEY and ROB FORLANI will be exhibiting their artwork in the show. All proceeds from JOY will be donated to creating a program of art workshops for children at Perth Children's Hospital, run by Starlight in conjunction with The Lester Prize. credit: The Lester Prize
In Support of FAWNA
With the destruction of habitat due to the recent fires in our beautiful South forest, The Studio Gallery and artist Janey Emery donated a percentage from the sale of Janey's painting "Dappled Forest" to assist with their ongoing care of local wildlife. FAWNA plans to build WA's first Regional Wildlife Hospital and Research Centre. The funding of the ongoing costs of the hospital will be done through a co-located 300-hectare Open Plan Biodiversity Eco Tourism Project, which is planned for completion in two years. With so many of our wildlife in danger of predators, loss of habitat and other threats, local domestic and pet livestock Vets try their best to assist where they can, but lack of the wildlife training, supplies and equipment mean that they struggle to make a lasting impact. If you would like to donate to FAWNA please click on the image of the painting and it will take you to their website where you can just follow the prompts.
Finalist - York Botanice Art Prize 2021
We would like to congratulate Joanne Duffy for being selected as a finalist in the York Botanic Art Prize for her painting 'Whispered Sanctuaries'. Finalists are currently exhibited in York, Western Australia, at Gallery 152, till the 23 January 2022. "The York Botanic Art Prize, now in its second year, was conceived to celebrate this abundance of unique flora and highlight the importance of its conservation in the face of increasing threats." - http://gallery152.com.au/ybap/
Australian TV Series to go to the Moon!
We are delighted to announce that two of our artists, Paula Wiegmink and Herman Pekel will be among the artists who's episodes will be sent up to and kept on the Moon! Art TV show, Put Some Colour in Your Life, received the exciting news that all 22 seasons of their TV art documentaries will be included in the Lunar Codex or “the Museum on the Moon”, rocketed via the Astrobotic Griffin / NASA VIPER ROVER / SpaceX Falcon Heavy mission headed to the Lunar South Pole due to land in 2023. Graeme Stevenson OAM, CEO and founder of Put Some Colour in Your Life, was over the moon when payload co-ordinator and curator Dr. Samuel Peralta (physicist), confirmed that all of the nearly 300 artists who have been filmed over the past 12 years in 7 countries will be represented. Put Some Colour in Your Life TV show based in Murwillumbah, Northern NSW, Australia, films 24-minute TV art documentaries about artists in their studios and then distributes the show to TV networks in over fifty counties, as well as many online streaming services and Smart TV apps. "When I began this business back in 2009, my vision was to build a library of the minds of artists, preserving a digital record of creative spirit, culture, and techniques for future generations”, Graeme explained,” I had no idea that the library would be kept on the moon. It is just mind blowing!" "The Lunar Codex -- www.lunarcodex.com- is a project to preserve contemporary creative arts for future generations, a message-in-a-bottle to the future," explained Dr. Samuel Peralta, creator of the enterprise. "It is sending the work of 5000+ creative artists to the Moon in three lunar exhibits / time capsules to be launched via three separate missions to the Moon over 2021-2023." - Colour In Your Life and The Lunar Codex
Finalist - Portia Geach Memorial Award 2021
We are so proud of artist Lori Pensini for being selected as a Finalist for the Portia Geach Memorial Award this year for her painting titled, My language of flowers. artist statement: I paint figurative floriography using Australian botanicals to create a unique language of flowers. The botanicals are spiritual emblems, giving voice to the personality traits of my figures by creating a metamorphosis of both flora and person. This piece uses floriography, a unique language of flowers that embodies the whole of me, my language, the heart and soul of my shaping. The botanics chosen are a complex bouquet of spiritual symbols defining the coloured flections of my being and aid in expressing myself and life story. They personify all of the hands past and present, that tended the soil and seeds of vitality, nurturing the unfurling of the woman I am. Botanicals - banksia - menziesii/robur/attenuata/grandis, dryandra, sheoak: kangaroo paw, wandoo, wattle, sturt desert pea, grevillea, pituri bush, honey myrtle, swamp paperbark, fairy apron.
Semi Finalist - Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2021
Congratulations to artist Lori Pensini for being selected as a Semi-finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for this year with this hauntingly beautiful self-portrait. Of her entry the artist says, 'Woman with Flathead' is a self portrait illustrating the precarious balance of our mental wellbeing amidst the volatile economic, environmental and social equities of the modern world we navigate. I have used the yellow tail flat head fish, a nondescript brown bottom dweller as a metaphor to chronicle the floundering thoughts that threaten to overrun my normally buoyant self. The raised venomous barb of the fin alluding to the vulnerability of such deprecation.'
Winner - People's Choice Award at Plantagenet Art Prize 2021
We are so proud of our artist Marjan Bakhtiarikish on being chosen as the winner of the People's Choice Award at the Plantagnet Art Award this year for her paining "The White Veil". Much of the Shire of Plantagenet's Art collection is now on display in the Mount Barker Community Resource Centre, after being in storage due to the redevelopment of the library. It was founded in 1956 through a significant bequest of over 40 artworks from Sir Claude Hotchin. Over the years Hotchin continued to donate artworks. The last discernable gift being in 1972. The total number of works gifted to the Shire is 56. Other works were acquired by the shire on an ad-hoc basis until the establishment of the annual Shire of Plantagenet Art Acquisition in 1991. The Shire of Plantagenet collection contains many important works by renowned 20th century, Australian and Western Australian artists that make it one of the most significant local government art collections in Western Australia. The people of the Shire of Plantagenet are very fortunate to have such a fine art collection. It remains a testament to Claude Hotchin's vision in bringing such quality artworks to the people of regional Western Australia. cc. https://www.plantagenet.wa.gov.au/
First Prize - Kondinin Art Prize
Congratulations to Joanne Duffy for winning first prize at the Kondinin Art Show 2021 for her painting "On the winds (of Kambarang)". If visiting Kondinin, Karlgarin, Hyden, or Wave Rock during October, the Kondinin Art Show is a must visit. Held in October every year and worth $11,000 in prize money, the Kondinin Art Show attracts a very high calibre of artwork that is on display and pieces available for purchase during the five-day exhibition.
First Prize - York Art & Craft Awards 2021
A huge congratulations to artist, Joanne Duffy, for winning the first prize in the painting section of the awards for her painting,"Journey North". In 2021 the Act-Belong-Commit York Society Art & Craft Awards was held October 9th - 17th in the York Town Hall. The special (Optional theme for 2021 was 'Isolation' and this attracted a very large number of entries. The exhibition was opened by Ms Shelagh Magadza, ExecutiveDirector of the Chamber of Arts & Culture WA. Judges were Mr Paul Trinidad, Lecturer in Design at the University of Western Australia and Ms Shana James, Printmaker and teacher at Fremantle Arts Centre.
Highly Commended - Dalwallinu Arts Festival
Congratulations to Joanne Duffy for being awarded the Highly Commended Award for her artwork 'Nameless Country' at the 2021 Dalwallinu Arts Festival. The festival was held on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th September and marked the 25th biennial festival since the first one was held in 1973. The exhibition showcases the talent of Western Australian and interstate artists, with the opportunity to purchase throughout the entire exhibition.
Winner - The Kilgour Prize 2021
We are so proud of Lori Pensini for being chosen as the winner of the Kilgour Prize this year for her work 'Family'. JUDGES STATEMENT: 'There is a tension presented through this work - the portraits are haunting but also mesmerising' commented Newcastle Art Gallery Director Lauretta Morton. "it is not a divisive narrative, but one that embraces the individual stoires behind this family portrait. Artist Statement: These portraits are a continuum for myself and my art practice exploring the indigenous lineage to my ancestry. They are painted on family heirloom fine bone china English plates and are a tribute to the inter racial relationships of my colonial fore-bearers and the first people’s of the south west of Western Australia. Each plate is unique to itself, honouring individual endeavours and fortitude. Collectively they embody the sense of ‘family’, of intimate bonds forged and the endurance of fervent relationships that defied racial vilification of the times. The deliberation of painting on fine bone china english plates represents the fragility of our bonds and cultural identity, and delicately betrays the ruinous heavy hand of European colonisation both towards indigenous peoples and the Australian landscape.
Lori Pensini
Finalist - Clayton Utz Art Prize 2021We would like to extend our congratulations to our artist, Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Prize 2021 for her artwork - 'We of the Wandoo II' artist statement: The wandoo paintings are a continuum of Lori’s art practise telling her ancestral story through the language of flowers. Botanical blooms are used as totems, they embody the personality traits of the figures and aid in the narrative of connecting and reconnecting us to our landscape. Biologically the wandoo (white gum) is legendary for its hardiness and tolerance to drought and salinity. Here the blossom represents strength and resilience, it speaks of a blooming despite the hardship and adversity endured in early colonial Australia. Pointedly it also speaks to modern Australia and the need for cultural unity if we are to heal and steward community and landscape going forward.
Highly Commended - The Melbourne Teapot Exhibition 2021
Congratulations to Sue, was awarded The Highly Commended prize for the Non functional teapot in any medium. The judges were Lynda Worthington, editor of Embellish Magazine and esteemed potter Glenn England. Stonehouse Gallery in Warrandyte is pleased to present The Melbourne Teapot Exhibition 2021. This spectacular and popular Annual Teapot Exhibition features both functional and non functional sections in diverse creative disciplines. ? The 15th The Melbourne Teapot Exhibition gives artists and makers of diverse disciplines the opportunity to explore and interpret the teapot form within their individual field of expertise and materials. Because of recent lockdowns and COVID restrictions, there will be no opening unfortunately, but follow their social media pages for more on this unique exhibition!
Cossack Art Award 2021 - Overall Winner
Congratulations to Bronwen Newbury for being chosen as the best overall artwork winner at the Cossack Art Awards 2021 for her painting 'The Golden Hour' Judges comments: This fine painting left no room for doubt for our judges, it was a unanimous decision. This is an evocative landscape with subtle layers, deliberate mark making and it continues an Australian tradition of landscape painting. Esther McDowell-Kickett pointed out that “the bright line at the horizon feels like a cut, a slice through flesh. The line feels alive, like it contains a heartbeat.”
Cossack Art Award 2021 - Highly Commended
Artist Jacinda Bayne was awarded Highly Commended at this years Cossack Art Awards and we just want to congratulate her on this achievement. This painting has a luminescence that is truly magical.
Cossak Artist in Residency 2021
We are proud to announce that artist Rob Forlani has been as been selected as the Cossack Art Awards 2021 Artist in Residence. Rob will relocate to the historic townsite of Cossack for a four-week residency during which he will work from a studio space to develop a body of work inspired by his experience. He will also lead abstract painting workshops as part of the 2021 Public Program which we are sure will be a exciting experience for those who can attend.
Kilgour Prize 2021 - Finalist
Congratulations to Lori Pensini on being selected as a finalist in the Kilgour Prize this year for her work 'Family' The Kilgour Prize is held at Newcastle Art Gallery, NEWCASTLE NSW between 14 August - 31 October 2021 Artist Statement: These portraits are a continuum for myself and my art practice exploring the indigenous lineage to my ancestry. They are painted on family heirloom fine bone china English plates and are a tribute to the inter racial relationships of my colonial fore-bearers and the first people’s of the south west of Western Australia. Each plate is unique to itself, honouring individual endeavours and fortitude. Collectively they embody the sense of ‘family’, of intimate bonds forged and the endurance of fervent relationships that defied racial vilification of the times. The deliberation of painting on fine bone china english plates represents the fragility of our bonds and cultural identity, and delicately betrays the ruinous heavy hand of European colonisation both towards indigenous peoples and the Australian landscape.
Finalist - Claremont Art Award
We would like to congratulate Joanne Duffy for being selected as a finalist in the Claremont Art Award 2021 for her emotive painting 'Undercurrent' If you are in the area, go view her work at the Town of Claremont Art Award and Exhibition at the Council Administration Building from Saturday 21 August until Saturday 4 September between 9am and 5pm.
Finalist - Minnawarra Art Awards 2021
We would like to congratulate our artist, Paula Wiegmink, on being selected as a finalist in this years Minnawarra Art Awards, for not just one of her artworks but two! ‘Magpie Ridge’ A visit to North Western Australia revealed something I hadn't experienced before. The vast open spaces and strong colours of the earth and sky were the inspiration for ‘Magpie Ridge’. A place that once visited, magically lures you back. Approaching this painting with a sense of freedom I hoped to capture that fleeting moment which drew my breath away. Using texture paste added drama and defined the direction of this painting, while using acrylics as my chosen medium. The addition of the magpies helped to create a sense of space and time. ‘I can see Clearly Now’ Art is a powerful vehicle that can evoke thought, debate and sometimes controversy. Many artists show their support for wildlife and the environment through their work. I hope to draw attention to the endangered Carnaby Cockatoo which are now rapidly diminishing in numbers. My chosen medium for ‘I Can See Clearly now’ is oil on stretched canvas. The Minnawarra Art Awards showcases some of Western Australia’s best artists, a number of which are local to the Armadale district! This year saw an increased prize pool and more targeted art awards that ensured this professionally curated exhibition provided viewers with a powerful show of high calibre and diverse artworks.
Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award 2021
Congratulations to Lori Pensini and Marjan Bakhtiarikish who were selected as finalists in this years Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award.
Lori Pensini – Exhibition finalist
‘Banksia – The Light Within’ oil on linen 59 x 55 cm
Artist statement: I use botanicals as totems to define personality traits of my sitters. In this piece I have painted the banksia, ecologically known for its hardiness and ability to bloom under harsh conditions. The bloom crowns the portrait as a metaphor for her internal strength and resilience and characterises the girl's capacity to draw from these in times of uncertainty - attuning to her inner voice and resolve.
Marjan Bakhtiarikish – Online Finalist
‘The Oracle’ oil on panel 50 x 40 cm
Artists for Conservation 2021 Virtual Exhibition
Congratulations to our wonderful and caring artist, Paula Wiegmink. Paula's painting 'The View is Better from up Here' has been selected for the Artists For Conservation 2021 virtual exhibition.
The exhibition is held in Canada and it is Paula's eighth year in a row that her work has been selected and published in their annual companion book.
The exhibition had a record number of submissions and was overall highest scoring show in the show's 14-years history.
'The View is Better from up Here', acrylic on canvas 94 x 94 cm framed, is currently on show at the Studio Gallery and available for purchase.
The Jury Art Prize 2021
The Studio Gallery congratulates four Studio Artists who are selected as finalists in the curated Art Prize exhibition, The Jury Art Prize.
Kay Gibson, Lori Pensini, Paula Wiegmink and Marjan Bakhtiarikish will be among the 55 artists who work across regional and remote WA to showcase their work at The Junction Co. and Courthouse Gallery + Studio commencing Friday 11 June.
'Finalists were selected from across all regions, and included painting, photography, sculpture, digital and mixed media from both Aboriginal and non-indigenous artists.'
'The Prize will be judged by industry experts, artist Damien Shen, multidisciplinary artist and poet Jazz Money and acclaimed curator Sandra Murray.'
'There are four key prize categories, the Judge’s Prize, Kathy Donnelly Encouragement Prize, Jury Prize (people’s choice) and Patron Award supported by the Town of Port Hedland, with prize monies for the Jury Prize and Judge’s prize being equal value of $10,000 each.'
Kay Gibson - ARTIST STATEMENT
In the Balance
Animals, nature, emotion and connection. These are the things that drive my art. My work is
about the emotional life of animals and their place in the ecosystem. When I look at the
Australian ‘landscape’ I not only see its geological beauty but I also see the symbiotic
relationship with our unique wildlife. The dingo holds a significant place in the ecosystem.
When they don’t have their social structure disrupted by poison baiting, trapping and shooting only the apex female breeds, once a year at the most. These family groups have strictly defined ranges, and they kill or chase off other wild dogs or dingoes that intrude.
They also keep kangaroos down to very low numbers, which is a huge benefit in regards to pasture growth for graziers. The dingoes also limit feral pig, cat and fox numbers which in
turn benefit biodiversity conservation and soil condition.
Lori Pensini - ARTIST STATEMENT
The Burrup Moon
I sat out at Murujuga National park at the Burrup recently, some 20 years on from my first visit. The landscape reddened now, not only from the pindan dust but from the mourning tears of lost culture. The old ways are all but a whisper, thin threads against the hungry squalling winds of industry. Childhood legend speaks of our loved ones shining down on us from the moon, here I attribute this perspective detailing a waning moon with aboriginal woman spirit crying from the ruination of her peoples, landscape and lore.
Paula Wiegmink - ARTIST STATEMENT
Magpie Manoeuvres
Always surprised how smaller birds manage to not only attack but to successfully fend off larger
birds of prey was the inspiration for 'Magpie Manoeuvres.'
The behaviour of 'mobbing' is a term used when smaller birds fend off larger birds protecting their
nests and environment. Speed enables these birds to successfully fend off hostile predators. They
usually attack the larger birds from behind or above to avoid the larger birds' talons. This only goes
to show that being small is not necessarily a limitation.
Magpies are notorious for swooping on humans, no doubt an effective deterrent in protecting their
young, not unlike human behaviour.
The wonderful wheatbelt landscape of Western Australia and moody sky provided the perfect
backdrop for 'Magpie Manoeuvres'.
I chose to paint in acrylic using a multi layering method on canvas in a realistic style.
The artwork depicts an Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen) pursuing a whistling kite (Haliastur
sphenurus). Both species can be frequently spotted throughout Western Australia.
Marjan Bakhtiarikish - ARTIST STATEMENT
Tomorrow
This painting came about as part of a series of paintings resulting from my ongoing
fascination with Rembrandt’s luscious late painting technique and my admiration for the
“timeless” portraits of Old Masters. The timeless portrait attempts to go beyond the
particular individual and address all humanity through an idealization that would embrace
archetypal human emotions. The image of the child emerges like an apparition out of the
mists of time and space. A sense of awareness and foreboding of a future unknown may
enshroud her as she stands in the evening of her childhood. Scrapings of palette knife,
pushing the bristles around, dragging, sculpting, building and building layers, at times
removing; all helped express her innocence, fragility and yet her emerging inner strength
and resolution. In this age of uncertainty, I believed this rough but subtle, ancient language
of painting could best evoke the mystical presence of future hope.
CAAWA Selective Exhibition 2021
Highly Commended AwardCongratulations to Judith Paisley for winning the Highly Commended Award at this years CAAWA Selective Exhibition for her work 'Little Urchin', Medium - Naked Raku Sulpture. "My introduction to pottery was late in life. I thoroughly enjoy throwing on the wheel however after an inspiring workshop with raku artist Britta Stolle-Jacob I learned to appreciate the unlimited potential of hand building and became captivated by raku firing, a significant turning point for me. I have since developed a strong passion for the raw and rustic nature of ALTERNATIVE firings. I am driven by fine powerful simplicity of form being the ultimate canvas to showcase the dramatic permeations derived by alternative firings. I love the close interaction with nature and the elements; the fact the artist has so much physical input and influence throughout most of the process.I like that there are no set rules as such, with plenty of scope for experimentation and room to put your own stamp on varying outcomes. With alternative firing, you quickly learn you are not in control, but part of the process.Learning not to be too precious about your pieces allows you the freedom to experiment, learn and grow." - Judith Paisley Established in 1993, the Ceramic Arts Association of WA (CAAWA) is a not for profit organisation run by members supporting the ceramics community in Western Australia. We aim to connect and promote all aspects of hand made pottery and ceramic sculpture. The Selective Exhibition was held at Earlyworks Gallery, 330 South Terrace, 5th Fremantle between 23 April - 2 May 2021. Quoted from https://www.ceramicartswa.asn.au/judith-paisley
Finalist - The Minnawarra Art Prize 2021
Lori Pensini has been selected as a finalist in the Minnawarra Art Prize 2021. The Minnawarra Art Awards is the centrepiece of the Armadale Arts Festival and offers an exciting public program ensuring that it’s not just the arts lovers that are able to revel in this creative visual feast! 1-16 May 2021 Lori Pensini - 'This painting is my ancestral story, it speaks of the co joining of cultures and the bonds created in the shared keeping of landscape. The women are wearing blossom dresses of the wandoo eucalyptus tree, a totem for the strength and resilience the kinship of married cultures had to endure against the social and political pressures of the times - biologically the wandoo is legendary for its hardness and tolerance to drought and salinity. The figures are symbolically stepping out of the darkness and walking towards the light in a show of unity.'
Finalist - Gallipoli Art Prize 2021
Congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist in the Gallipoli Art Prize this year. Lori Pensini - 'War mobilised women. With the Australian economy hamstrung from the loss of its workforce and diversion of funds to the military to fight the war, woman played a vital role in homeland production on both home front and the front line. They invested invaluable emotional and physical labour caring for troops and sending comforts to the war front through charitable work and fundraising: baking, writing letters, and the knitting of clothing & camouflage nets. This painting tells the story of Fay Howe, 15, daughter of the Breaksea Island lighthouse keeper, King George Sound, Albany Western Australia. Although her mother died before she could teach her to knit properly, she heeded the Country Women’s Association call to duty, and knitted socks with her CWA’s war relief wool donations.'
Britt Mikkelsen
Winner - The Mandorla Art Award 2021We are proud to announce that Britt Mikkelsen has been selected as the winner of the Mandorla Art Award 2021 for her work titled '8200 Souls'. Artist Statement “The draped figure in this artwork is pierced with 8200 holes with each individual hole representing every person who sleeps rough in Australia each night. Confronted with homelessness almost every day, the challenge for us all is to see the humanity behind the problem. It is easy to walk by and to ignore the person beneath the blanket, and as such the homeless have become invisible. But under every blanket, and every cardboard box, is a shining soul with a story not unlike our own. This unsettling figure represents the homeless crisis, but the work is also a self-portrait of humility. It asks us to be less judgmental, empathise with others and to love everyone regardless of their situation.” The Mandorla Art Award for contemporary religious art is Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize, held every two years in Perth, WA and attracting some of the country’s finest artists since its 1985 inception. Mandorla (MAN-dor-la) is an Italian word meaning almond. It refers to an almond-shaped halo or aura that we find around the images of Jesus or Mary in Christian art and particularly in icons. It represents the light emanating from a divine being, or one very close to a divine being. https://mandorlaart.com/
Marjan Bakhtiarikish
Finalist - The SBS Portrait Prize 2021Congratulations to Marjan Bakhtiarikish for being nominated as a finalist in The SBS Portrait Prize 2021 for her amazing self-portrait. The Southern Buoy Studio Portrait Prize is an annual art prize open to all emerging and established Artists across Australia. The SBS Portrait Prize celebrates the tradition of portraiture painting in a contemporary context that welcomes appreciation, open interpretation and further understanding of the Arts within our community. This exhibition is held at our beautiful gallery space on the stunning Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
Lori Pensini
Finalist - The Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize 2021Lori Pensini has been selected as a finalist in the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize 2021 for her work 'Whitening' Artist statement: My pioneering great grandfather held land near the Marribank aboriginal mission, (Katanning WA) were he abetted the hiding of local noongnar tribes from the authorities removing indigenous children from their families. These drawings reference the severance of the mother and child bond as a result of Australia’s assimilation ‘whitening’ policy. The base pencil drawings of mother and child have been over layed with mother of pearl acrylic stipples blurring the images in a deliberation of ‘whitening’ and fading to represent the loss and fragmentation of culture. "The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is a acquisitive art award among the most significant of its kind in the country. Named in honour of respected painter, printmaker and draughtswoman, Miss Adelaide Elizabeth Perry (1891-1973) who taught Visual Arts at PLC Sydney from 1930 to 1962, the Prize attracts submissions from around the country. Works by Adelaide Perry are held in many state collections, notably the Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Victoria, National Portrait Gallery and the Queensland Art Gallery. The Adelaide Perry Gallery was opened in her honour in June, 2001." https://www.plc.nsw.edu.au/
Sheila Benford
Winner - Any Media Category 2021 at The Freedom Art ExhibitionWe would like to congratulate Sheila Benford for winning the Any Media category in the Freedom Art Exhibition 2021 at Koorling Art Centre for her work titled 'Reflections'. The exhibition was officially opened in the Fremantle Ports Exhibition Zone (Theatre 2) at Koorliny Arts Centre Kwinana by Deputy Premier, the Hon. Roger Cook MLA on January 29. It featured 57 artworks by 33 renowned artists who interpreted the theme 'Freedom' through a wide range of mediums from watercolour to multi-media. IMAGE: Chris Kershaw
Jo Darvall
Finalist - The York Botanical Art Prize 2020We are pleased to announce that artist Jo Darval has been selected as a finalist in the York Botanical Art Prize 2020 for her work titled 'Wandoo Forrest'. The exhibition runs from the 2 November 2020 - 24 January 2021. Hundreds of participants from across Australia send in their entries with a diverse exploration of the Prize's theme of botanic art in the expanded field.
Marjan Bakhtiarikish, Simon Hemsley, Paula Wiegmink, Laura Newbury, Sue Smorthwaite and Norm Wilson - selected for the Showcase of Skills, City of Busselton Art Award.
We are delighted to have six of our artists selected for the Showcase of Skills, City of Busselton Art Awards 2020.
Finalist - The City of Busselton Art Award 2020
Artist Jo Darvall has been selected as a finalist for The City of Busselton Art Award 2020 for her painting 'Wandoo Forrest'. The 13th annual City of Busselton Art Award is introducing a new format by choosing to extend the show into the entire ArtGeo Cultural Complex. The juried Art Award will be shown in the ArtGeo Gallery while an additional Showcase of Skills will be exhibited in the Old Courthouse. This extended show will enable artists and visitors to more fully appreciate the depth of talent from West Australian Artists. Traditionally the Art Award was shown in September. This year the Award will will be shown in December 2020 and January 2021.
Finalist - The City of Busselton Art Award 2020
We are proud to announce that our artist, Dorothy Davies, has been selected as a finalist in The City of Busselton Art Award for her painting 'Alchemy'. Alchemy is defined as the process of taking something ordinary and turning it into something extraordinary . These seemingly everyday objects become beautiful when placed in arrangement that pleases the eye. So too fruit or flowers have long been used in still life as a a metaphor for the transient nature of beauty and the passing of time.
Finalist - The City of Busselton Art Award 2020
We would like to congratulate Joanne Duffy for being selected as a finalist in The City of Busselton Art Awards 2020 with her painting 'Journey'. The City of Busselton Art Award is open to all artists residing in Western Australia working in any medium or subject. Through this annual award, the City of Busselton aims to build a collection of contemporary Western Australian art and promote ArtGeo Gallery as an exhibition venue.
Finalist - Hurford Harwood Portrait Prize 2020, NSW
The 2020 Hurford Harwood Portrait Prize is a biennial prize open to artists Australia wide and is now in its 7th year, having started as The Northern Rivers Portrait Prize. Congratulations to Marjan Bakhtiarikish for being selected as a finalist! Artist Statement: My approach in creating this portrait was to work from imagination, invention and memories of my years of studies of Old Master works in museums of Italy and Australia. My partner kindly sat for initial poses and studies to help set the mood. Also a mannequin, as was the practice in times past, was useful in constructing the costume. The painting was preceded by numerous drawings and head studies on this theme. The painting was informed by my admiration for the timeless portraits of Rembrandt: the “timeless” portrait attempts to go beyond the particular individual and address all humanity through an idealization that would embrace archetypal human emotions. The Wanderer represents the archetype of the “wise old man” for all of us, as we endure our personal and solitary spiritual journey through life in our struggle to transcend the existential crises of our personal lives in the face of uncertain, collective tragedies. Nonetheless, the mystical landscape and the Wanderer’s downcast eyes evoke a quiet sense of equanimity in the wisdom of a life lived to the fullest.
Finalist - Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award 2020, NSW
We are proud that our artist Marjan Bakhtiarikish was chosen as a finalist for this flagship art prize of the Grafton Redional Gallery. Out of 659 entries throughout Australia, only 56 were chosen as finalists. Artist statement: The Wanderer represents the archetype for all of us as we endure our personal and solitary journey through life, in our struggle to transcend the existential crises of our personal lives in the face of uncertain, collective tragedies. Nonetheless, the Wanderer’s downcast eyes evoke a quiet sense of equanimity in the wisdom of a life lived to the full. The Wanderer’s aging features and flowing beard, created by the brush loaded with charcoal, deliberate dabs with finger, the crisp accents of the charcoal point and the final glow from the highlights; all create the cogent pathos of the drawing.
Winner - Du Rietz Art Awards 2020, QLD
Congratulations to Marjan Bakhtiarikish on winning the 2D Award for her painting "Hope", oil on canvas. Artist Statement: “Hope” represents my ongoing fascination for Rembrandt’s later, luscious oil painting techniques. I have used these for “Hope” because they are richly evocative of the human condition, emotions and pathos. The very nature of creating the painting itself was a struggle for hope in the technical and spiritual sense of the word. Scrapings of palette knife, pushing the bristles around, dragging, sculpting, building and building layers, at times removing; all in a quest to find “Hope”. In this age of uncertainty, I believed this rough but subtle, ancient language of painting could best evoke the mystical presence of “Hope”.
Finalist - The Kilgour Prize 2020
Congratulations to Lori Pensini who has been selected as a FINALIST in the Kilgour Prize 2020.
artist statement: I fear we have lost sight of our planetary obligations in favour of incredulous economic growth and fortification. This painting calls to attention our role as custodians of the landscape, to retract, rethink and reconnect. The kingfisher, likened to the mouse and the lion fable, insistently pulls at the sleeve of the girl, imploring her to hearken the song of the land as it calls her back through its wanting plains and scoured hinterlands in need of nourishment. Georgia wears a dress of banksia blooms, metaphors for the women of her kin, of the founding hands, and the intimate generational bonds cultivated in the love of landscape. A cultivation that threatens to precariously unravel if we continue on as we are, blindsided.
Winner - The Jury Art Prize 2020
Congratulations to Lori Pensini who has been awarded joint Winner, along with Aboriginal Artist Debra Thomas in The Jury Art Prize 2020.
'Mother', oil on linen 120 x 100 cm
artist statement: This piece is a continuum of my rural women series personifying the role of women in the bush. The thread of her being, golden with adoration, is fashioned from the humility and integrity of the women that came before her, unconditional and unbounded it enswathes her family and embodies her community and landscape. She is vital to the health of everything, she is the everything, without her the day is that little bit longer, a little drier.
Lori Pensini - The Telegram
Highly Commended
Congratulations to Lori Pensini who has been awarded Highly commended for this years Gallipoli Art Prize 2020 for her emotive painting, 'The Telegram'.
Artist statement: The telegram. My grandmother unmasks the memory of waiting. She tells of the foreboding waiting for a telegram to arrive, the angst of not knowing and the dread to come upon knowing. This painting is a tribute to the rural women that fought the loneliness of war and the ever lingering threat of an uncertain future on the land without their loved ones..
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2020
Congratulations to Lori Pensini who has been selected as a finalist in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2020.
Artist Statement
Family. These sketches are a continuum for myself and my art practice around the exploration of the indigenous lineage to my ancestry. They examine the inter racial relationships of my colonial fore-bearers and the forging of Australia’s post European culture. They are semi stylised depictions of my family simulating the camera obscure (pinhole) method of photography of the 1800’s. I wanted to capture the fortitude commanded to withstand the political and social prejudices their relationship would of suffered at the time, and to consider also, these prejudices are still current and have direct bearing on the health of family units in todays society.
The Farmer's Wife - Finalist - Collie Art Prize 2020
Congratulations to Lori Pensini who has been selected as a finalist in this years Collie Art Prize 2020.
Collie Art Gallery’s $50,000 prize is one of regional Australia’s richest individual art prize, and forms part of the coal mining town’s push to diversify its economy into tourism and other industries.
Artist Statement
The farmer’s wife. She as no time to consider or muse her lot, the landscape grants little consolation, and her husband? perhaps, if he came in afore dark. Her days are long, & dogged, the needs of all things insistent. Fortitude belies her statue as she draws it and a touch of humour to hand, extending her being beyond the physical to embody her families, community and landscape. The strength of the bush relies upon her, necessitates, this woman-ness, this hope that endures the aridity of rural life.
BRAG South Western Times Art 2020
Biennial survey of South Western art and artists"The works on display in this South Western Times Art 2020 exhibition challenge us, they show us who we are and what we value, they remind us of where we have come from and where we are going. " - BRAG We would like to congratulate our artists - Sue Smorthwaite, Simon Hemsley and Paula Wiegmink on being selected to submit their works for this year's survey. Paula Wiegmink, "Magpie manoeuvres" Surprise at how smaller birds manage to not only attack but to successfully fend off larger birds of prey was the inspiration for Paula's artwork. The behaviour of 'mobbing' is a term used when smaller birds fend off larger birds protecting their nests and environment. Speed enables these birds to successfully fend off hostile predators. They usually attack the bigger bird from behind or above to avoid the larger bird's talons. This only goes to show that being small is not necessarily a limitation. Sue Smorthwaite, "Reef Knot" Using colour, form and texture, Sue has brought to life the natural state of our reefs, in order to highlight the rapid reef degradation and coral bleaching occurring in our oceans. These are reversible if we as individuals and a country dedicate our efforts towards it. The knot can be viewed as the tipping point in one direction, which can, by definition, be undone and the process be reversed. Simon Hemsley, "Under the Microscope" Melanoma is a major health problem for Australians due to our outdoor lifestyles and the depletion of the ozone layer exposing us to extreme UV exposure at times. Simon's submission aims to increase people's awareness of this. By looking at hisopatholoy specimens he was able to relate it to abstraction in the environment. Nature is continuously changing, from natural harmonious cycles to permanent reshaping, and Simon has found that skin cancer has a similarity as it can start as a small change of pigmentation but rapidly invades the local tissues - growing, eroding and ultimately engulfing. Then there is the visual similarity between nature on a grand scale when viewed from above , compared to the viewing of histological specimens under higher magnification, and it is striking. Simon hopes to remind and inspire viewers to life each day as it comes as tomorrow is uncertain for many of us.
The Studio Bistro
2019 Kleenheat GOLD PLATE AWARDSOn Monday 25th November, The Catering Institute (WA) President, Vicki Mayell and the committee announced the winners of the 2019 Gold Plate Awards at Crown Perth, sponsored by Kleenheat Gas. The annual event acknowledges the outstanding quality and service provided by restaurants in Western Australia. Over 500 guests, sponsors and participants enjoyed a night of quality food, wine and entertainment as the finalists and winners were acknowledged for their great efforts this year. The overall prize of the Premiers Award was awarded to The Studio Bistro, for not only best meeting the judging criteria but also by having attained the highest percentage score overall. The Studio Bistro also took out the Licensed Casual Dining – Regional Award for the second year in a row, along with the New Wave Dining Award. Owners of the Bistro for the past 5 years, Steve and Sandy Tippett are thrilled and very proud of their team and Head Chef Thales for winning these major awards. Over this time the menu has been re created and modernised into a true modern Australian bistro encompassing flavours and styles from around the world.
The Lester Prize 2019 - Tony Fini Foundation Artist Prize
(Selected by Artists peers)Same Prize. Different Face. The Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, one of the country’s richest prizes for portraiture has been renamed The Lester Prize in honour of the award’s leading patron, Richard Lester. Amongst this year's finalists, 15 were WA artists, 10 were from VIC, 9 from NSW, with the remaining 6 from QLD, TAS and the ACT. Subjects of the works range from self-portraits to people who have played a significant part in the artists' lives. A quarter of this year's finalists have been named as finalists in previous years of the competition. Congratulations to Lori Pensini for winning the Tony Fini Foundation Artist Prize for her painting, Banksia grandis—love begets love 2019. Artist Statement This is a love story – it is my family’s story. It tells of love lost, forbidden and endured; of discrimination, shame and division of which my family wasn’t immune. It is important for my person and myself as an artist to paint the courage, resilience and the sheer resolve of character my forbearers modelled. They empower me, their laudable threads woven intricately into the fabric of my being. They ground and grow my inner strength, and, in turn, give rise to fertile beds to nourish my children.
Ayad Alqaragholli
STREET ART SYMPOSIUM
Congratulations to Ayad Alqaragholli on being part of the Starfield COEX Mall Street Sculpture Symposium in Seoul, South Korea. Ayad is shown here standing proudly with his public art piece created from granite and the pomegranate of bronze. Street art, especially sculpture, is a wonderful interactive way to bring art directly to people in our every day spaces.
Laura Matthews FINALIST Paddington Art Prize
Congratulations to Laura Matthews for being selected as a finalist with her sensational piece Steel Etched in the prestigious Paddington Art Prize. We wish Laura every success. 'The Paddington Art Prize is a $30,000 National acquisitive prize, awarded annually for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape. Established in 2004 by Arts Patron, Marlene Antico OAM, this National prize takes its place among the country’s most lucrative and highly coveted painting prizes. The prize encourages the interpretation of the landscape as a significant contemporary genre, its long tradition in Australian painting as a key contributor to our national ethos, and is a positive initiative in private patronage of the arts in Australia.' Paddington Art Prize
Semi Finalist Doug Moran Prize for Portraiture
Congratulations again to Laura for being selected as a semi finalist with her piece Natural Habitat. We wish her the best of luck for when the finalists are announced on 16th October. 'Founded by Doug & Greta Moran and family in 1988, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (DMNPP) is an annual Australian portrait painting prize supporting Australian artists. The prize has encouraged both excellence and creativity in contemporary Australian portraiture by asking artists to interpret the look and personality of a chosen sitter, either unknown or well known. ' - Moran Art Foundation
Manning Art Prize 2019 - Naked and Nude
Congratulations to Laura Matthews who won in the Manning Art Prize 2019, Naked & Nude, with her painting 'Sea Creatures' at the Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW.
The ‘Naked & Nude Art Prize’ is the only art award of its kind in Australia and attracts entries from across Australia from artists at all stages of their careers and working in all mediums.
The theme ‘Naked & Nude’ is an evocative platform for creative inspiration, and artists delve into representations of the human form. With a history dating back to ancient times across many cultures, the exposed human figure is one the most enduring themes in the visual arts, and remains relevant to artists across all disciplines.
Announcing 'Sea Creatures' as the winner, the judge commented "this beautifully composed painting may be a landscape (or seascape) but it is one that pivots around the formation of the two female figures. Their connection to each other and to their beach setting is the true subject of the work.
"Despite the agitated surface texture of this painting; one that encapsulates the perpetual motion of the ocean setting, the work exudes a great sense of calm and intimacy. The figures here do indeed appear as ‘sea creatures’ as they are drawn into their environment, and lead us, as viewers, in with them."
The painting is ultimately successful due to the strong sense of the physicality of the figures and the human connection between them and their environment.
- Courtesy of the Midwest Council NSW
Mel Brigg
Mel's painting on a Book Cover -Mel Brigg was contacted by author Kalypso Nicolaidis after she saw his artwork. She felt that his painting would be the perfect cover for her latest book, Exodus Reckoning Sacrifice. We could not agree more!
This book has received great reviews such as this one from Richard Buxton, author of Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts; "Dazzling, tolerant, wise, pyrotechnic, thoroughly up-to-date, yet steeped in millennia-old story patterns, this book is a must-read for anyone tempted to believe that Brexit - or, for that matter, ancient mythology - is a simple matter. Like the Hebrew and Greek myths which she evokes, Professor Nicolaidis offers no easy solutions. This is a book which neither Remainers nor Leavers can afford to ignore."
2019 Kennedy Art Prize
Congratulations to Joanne Duffy who's painting, “Island Lament, Wadjemup” has been selected as the Founder’s Choice in the 2019 Kennedy Art Prize.
The Foundation’s Choice features as part of the exhibition and will showcase an exciting array of emerging and established Australian artistic talent.
'The Kennedy Prize is dedicated to the memory of Bob Kennedy’s late parents, British émigrés who met in Australia after both departing their homelands, with promise and uncertainty, to forge a future in an unfamiliar country.
His father gave service in World War I and later died of leukaemia, leaving behind a wife and seven children. Bob was raised solely by his mother, which instilled in him a profound appreciation for the opportunities yielded to him by his parents’ sacrifice and a commitment to enabling further opportunities for the wider Australian community.'
Cossack Art Award 2019
3 Studio Gallery artists exhibited in the Cossack Art Award 2019.
Simon Hemsley
Di Taylor
Jacinda Bayne
'From humble beginnings in Western Australia’s resources heartland, the Cossack Art Awards have grown in size and stature over the years to become the richest acquisitive art award in regional Australia.'
The award has been running for 27 years annually and attracts an extremely high calibre of participation from across the nation.
Featured images:
Jacinda Bayne - Viewpoint
Di Taylor- Quiet Echoes
The Lester Prize 2019
Congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist in The Lester Prize 2019, with her painting 'banksia grandis - love begets love'.
Originally known as The Blackswan, the prize is one of the country’s richest prizes for portraiture and has recently been renamed to The Lester Prize in honour of the award’s leading patron, Richard Lester.
'This is a love story, it is my family’s story. It tells of love lost, forbidden and endured.'
'I have painted my son Mitch. He embodies the tale of my pioneering Uncle Elijah and Aunty Mary who opposed racial vilification to legitimise their relationship at the time in Australia’s colonisation Indigenous people were classed as ‘flora and fauna’. The crowning banksia represents their connection to country and the synthesising of shared bonds beyond their skin and cultural differences.'
2019 Melbourne Teapot Exhibition
Congratulations to Sue Smorthwaite who has been awarded Excellence In Design - Non Functional with her sculpture Billy Tea at the 2019 Melbourne Teapot Exhibition.
The exhibtion has been running for 14 years and is held annually at the Stonehouse Gallery in Warrandyte, featuring both functional and non functional sections in diverse creative disciplines.
?The exhibition gives artists and makers of diverse disciplines the opportunity to explore and interpret the teapot form within their individual field of expertise and materials.
5 Studio Gallery Artists Selected for Perth Royal Art Prize 2019
Congratulations to Jennifer Sadler, Jo Darvall, Kay Gibson, Jacinda Bayne & Lori Pensini who have been selected as finalists in this years Perth Royal Art Prize.
The Perth Royal Art Prize was established by RASWA in 1974 and it has grown in artistic calibre every year. It is the only prize in WA dedicated to the theme of landscape. The prize showcases some of the best talent from WA artists only, both regional and metropolitan.
Featured images:
Kay Gibson - In the Balance
Jacinda Bayne - Pontoon
Jennifer Sadler - Walk to Bush Camp
KAY GIBSON ARTIST STATEMENT
'When I look at the Australian ‘landscape’ I not only see its geological beauty but I also see the symbiotic relationship with our unique wildlife. We know that birds and insects pollinate plants but less obvious is the role of some our smaller mammals. They are integral in creating a healthy topsoil and ensuring biodiversity. Since European settlement a number of these mammals have become extinct mainly due to feral cats. With efforts to restore and maintain ‘a balance’ research has been conducted showing that dingoes suppress feral cat numbers.'
Rottnest Foundation Art Exhibtion 2019
Rottnest Foundation Art Exhibtion 2019
5 Studio Gallery Artists participated in the inaugural exhibition; Norm Wilson, Jo Darvall, Lori Pensini, Joanne Duffy, Jacinda Bayne.
The exhibition was held at the prestigious Holmes à Court Gallery at no.10 Douglas Street, West Perth. The Exhibition was professionally curated by Sandra Murray, a highly regarded Art Curator who currently works with the Royal Agricultural Society of WA and Bankwest.
Jo Darvall - Finalist - Still: National Still Life Award 2019
Still life - Lost works - Jo Darvall Finalist - Still: National Still Life Award 2019
Still is a biennial, acquisitive award for artworks in the genre of still life, in all mediums. Still: National Still Life Award seeks to highlight the diversity and vitality of still life in Australian contemporary art practice, broadening the interpretation and meaning of this enduring genre.
Still life - Lost works is a part of a large series and exhibition that Jo created to retell the story of Australia's pre-war artist, Kathleen O’Connor.
Kilgour Art Prize 2019 - Finalist
Wadjemup by Lori Pensini Finalist - Kilgour Art Prize 2019
Lori has been selected as a finalist in the annual art prize for figurative and portrait painting administered annually by Newcastle Art Gallery.
Wadjemup - black jail, white playground. 1838-1902. The history of Wadjemup (Rottnest Island, WA) tells of some 3700 aboriginal boys and men ‘rounded up’, chained and walked from as far as the Goldfields, Western Desert, Pilbara and Kimberlys to be incarcerated on Rottnest island 19km from the mainland port of Fremantle. Lori Pensini 2019
Lori Pensini - Finalist - Portia Geach Memorial Award 2019
Stellar Violets by Lori Pensini Finalist - Portia Geach Memorial Award 2019
Congratulations to Lori Pensini who has been shortlisted for Australia's most prestigious art prize for portraiture by female artists.
Jo Darvall - Bunbury Biennale 2019 "Goomba Boya"
Artist Statement
It's a pleasure to be involved in the Biennale creating the work and visiting the site of the great rock Goomba Boya. If you travel down Sugar Loaf road in Yallingup Western Australia at the end of the road there is a huge rock. Its enchanting at times it looks like a wise owl Wardandi Cultural Custodian Isaac Web mentioned there is no cultural name for Sugar Loaf Rock but suggests we call it Goomba Boya. Sadly many stories have been lost due to colonisation. Accompanying this work is the stunning melancholy music "Salt" inspired by Goomba Boya the Composer is Rebecca Erin Smith ..Musicians: Madeleine Antoine (violin) and Setsu Masuda (piano). the artwork is on exhibition until 21st of July 2019 at Bunbury Regional Gallery in WA.
Jo Darvall
Lori Pensini - Finalist - Len Fox Art Prize 2019
'Flower - Dryandra' by Lori Pensini
FINALIST
Len Fox Art Prize
Exhibtion opens on 8 June - 1 September 2019
Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, Vic. judge: Geoffrey Smith, Chairman Sothebys' Australia
Lori is the only WA Artist to be selected as a finalist.
artist statement: The Dryandra banksia is endemic to the bushland of my place of birth. Known for their resilience, they bloom & bear seed from the poorest of soils in the most adverse conditions. The banksia in my art practise represents the women in our family, pioneering ilk that have also weathered life’s adversities and gone on to bear blooms of gentle greatness. My cousin Tyler represents myself. She wears the Dryandra bloom at her throat, symbolic of her heritage and the voice and stories of past generations of the women that have shaped her.
Britt Mikkelsen | Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe 2019
Di Taylor - Representation in New York
We are delighted to announce that Di Taylor now has representation with Agora Gallery in New York.
Di has been painting and exhibiting for over 45 years so this is a fabulous achievement and opportunity to break into the New York art world.
We wish Di the best of luck for her exhibition at Agora Gallery in 2019.
Another fantastic opportunity for Di and her artistic journey is the invitation to exhibit at the Florence Biennale in 2019. We wish Di every success.
Winner of the People's Choice Award - Kilgour Art Prize
We are so delighted for Lori Pensini who's painting 'pride & prejudice' has won the People's Choice Award - Kilgour Portrait Prize. Lori is the first West Australian artist to win this prize.
Bruny18 - Finalist - Lori Pensini
Congratulations to Lori Pensini who has been selected as a finalist in this years Bruny Island Art Prize.
'The Bruny’ is a unique national art prize, focused specifically on painting that explores concepts of identity and environment, including the relationship between people and the physical world.'
'In 2018, the specific theme of the prize is Art of Adaptation, which encompasses the way challenges such as climate adaptation are negotiated.'
On October 13 the judges will announce the winner of the prize.
Busselton Art Award - Finalist - Paula Wiegmink
Congratulations to our wonderful and truly dedicated artist, Paula Wiegmink for her painting 'Shake your Tail Feathers' which was selected as a finalist in this years Busselton Art Award.
Paula's painting has pride of place on the wall in this exhibition and looks wonderful!
Ayad Alqaragholli's recent trip to China
Ayad's recent trip to China saw the installation of his new sculpture in the Min Qin desert.
The large figurative copper sculpture was installed on sand, on the Silk Road.
We believe this is such a fantastic opportunity Ayad and his artwork.
The photograph below shows Ayad at the seminar where he presented the international Artists involved in the International Desert Sculpture exhibition, in Min Qin close to the Mongolia border.
Fresh WA Snapper on Special - Norm Wilson
Finalist - Perth Royal Art Prize 2018
Congratulations to our artist, Norm Wilson who's painting 'Fresh Wa Snapper on Special' was selected as a finalist in this years Perth Royal Art Prize.
Britt Mikkelsen - Emerging Artist - Helen Lempriere Scholarship
We are so proud of our artist Britt Mikkelsen who has received the Emerging Artist scholarship, one of three scholarships annually awarded from the Helen Lempriere Scholarships.
This is one of Australia’s most prestigious annual prizes for sculptors in Australia, designed to foster and promote contemporary Australian sculpture.
'The Scholarships are a realisation of a bequest made by the late Keith Wood to honour his wife, Helen Lempriere.
Helen was one of Australia’s leading female artists in the mid-20th century, attracting national and international acclaim for her painting, printmaking and sculpture. Serving as a fitting legacy for Helen Lempriere and her belief in supporting the arts, the Scholarships fulfil Keith’s aims of making a significant philanthropic contribution to the arts while commemorating Helen, a leading figure in the development of a unique Australian aesthetic. The Scholarships serve to advance artists’ careers through study or research and are held in partnership with Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi. Managed by Perpetual as a charitable trust operating in perpetuity, the Helen Lempriere Bequest has provided more than $1.5 million in funding support for Australian artists since the trust was established in 1996.
Each year in the lead up to Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi three Australian based sculptors receive significant support for their careers thanks to the Helen Lempriere Bequest. As stipulated by the Helen Lempriere Bequest tertiary level academics select the artists to receive the scholarships. To celebrate the 20th anniversary exhibition of Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Perpetual have announced an additional $30,000 Helen Lempriere Scholarship for Australian sculptors in 2016.'
The picture opposite will be the work that Britt will be creating, 'Lair pictured', which will be her first installation.
Kay Gibson - Finalist - Perth Royal Art Prize
'MERINO COUNTRY'
"Merino Country pays homage to the integral role that the merino wool industry has played in the Australian landscape for the past 200 years. The first Australian produced fleece sold in England in 1807 and by the late 19th century wool had become Australia’s major export. By the 1950’s it was said that Australia was riding on the sheep’s back. New breeds have been developed to cope with the hot dry semi-arid areas of Australia. Australia still dominates the fine wool market producing more than half of the world’s merino wool." Kay Gibson
Congratulations to our wonderful artist Kay Gibson as her painting 'Merino Country' was shortlisted from 271 entries to just 51 in this years Perth Royal Art Prize.
Di Taylor - Philanthropist and Artist
During Di Taylor's recent trip to New York Di undertook a live art demonstration and has also kindly donated two paintings which are to be auctioned in 2019.
Di proudly did this for the charity 'Ads-Up', an organisation founded by Australian expatriates living in NY to help in the resettlement of the Manus Island and Nauru Refugees in the US.
Di’s path into Philanthropy began in 2004 after a close family member obtained a severe head injury. Eternally grateful for the support received, Di has since been giving back to those charities and institutions and others.
Di’s journey started with Telethon, a 24-hour television fundraising event based in WA, supporting the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. Di soon realised that she could make a difference with her art after she raised $5,500 by donating a large painting. In 2007 Di started to work directly with the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. Soon after Di was engaged to work with TV personalities for Celebrity Art and then the Kylie Andrews Foundation, for over four years Di has helped to raise funds to build a house in Broome, WA as a respite facility for children with Leukemia.
Following the tragic loss of her best friend and fellow artist to cancer, Di became heavily involved with the Cancer Foundation of Australia and Breast Cancer Care WA. It was then that Di started painting her Angels. The angels have featured in various exhibitions that have raised funds for many of her philanthropic causes.
In 2010 Di was asked to represent Save The Children Australia within remote Indigenous communities in the North West of the State throughout the East Kimberley region. Over a five year period Di ran a number of art workshops that inspired children in these remote schools. Her first workshops in Kununurra were particularly challenging, ensuring children had a safe place to go both day and night.
Di was made Ambassador for Save the Children, until she resigned in 2016.
In 2017 Di was asked to be the inaugural artist in residence for the North Midlands Project, based in the wheat belt country of WA. Di created a number of paintings as well as running community based art workshops. This was part of the interactive event designed to promote mental health awareness, wellness and engagement within the communities. Launching the Geraldton Project in 2018, the collection is called “10863 Bush Ranger” and is now touring Australia.
Di was asked to become a Director on the board of Artrinsic Inc. to help establish the first portrait prize in WA, the now prestigious Black Swan Portraiture Prize. Di’s aim was to help other artists to be seen in a field of excellence in their own state. Di’s longstanding position on the board compromised her own entry into the prize. Di resigned from the board in 2017, following the passing away of her father.
Di’s ongoing philanthropic work includes recognition as “Guest Artist” for the Rafikki Surgical Mission to Tanzania in East Africa as well as local foundations and charities such as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Starlight, Bali Children Foundation and Homeless Connect.
Di Taylor - Cossack Art Award 2018
Congratulations to our wonderful artist Di Taylor as her painting 'At the Millstream' was shortlisted for this years Cossack Art Award.
Jo Darvall a finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize 2018
A huge and well deserved congratulations to our incredibly talented artist Jo Darvall who was selected as a finalist in this years John Leslie Art Prize.
The John Leslie Art Prize is open to all artists living and working in Australia for landscape paintings that have been completed since 1 July 2016.
Inaugurated in 2000, the Prize is named after John Leslie OBE (1919—2016), Patron of the Gippsland Art Gallery.
The continuation of the Prize is made possible by the generous ongoing support of the John Leslie Foundation.
Prizes include the $20,000 acquisitive prize as well as a $1,000 non-acquisitive prize for the ‘Best Gippsland Work’.
Finalist - Lethbridge 10000 Art Award - Lori Pensini
Fantastic news again for Lori Pensini as her heart warming painting, 'House Girl, is accepted as a finalist into this years Lethbridge 10000 Art Award.
'My family were early settlers to the wheatbelt, WA and formed multiracial relationships with the indigenous noongar tribes. This painting references the interlacing of the colonial British & noongar cultures, the faded landscape lines in the background reflecting the loss of cultural identity.'
Lori Pensini - Finalist - Kilgour Portrait Prize
Congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist for this years Kilgour Portrait Prize with her beautiful painting 'Pride & Prejudice'.
'Inspired by the recent discovery of the indigenous line of our family. My 4th great grandfather migrated from England in the 1830’s where upon he gained prominence as a grazier in the South West of Western Australia. He worked closely with the local nooongar tribes realising the value of their bush knowledge and natural ability with livestock, and went on in time to create a conservation park to secure native food sources for them as well as sanctuary from local authorities. Two of his sons married noongar women with one, Mary, bearing 12 children.
Our family over time, was not immune to the social & political prejudices of the colonial era and began to see aboriginal liaisons as a shameful threatening thing, and all acknowledgement of noongar ties were suppressed. We sadly lost contact and knowledge for many generations.
This painting is of my cousins Tyler and Georgia set in Yangerdin noongar country of our pioneering home. They sit as one, painted in the same cloth - the folds and stripes continuous to represent the bridging & rebuilding of cultures and acknowledgement of shared blood.'
Dorothy Davies - Emerging Talent Award - Vasse Art Award 2018
Congratulations to our wonderful artist Dorothy Davies for winning Emerging Talent at Vasse Art Award 2018 with her painting 'Plum Bay'.
We are really excited to be exhibiting Dorothy's new collection of paintings at Studio Gallery 30 June - 15 July.
Lori Pensini - Collie Art Prize - Finalist
Our fingers are crossed for Lori as she is in the running for the regions richest art prize of $50,000.
Artist statement:
A retrospective exploration of my 3rd great aunt Mary Wartum (No tu man), Yandergin noongar and her marriage to English settler/grazier Elijah Quartermaine. The story is told she was to have been married to a tribal husband, but fled from her camp to avoid this. Elijah offered her protection, they fell in love and married. At a time when aboriginal peoples were classed as ‘livestock’ to legally acknowledge a marriage to an indigenous woman is to say in the least, monumental. Mary is portrayed at the very top, an aboriginal gold sun sets behind her, arms and hands splayed open with the suggestion of embracement. Subsequent generations of her offspring are wrapped in the folds of her skirt and vine that grows from her fingers, creating a river of life, of knowledge and things ‘of women’ not written but passed down through the soul & heart.
The winner is announced on 2nd March.
Paula Wiegmink: Artists for Conservation
Congratulations to our wonderful artist, Paula Wiegmink. Paula's painting, 'Mulga Branch' has been selected and published in the 'Artists for Conservation' 2017 edition.
Artists for Conservation is a Canadian based international non-profit. AFC represents 500 artists from 30 countries,in the nature/wildlife art genre, who are committed to conservation. Many of the world's most recognized names in the field are actively involved.
We have the book here to view at the gallery, so pop in and have a read.
Highly Commended - City of Busselton Art Award - Jo Darvall
Congratulations to our fabulous artist Jo Darvall for receiving 'Highly Commended' at the City of Busselton Art Award 2017.
'Barrett Street Weir - Waterways' highlights Jo's sensitive, yet confident application of colour, capturing the essence and tranquility of Barrett Weir in Margaret River.
Paula's African Adventure
Paula Wiegmink has just returned from a 4-week trip to Africa with a client.
The pair travelled 12,000 kms through South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. The trip was designed so Paula could gather reference for future paintings as well as continuing her research into the conservation of endangered species with special interest in the rhino, elephant, lion, painted dog and pangolin.
‘We travelled from one end of the Kruger National Park to the other, sighting the big5 on both of the first two days!
We then entered Botswana and drove from the Muldersdrift border to Maun, where we visited the Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta region. Our journey took us from central Botswana up to the Caprivi Strip into Namibia where we spent the next 9 days.
From Rundu situated on the border of Namibia and Angola we drove south, inland. On the way down we saw the Hoba meteorite that impacted earth 80,000 years ago. (The largest in the world weighing 60 tonnes). By accident we stumbled on 170 million year old dinosaur tracks on the Otjihaenamparero farmstead, 23 km east of the small town of Kalkfeld, before arriving at our destination in Outjo.
We spent the next day exploring the Etosha Pan and then crossed the continent to the Skeleton Coast on the west coast of Namibia where we visited the Cape Cross Seal Colony and saw the salt farms along the way.
From there we drove south to Swakopmund to see the Moonscape landscape, Walvis Bay for the pink flamingos, Sossusvlei for the red dunes and Gemsbok, Keetmanshoop for the Quiver trees and back up to the capital city, Windhoek.
From Windhoek in central Namibia we made our way through Gobabis and back into Botswana to Kasane where we crossed the border into Zimbabwe to see the Victoria Falls. From Kasane, Botswana we drove south to the Nata Bird Sanctuary situated in the Makgadikgadi Pans, in central Botswana.
The next leg of our journey took us to Cape Town to see the Tsitsikamma Forest, Cape Agulhas, Addo Elephant Park and finally after handing in our hired vehicle we flew from Port Elizabeth via Johannesburg back home to Australia.’
We are so excited to see what Paula will create after this fantastic opportunity.
Finalist - Paddington Art Prize - Laura Matthews
Laura continues to have a fantastic year with finalist selections, this time she has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Paddington Art Prize.
Congratulations to Laura, we are so excited for her solo show in January 2018.
'In the name of progress they spoilt my view'
Spring Exhibition 2017
The opening of our Spring Exhibition, 'The Essence of Art in the Bush', was a huge success.
We were so lucky to have Di Taylor, Kay Gibson and Danica Wichtermann all there on the day, allowing visitors to meet and chat with the artists.
Di drew in a crowd with her painting demo out on the covered decking area which was great to watch.
Thank you to all that came and made it a great day!
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2017 - Semi Finalist - Lori Pensini
For the past 29 years the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (DMNPP) has encouraged both excellence and creativity in contemporary Australian portraiture by asking artists to interpret the look and personality of a chosen sitter, either unknown or well known.
Founded by Doug & Greta Moran and family in 1988, the DMNPP is an annual Australian portrait prize supporting Australian artists and the wider arts community by holding the free annual Moran Prizes exhibition, now at Juniper Hall Paddington, displaying the top 30 works selected by nominated judges each year.
The annual first prize is of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), the Prize is an important part of Australia's Arts calendar. The Prize is acquisitive and the winning portrait immediately becomes the property of the Moran Arts Foundation, to be exhibited permanently as part of the Moran Arts Foundation Collection.
We are so proud and happy that Lori has been selected as a finalist, we have everything crossed for her.
11 Oct - Finalists announced
18 Oct - Winner Announced
19 Oct - Exhibition Opens at Juniper Hall
'Mirror Mirror on the Wall', oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm
Black Swan Portrait Prize 2017 - Lori Pensini - FINALIST
Lori is so unique with her work no wonder she was chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Black Swan Art Prize 2017.
This prize showcases and promotes Australia's top artists, it is an exhibition/competition not to be missed.
We are sending positive thoughts for Lori to win it this year.
‘Bloom’ ,oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
FINALIST - Joanne Duffy - Pro Hart Outback Art Prize 2017
The Pro Hart Outback Art Prize is an annual acquisitive competition. The prize showcases work in any media which reflects the spirit and diversity of the Australian Outback.
Congratulations to Jo for being selected and also for the sale of this wonderful painting at the event.
'Forge and Firmament', oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm.
Lethbridge 10 000 Art Award - Finalist - Lori Pensini
Congratulation to Lori for being selected as a finalist for this years Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scalle Art Award.
Now in its eighth year, this exciting art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit paintings, drawings, photographs and all 2D artworks up to 61cm (24 inches) in height or width.
'Wattle Blossom', oil on canvas, 59x59cm
Lori has created an exceptional painting which we are so delighted and privileged to now have it here in the Gallery.
Joanne Duffy - FINALIST - Perth Royal Show Landscape Art Prize 2017
Congratulations to our fantastic artist Joanne Duffy who was selected as a finalist for this years Perth Royal Landscape Art Prize.
The Perth Royal Art Show was established by RASWA in 1974 and it has grown in artistic calibre every year.
The 2017 IGA Perth Royal Show has announced the launch of its new art prize, the Perth Royal Art Prize with a substantial prize pool including a First Prize of $20,000. To create a unique approach for the Prize the theme of landscape has been introduced. The Prize is for WA artists only, both regional and metropolitan.
'Cautioned', oil on linen, 110 x 130 cm
New York, New York
Good luck to our artist Jacinda Bayne who is having her first exhibition - ‘Merging Landscape’ in New York, October 5th 2017.
Jacinda’s paintings are so magical, they can make one stop and contemplate for hours at a time.
We wish you the best of luck Jacinda.
Lori Pensini - Finalist in the Kilgour Prize 2017
Lori Pensini - Finalist in the Kilgour Prize 2017
Congratulations to our incredibly talented artist, Lori Pensini. Lori is one of 30 finalists that were shortlisted from over 350 applicants for the prestigious Kilgour Prize.
Our fingers and toes are crossed in the hope that she will win the People’s Choice Award.
To vote for Lori you can
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Lori’s Pensini - ‘Woman with Mullet’
Not One, But Two!
Not one, but two.
2017 Manning Art Prize finalist Laura Matthews wowed the judges with her painting “Stripped Bare”. This portrait of her beloved grandmother is breathtaking and powerful. It certainty triggered an emotion in us.
Furthermore, Laura is a finalist for the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2017 with her painting - ‘Coastline reimagined’.
We are so proud to continually represent Laura and showcase her superb talent.
2022 Perth Royal Show Art Prize for Landscape
Finalists: Joanne Duffy, Jo Darvall, Jacinda Bayne, Lori Pensini
FINALIST - Perth Royal Show Landscape Art Prize 2017
Congratulations to Lori Pensini for being selected as a finalist for the Perth Royal Show Landscape Art Prize 2017.
'One Tree Pool, Boolgeeda, Pilbara', oil on canvas, 130 x 130 cm.
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