A big congratulations to artist Lori Pensini for winning the 3D Composite/Assemblage Categorie in the Stanthorpe Art Prize 2024, for her striking art sculpture titled 'Farm Yard' - 59 x 39 cm - Oil on Xanthorrhoea Heart Wood. The exhibition can be seen at Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery from 7 September - 10 November 2024.

Judges: Jessica Bridgfoot - Director, Bendigo Art Gallery; Michael Brennan - Director, Noosa Regional Gallery.

Judges Comments: "Cultures and histories collide in this work, reflecting the maker's own family story, but also more braodly that of indigeneity, colonisation and complex relatinships with our environment. Its materials and the appearances they assume are loaded with these histories and cultures, and provide a subtext for what is pictorially portrayed."

Artist Statement: This is my grandmother'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' - on the contrary it is the back bone in sustaining families, farms and communities.

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