Recent News - Art Prizes
Colin Langridge, MFA Candidate
Winner of the Director's Prize, Sculpture by the Sea. The prize includes return air fares to Sydney, five days accommodation, $500 for materials, and automatic invitation to participate in the Sydney Sculpture by the Sea event in October. Further information about Colin Langridge's research can be found here. For larger image of "Device to Raise Doubt", please click on the image.
Colin Langridge - "Device to Raise Doubt"
Sarah Ryan, PhD Candidate
Winner of the Hobart City Art Prize. Valued at $7,500, Sarah is going to use the prize to travel to Italy where she has been invited to be part of a Design and Interactive Multimedia course that has been sponsored by Bennetton. Further information about Sarah Ryan's research can be found here.
David Martin, PhD candidate
Winner of the Moorilla Estate Winter Collection Memorial prize as part of the City of Hobart Art Prize. Valued at $1000, David will be using the prize to buy materials for the residency he has at the Eddystone Lighthouse later in the year. This is one of several Wilderness and Natural Environment residencies being sponsored by Arts Tasmania.
Tiffany Winterbottom, Honours candidate
Tiffany received a judge's commendation for her entry in the City of Hobart Art Prize.
Grants from Art Tasmania in their 2000-2001 Grant Round
This information is drawn from Arts Tasmania's Web Site: http://www.arts.tas.gov.au/punew22.htm
Four of the School's current postgraduates received residencies under Arts Tasmania's innovative Wilderness & Heritage Residencies Scheme. Julie Gough has recently presented her PhD examination submission in the Plimsoll Gallery; Maria McDermott has recently enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program; Anthony Curtis is part-way through a Master of Fine Art and Design course; and David Martin, formerly of Canberra, has just completed the first year of his PhD (Fine Arts) course. Ellie Ray, who is soon to present her PhD examination submission in photography, has received one of three international residencies and is off to Iceland in the middle of the year. Dr Jessica Ball, who was recently awarded her PhD in Fine Art is taking up a joint Arts Tasmania-University of Tasmania residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts, and is going to Paris in September for four months. And Michael Schlitz, who graduated with an MFA (Research) at the beginning of 2000, has been offered a residency in Nagasawa and will be working with a Japanese woodblock master.
WILDERNESS & HERITAGE RESIDENCIES
Julie Gough $5,000
Julie Gough will spend a two month residency at Eddystone Light developing her project Walking Homelands.
Maria MacDermott $5,000
Maria will develop her project Meditations on Feminine Identity and Nature during a two month residency at Lake St. Clair.
Anthony Curtis $5,000
Anthony will create new body of work, Coastal Light during his residency at Eddystone Light.
David Martin $2,940
David Martin will spend a two month residency at Eddystone Light.
Michael Schlitz $7,000
Michael will learn woodblock printing techniques from a Japanese master craftsman at Nagasawa Art Park, Japan. This residency is a collaborative project between Arts Tasmania and The Asialink Centre.
Eleanor Ray $7,000
Eleanor Ray will undertake a residency in Iceland to research and produce a photographic narrative, Forgetting Time.
Jessica Ball $7000
Jessica will spend four months at the University of Tasmania's studio at the renowned Cite Internationale des Arts. More information on the Cite can be found at the School of ArtŐs own website and @ http://myweb.worldnet.fr/~fst/CiteInternationaledesArts.html
News from the Australia Council
Brigita Ozolins, who is entering the second year of her PhD (Fine Art) research project has recently been notified that she has received one of four 2001-2002 three-month residencies at the Australia CouncilŐs London Studio.
Briony Rhodes, who is beginning the second year of her PhD (Fine Art) has recently been appointed to the Australia Council's Youth and the Arts Panel. This panel has an important advocacy role to play in the developing of the Australia Council's programs. More information of the Panel can be found @ http://www.ozco.gov.au/resources/youth/index.htm
Julie Gough has not only received an Arts Tasmania residency at Eddystone Lighthouse but has recently received news that she has been awarded an Australia Council residency at the renowned Greene Street Studio. She follows in the footsteps of a swag of Australian artists who, since the late 1970s, have had the opportunity to live and work in New York for periods of three months and more. She is taking up a residency early in 2002.
Also, Julie Gough has received a Commonwealth Scholarship to carry out research into the voyage of one of her forebears, Woretemoeteyerner, who sailed from the Bass Strait Islands to the Islands of Rodriguez and Mauritius in 1825. When Woretemoeteyerner returned to Tasmania in 1827 she was recorded as the Aboriginal Tasmanian who could 'speak a little French having been taken by a whaling vessel to the Isle of France.' (Robinson, G.A. Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers (of) George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 ed. N.J.B. Plomley, Tasmanian Historical Research Society, Hobart, 1966: 686)
Head of the School of Art, Lorraine Jenyns, is currently in Barcelona with her partner, Bob Jenyns, at the Australia Council residency. She returns to the School in May.
Briony Rhodes has been awarded the title of - Member of The Australia Council Youth Arts Panel