Pine River Art Awards Peoples Choice
Burpengary artist, Amanda Russian, has taken out the 16th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards People‟s Choice prize winning $1000 for her evocative oil painting “Woorim Walk.”
Moreton Bay Regional Council Mayor, Cr Sutherland, said Ms Russian‟s beautifully executed painting of two young girls walking onto the beach had been a clear winner with its lightness and purity appealing to even the most inexpert eye.
“Voters described the piece as „three dimensional – almost photographic‟ and „lifelike, captures the essence of childhood‟ and „the work evokes those beautiful days on the beach when time stands still, you can imagine you are young and free again.‟ ”
ART AWARDS ROUNDUP FOR 08
The exhibition comprised more than 160 works and was on display at the Pine Rivers Regional Gallery and the adjacent Strathpine Community Centre until July 5.
New Farm artist Susan Buret has won the prestigious overall prize at the Pine Rivers Annual Art Awards. Ms Buret, who has artwork in public collections in Australia and the United States, previously won the 2006 Conrad Jupiter‟s Award and was a finalist in the Blake and Churchie awards. In June 2008, Ms Buret was the Artist in Residence at Bundanon in New South Wales.
This year‟s judge Michael Hawker, the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery, said the awards were an excellent example of the commitment of regional organisations in bringing art to the people of Queensland.
“Through the works in the exhibition we see artists who have pursued their own paths and produced individual visions of the world,” Mr Hawker said.
“These new and fresh ways of seeing the world are what we seek in art and art making.”
Cr Sutherland said Moreton Bay Regional Council had budgeted $20,000 to acquire artworks for its collection with artists sharing a prize pool of $8500.
The winners of the 2008 Pine Rivers Art Awards are as follows:
Category 1: Photography/2D digital art/computer art:
First prize went to Julie Brumwell (Kallangur)
for “Australia Day Cricket.”
Category 2: Two dimensional works
First prize went to Susan Buret (New Farm)
for “Her Arrival.”
Category 3: Three dimensional works
First prize went to Ann O‟Connor (Mt Glorious)
for “Maiden Voyage”
Category 4: Memories of Pine
First prize went to Ian Flinders (Kobble Creek)
for “Sundown on the Pine”
Category 5: People’s Choice
This $1000 prize went to Amanda Russian (Burpengary)
for “Woorim Walk”. (Pictured in the background above)
