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Top 13 Artists Selected From City Art Awards Exhibition

Published Date: 31 May 2010, 12:00 AM

Thirteen Western Australian artists were announced as winners at the 33rd City of Melville Art Awards on Friday, 28 May.

Mayor Russell Aubrey said the results of the competition showcased a wide variety of styles, techniques and mediums.

“Once again the Art Awards competition was a very competitive field of 280 pieces of impressive artwork,” he said.

“The three judges: Tony Jones; Catherine Caczerw; and Jane King had a difficult task on their hands but they have carefully selected the worthy winners in 13 categories.

“The Art Awards have proven very popular since the event first commenced in 1978 and, since this time, it has grown into Melville’s biggest arts and culture event. This annual event presents artists with the opportunity to exhibit their work and gain feedback. The Art Awards also give the general public the chance to see a large selection of Western Australian art in one place.”

The City of Melville 2010 Art Award winners are:

Category	Artist	Title of work	Prize
Mixed media	Laura Williams	Progression	$1000
Oil	Warayute Bannatee	Kintail Road	$1000
Pastel	Jane Grierson	Urban Crawl	$1000
Photography	Steve Marshall	Concentricity	$1000
Sculpture	Michelle Murray	Nine Dimension	$1000
Textiles	Kate Weddon-Jones	Untitled	$1000
Water Colour	Marie Novak	Communion: Earth and Sky	$1000
Youth	Lana Stockton	The Rose	$1000
Work on Paper	Shelley Cowper	Isolation	$1000
Acrylic	Narelle Manser-Smith	Shifting Sands	$1000
Wireless Hill Award	Irene Poh	Banksia Menziesiis	$500
City of Melville Resident	Thelma Cluning	Byzantine Fades	$1500
Judges’ Choice	Narelle Manser-Smith	Shifting Sands	$1500

Art Award Advertising

Posted by William Harris at 01 June 2010, 01:06 PM

The exhibition was well presented except for some of the floodlights not working.I was disappointed with the lack of advertising and signs outside the venue.

response

Posted by CDO-Arts at 04 June 2010, 01:43 PM

Hello and thank you for attending this event. It is interesting to note that you haven't seen our advertising. This year we advertised the event in the following ways:
City of Melville website
Mosaic Magazine
Posters in all Melville libraries, community centres and Rec centres as well as significant mail outs to galleries & libraries in the metro area.
Melville Times Community Newspaper
What's on in the West
Sunday Arts (Sunday Times)
The Art Almanac
Street Banners along Canning Highway and
11 signs located on road reserves throughout the City.

Once again, we appreciate your feedback and thank you for supporting this event!

City Art Awards

Posted by Keryl Thomas at 04 June 2010, 01:43 PM

Lana Stockton's work is really an amazing painting.

Art Exhibition

Posted by Elizabeth MacColl at 08 June 2010, 03:49 PM

I wonder why the Wireless Hill Award was only $500 and not $1000!

Jane Grierson's painting had a title in the catalogue and a different title on the ticket near her painting.

There was an absence of advertising. I was viewing the exhibition alone this morning. I usually see signs and banners on Leach Highway but not this year.

Where is the City of Melville collection? As a ratepayer, helping to purchase the paintings, I expect them to be displayed in a public place.

general comments

Posted by Barb Lee at 09 June 2010, 11:22 AM

Re: the comments above - there were advertising boardings on Leach Hwy in all the regular spots as for past years - e.g. the lights at the RAF retirement village turn off to Bullcreek and at Booragoon Lake. It makes sense that the Wireless Hill award was of lesser value as it was the only award that could be won in addition to another category - in this case Irene Poh also won a highly commended in watercolour. I also got great pleasure in looking at Lana Stockton's painting - a breath of rich bold colour after the black, white and grey tones of the oil, pastel, textile, and works on paper winning entries(and the dark green and black of the winning watercolour). There seemed to me to be quite a few works of the Melville art collection on display in the upstairs foyer near the winning art works.

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