24 August – 11 September 2011
CLASSIFY ME
2011 Uon Services Annual Student art prize
Curated by Amy Hill
Sponsored by UoN Services Ltd, FordComm and Newcastle Sign-A-Rama.
Exhibition opened and prizes awarded by artists and judges Cash Brown, Alicia King and Jason Wing at 6.30 pm on Thursday 25 August Click here for opening night pix
CLASSIFY ME calls for students to respond to the notion of classifying art. Whether they are traditional landscape painters or new media installation artists, we want to know if the artists think art should be classified and how they classify themselves or their artwork.
This year the total prize money is at $3350. The major prize is a travelling scholarship of $1500 plus three Highly Commended Awards of $500 each and an Impetus Award of $350.
The Judges
This year artists Cash Brown, Alicia King and Jason Wing have been asked to judge Classify Me.
Cash is a contemporary artist and curator based in Sydney; she has been a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and in 2006 won the Sydney Olympic Park Authority residency.
Alicia is a Tasmanian interdisciplinary artist who combines science and art. In 2009 she was a recipient of a Tasmanian Artists Residency Grant, and she recently returned from residencies in Paris and the Galapagos Islands.
Jason is also a Sydney based contemporary artist. In 2009 he was a finalist for both the Bank of Scotland Emerging Art Prize and the NSW Parliament Indigenous Art Prize.
The Artists:
Abbey Cecil Susan Cairns Mary Van Gils MS Paintings Jordan Fardell Zyanya Walker
Ellen Kozakiewicz Jean-Louis Kocher William Maguire David Graham Bec Castelijn
Blake Williams Maree Hendry Nicole Lemaitre Alex Chapman Sean Boyd Emily Coutts
Brooke Hazelgrove David Torres-Smith Jessica Clark Melanie Smith Bliss Cavanagh
Nathan Keogh Sarah Jones Mark Mason Elaine Bull Elizabeth Armstrong Laura Seabrook
Konrad Hense, Stephanie Pease and Sugar Tits Mitchell Joy Kylie Moore Barbie Procobis
Jennifer Muldoon Karen Hicks Tabbatha Gallen Teresa Purnell Rose Turner
Zrinka Podravac Zoe Allen Sarah Garrad Natalie Engdahl Kristin Charlie Torsdotter
Jocelyn Kelly Natalie Proudlock Doug Allen Sally-ann Constable Shan Turner-Carroll
Some of the 55 entered works:
And the winners were:
Overall Prize :
Susan Cairns
CLASSIFYME2.0
Augmented reality intervention
HIGHLY COMMENDED:
Konrad Hense, Stephanie Pease and sugar tits
Untitled
Photographic prints
Teresa Purnell
Too Much is Barely Enough
Polymer clay, wood, foil
COMMENDED:
David Torres-Smith
The Goring in Madrid (Oral Fixation)
Photographic print
IMPETUS AWARD:
Sarah Jones
The Last Coffee
Collograph and mixed media
THE WINNERS...
