Julie Harris from NSW was announced as the winner of the $50,000 Fleurieu Landscape Prize, at a Gala dinner held at Hardy’s Winery in McLaren Vale on Saturday night. The winning work, Pagodas at Newnes, was selected from a shortlist of 39 works taken from more than 1000 entries.
With a total prize pool of $90,000, The Fleurieu Art Prize is the world’s richest Landscape Art Prize, a prize of critical and financial significance, attracting Australia’s finest landscape artists and supported by internationally significant judges.
The 2011 judges, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Nick Mitzevich; internationally acclaimed artist Janet Laurence; and Chair of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council and artist Ted Snell said:
“In any prize there is one work that leaps out at you, one that grabs your attention in the midst of all the others. This year it was Julie Harris' work, not only because it speaks with such eloquence about the land, the air, the wind and the fragrance of flowers but also because it shows a highly sophisticated knowledge of the language of painting. She works with the traditional modes of representation to create a hybrid image of how we understand our physical environment.”
Laura Wills from South Australia won the $10,000 Fleurieu Vistas Prize for her work, Rapid Bay Road.
Gladdy Kemarre from Western Australia won the $10,000 Art of Food and Wine Prize for her work, Anwekety (Bush Plum).
Lynne Boyd from Victoria won the $10,000 Fleurieu Water Prize for her work Lilac Time, Port Phillip Bay.
Alice Blanch from South Australia received the won the $10,000 Fleurieu Youth Scholarship.
Elizabeth Raupach, Chair of the Fleurieu Art Prize board, said “We had over 1000 entries for the various categories of the art prize, and I believe that the standard of the hundred-plus finalists has never been better. I am thrilled that once again this region can host art lovers and visitors to enjoy art work of a national and international calibre, and our great wines, food and scenic views.”
The Fleurieu Art Prize is fittingly centred in McLaren Vale & the Fleurieu Peninsula, a region famous for its striking landscape and extraordinary geological formations, as well as being renowned for its fine food, appreciation of art and as a producer of high quality wine. The prize celebrates both the local environment, which has long been the home to and a source of inspiration for some of Australia’s most important landscape artists; and the local community, who continue to support and embrace the arts.
ALL EXHIBITIONS RUN UNTIL 5 DECEMBER 2011
Fleurieu Landscape Prize Exhibition • Hardy's Winery – Main Road, McLaren Vale
Fleurieu Water Prize Exhibition • Signal Point Gallery – Goolwa Wharf, Goolwa
Fleurieu Vista Prize Exhibition • D'Arenberg Winery – Osborn Road, McLaren Vale
The Art of Food and Wine Prize Exhibition • Chapel Hill Winery – Chapel Hill Road, McLaren Vale
Youth Scholarship Exhibition • Wirra Wirra Winery – McMurtrie Road, McLaren Vale
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