Lorraine Pilgrim presents
To be officially opened by Tracy Cooper-Lavery – Director – Gold Coast City Gallery
This new, national, non-acquisitive prize is for a 2D work of art in any medium measuring 30 x 30 cm.
Judges are Susi Muddiman OAM, director of the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, and Amanda Penrose Hart, winner of the 2017 Gallipoli Art Prize.
Finalists’ Exhibition 24th November 2017 – 22 January 2018
Award Ceremony 25th November 2017 3pm
Images- Damien O’Mara
The William Jolly Bridge will be lit up each evening with artwork projections from the Migratory Birds and Suitcases watercolour works to celebrate the event the End of the Line Festival 1-5th November 2017
‘Deb Mostert’s ongoing interest in themes of collection, memory, and sacredness sees her hunting second hand stores, gift shops and antique centres in search for items that have a past and then presenting them in new stories and images. To celebrate the ‘End of the Line’ festival, Council presents Mostert’s artworks which feature vintage suitcases – a symbol of the travel and migration birds and people take to arrive in Australia.’
This Light Up is organised by Brisbane City Council and curated by CreativeMove.
Goldfinch Redeemed was given 3rd prize in the easel section of the THE 42ND RIO TINTO MARTIN HANSON MEMORIAL ART AWARDS 2017
at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery by Judge Pat Hoffie.
14th October – 7th December 2017
Visitors are encouraged to take part in this year’s QAL People’s Choice Awards* by voting at the kiosks available within the Gallery & Museum until 5pm, Thursday 30 November 2017.
Friday 20 October – Sunday 26 November 2017
| 30 Finalists announced Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize 2017 Official Opening and Winner announced: Saturday 21 October, 5pm Special guest: 2017 Finalist judge QUT Art Museum Curator, Kevin Wilson. |
I’m very happy to have a portrait I made of my friend Riswan selected for this prize.
In our neighbourhood there are many migrants and refugees living in the community. Some live in limbo on temporary protection visas, trying to make themselves at home in a country which may or may not accept them. Some have already wrested out a reluctant acceptance to stay and are settling in to a new way of life. Some, like my family, have been here a generation and feel more Australian than Dutch.
Riswan is a friend, we serve together at our local Salvation Army drop in centre where he has been faithfully helping out every week for the last 4 years. He is seeking asylum from Sri Lanka, wishing to live in freedom from persecution as a Tamil. He came to the studio to sit for me and we chatted about his journey and his hopes for the future. His application to stay has been rejected but he still appeals in the hope he may be accepted.
The Bee eater has become a symbol as I think about our changing attitudes to migrants. Australia has one species (Merops ornatus) which has a close relative in the Bee Eater (Merops philippinus) which migrates through India and Sri Lanka. They look more similar than different.
A collaboration with Melbourne artist and friend Robert Fenton has been selected for the newly relocated EMSLA still life prize.
OPENING NIGHT & WINNER ANNOUNCED Friday 10 November
at PROJECT CONTEMPORARY ARTSPACE Wollongong
EXHIBITION CLOSES Saturday 9 December 2017
https://www.emsla.com.au/finalists
Forma et situs agri – Marking our path watercolour ink resin on paper on board
This work has been curated into the Clayton Utz Art Award 2017. 40 works chosen from over 300 entries
http://claytonutzartaward.com.au/finalists.php?year=2017
I have had the opportunity to paint a large mural for the Redlands Council in conjunction with Creative Move and the Redland Art Gallery. ‘We visit every year’ draws attention to the stories of our migratory shore birds and the precarious nature of their habitat in our bay areas. It also references visitation, holidays and return visits to our beautiful bay areas.
Thanks to Creative Move for giving me this opportunity and for their unwavering support through out the process and to Redlands Council for having the vision for Public Art in their community.
It was a challenge to paint the mural in panels in my studio, then transport them and have them attached to a giant framework to instal on the side of the IGA building in Wellington Point Village. Many people helped make this happen and I am grateful for their support.
I have been privileged to be able to spend 9 days as artist in residence and experience the stunning beauty of Roebuck Bay in Broome and spend time watching and sketching the shore birds in this unique habitat. This material will help feed a body of work about migration and an exhibition late 2018 at the Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland. This residency was made possible with the help of an Arts Qld grant and the support of the Broome Bird Observatory.
an exhibition at the Queensland Museum – World Science Festival Brisbane 22nd – 26th March, 2017
Curated by Carrie McCarthy with much absorbing artwork by artists who work across science and art including: Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Selene Cochrane, Simone Eisler, Emma Lindsay, Sara Manser, Sharon McKenzie, Julie-Anne Milinski, Deb Mostert, Jeanette Stok, Geoff Thompson, Michelle Vine, Carolyn Veronica Watson.
