Poimena Art Award 2009 for mixed media works
If you missed the opening of the Poimena Art Award 2009 for mixed media works last week then you’ve got about a month to cruise through and check out the artwork at Poimena Gallery, Launceston. This year the $7000 biannual award was nabbed by Hobart artist Cath Robinson for her necklace crafted from punctuation marks. Congratulations Cath, awesome.
As one of the 40 jury picked finalists in this year’s award it was a bit disappointing that another engagement came up on the very same evening. The black and white digital photogaph I entered was of the anti-whaling vessel Steve Irwin when she returned to Hobart in our early Summer, scarred and battered from the controversial collision at sea. So I was up at dawn wandering around in the almost deserted wharf area with the trusty tripod and the Nikon, and the perfect moody sky added to that drama. You can check out the photograph online at my commercial photography and design website Steven Clark Studio; it’s called Waiting is not an option. A Planet without life is just a rock, ask any economist and is released in a limited edition of 10 at the size of 18″ x 12″ unframed. The unframed photograph is priced at AUD$240.
I guess its a case of entering again in 2011 and trying to make it to the exhibition opening. In the meantime, I’d just like to congratulate Cath again on a strong contemporary interpretation of brink. Its about the spaces in things…
