41st Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards Winners Announced

41st Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards Winners Announced

A crowd of hundreds arrived to the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum for the official launch and Awards presentation of 'The 41^st Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards 2016' on Saturday evening, 15 October.

Guest speakers included Aunty Juliri Ingra, Gooreng Gooreng Elder, Cr Matt Burnett, Mayor of Gladstone Region, Jo Duke, Curator, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, and Peter Harrington, Acting General Manager, Rio Tinto Yarwun, who officially opened the exhibition.

$38,000 of prizes was awarded on the night as the winners were announced by this year's judge, Jason Smith, Director, Geelong Gallery.

WINNERS LIST:

OVERALL

The Overall Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award: $15,000

               > Blair Coffey, Conquest

The John Anderson Memorial Acquisitive Award, Sponsored by Anderson's Auto City: $5,000

               > Adrienne Williams, Storms Along the Sierra Vista Trail

The Pieter Groen-int-woud Memorial Young Emerging Artist Award, Sponsored by Multitrade: $1,500

              > Ellie Tregaskis, Death, what's next?

The Local Murri Artist Award, Sponsored by Elizabeth and Leo Zussino: $1,000

              > Sharilee Marr, Mining Matters

The Gail Sellers Local Artist Award: $1,000               

              > Marci Russo, Pa Trilogy

The Installers Choice Award, Sponsored by Laureen Tkacik and GRAGM: $500         

              > Andreia Pereira, This house is full of madness

SECTION 1: EASEL PAINTINGS

The Gladstone Area Water Board Award: $2,000

               > Jo Williams, Still Life with Chairs

The Christian Thomsen Award: $1,000

               > Carmen Beezley-Drake, The Wattle Tree

The Gladstone Picture Framing (Open Order) Award: $500

               > Collin Hatter, Upside Down

Section 1 Highly Commended

               > Robin Zimmerlie, The Way I Feel 

SECTION 2: WORKS ON PAPER

The Australia Pacific LNG Award: $2,000

               > Ping Carlyon, Good Morning Gladstone

The Bush Family Award: $1,000

               > Matthew Newkirk, Blind Man's Bluff

The Jeff Spann Award: $500

               > Henri van Noordenburg, Composition XXXVI       3/5

Section 2 Highly Commended       

               > Beau-Dean Moloney, DE-CONSTRUCTION

SECTION 3: THREE DIMENSIONAL & FIBRE WORKS

The Gladstone Ports Corporation Award: $2,000

               > Christine Holden, Jellyfish Blues

The Swift Award: $1,000

               > Jan Strudwick, I love a sunburnt country…

The Queensland Energy Resources (QER) Award: $500

               > Lidia Godijn, Indigo, Silk, a Japanese Connection

Section 3 Highly Commended

               > John Cooper, A fish set for an Industrial Ocean

SECTION 4: DIGITAL WORKS

The McDonald's Gladstone Region Award: $2,000

               > Hayley Groves George and Susie Lewis, Battlefield: Known Enemy

The CQUniversity Award: $1,000

               > Tracey-Lea Smith, Passing Time

The Creative Gladstone Region Inc. and Crow Street Creative Award: $500

               > Lynda Black, The Passing and The Farewell

Section 4 Highly Commended

               > Michelle Wagner, Fred

The exhibition is now on display until 8 December. Visitors are invited to cast their vote for The QAL People's Choice Awards in each of the four sections of entry; Easel Paintings; Works on Paper; Three Dimensional & Fibre Works; and Digital Works. Voting closes 12 noon, Monday 5 December, with the winners announced, Wednesday 7 December.

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