I’m SO excited to be selected as a finalist in this year’s Paddington Art Prize!!! I’m honoured they have chosen my painting THE WEB for a landscape exhibition!
I do like looking up. I spend a lot of time doing that, for many reasons (of which there are more and more these days of very challenging times!), but I digress… Wires with blue sky beyond… look at them, to me they are visually a bit like a man-made tree, lacework maybe, or a tangled web. I found out that no two are the same, like snowflakes or fingerprints. They look like technology from a time long gone, yet they actually work to keep us connected most of the time. They are dangerous when they fall over, so ultimately they will disappear to be replaced by underground wires (a much safer option), but for now – I’m interested in those old weathered timber poles, and the newer green treated ones as well, and the way the light catches the wires creating some interesting patterns in the sky, a little like small branches of a tree!
I don’t expect to win at all – but I’m so excited just to be hung alongside over 50 talented artists! Update: I got a ⭐️HIGHLY COMMENDED!
The Paddington Art Prize is a $30,000 National acquisitive prize, awarded annually for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape. Established in 2004 by Arts Patron, Marlene Antico OAM, this National prize takes its place among the country’s most lucrative and highly coveted painting prizes. The prize encourages the interpretation of the landscape as a significant contemporary genre, its long tradition in Australian painting as a key contributor to our national ethos, and is a positive initiative in private patronage of the arts in Australia. The exhibition was held at Defiance Gallery in Sydney.
