One hundred and ten artworks from across Australia have been chosen as finalists in this year’s Blacktown City Art Prize. The works will be competing for a total prize pool of $20,000, and will be part of the exhibition at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, Max Webber Library, Dennis Johnson Library and The Mt Druitt Hub from 27 November 2021 to 27 January 2022.
The works were judged by a panel comprising Pedro de Almeida Senior Curator, C3West at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Dr Fan Dongwang Chinese born Australian artist and Leanne Mulgo Watson artist, educator and book illustrator.
Blacktown Arts received a total of 560 entries from artists across Australia, ranging from painting and drawing to sculpture, ceramics and mixed media.
Please see the full list of 2021 Blacktown City Art Prize finalists below.
Patricia Abela
Petalura Gigantea
Julianne Ross Allcorn
Hidden Nature’s Delight
Daniel Apps
Return to Disco
Walter Auer
Golden Prince
Maree Azzopardi
The Road to Mt Banks #1
Clinton Barker
Passing Over
Peter Bartlett
Sack Women
Lachlan Bell
Spun from the Sea
Mary Bozic
In Good Company
Helen Brancatisano
Memory Springs
David Asher Brook
Couple (Huskisson Beach)
Beatrice Buckland-Willis
Critical Collapse (construct) I
Peter Burger
Winter Landscape 4
Jane Burton Taylor
Colonial wallpaper – Our Anthropocene
Tina Barahanos & Alex Byrne
On the Spin No.2
Negin Chahoud
Azadi man / My freedom
Darren Charlwood
Miyagan (Kindred Wiradjuri)
Carol Christie
Spot Fires
Joanna Cole
Post
Paul Connor
Harbour Composition
Rosaleen Cooney
Surviving his Disillusionment
Gabrielle Courtenay
Gaia
Gabrielle Courtenay
The Prophesy Unfolds
Claire Crook
Antennae
Damian Dillon
Suburban Chrome #12
Patrick Doherty
Servo
David Doyle
Wontanella (Menindee Lakes)
Adrian Elmer
Self
Louise Fowler-Smith
Critically Endangered – Caladenia patersonii var. hastate
Sarah Frost
Silent Yearning
Xavier Ghazi
Nick Stathopoulos Artist
Maddison Gibbs
River Matriarch
Dina Gillespie
Those where the days
Minka Gillian
Coronavirus Talisman
Naomi Grant
Window to the Dreaming
Ingrid Haydon
City Studio
Annarie Hildebrand
Setting Up II
Fiona Hiscock
Royal Park Refuge
Jody Hoskins
MAWANG (Connections)
Jude Hungerford
The Last of Days
Adrienne Hunt
Awakenings
Linda Joyce
Groovin’…on a Sunday Afternoon
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger
Mangrove Series V – Beyond the Light
Samara Kendall
Main Street Blacktown
Diamando Koutsellis
Travelling into the Vortex
Jen Lamb
Lockdown’s Luminosity
Nathan Lee
See you
Hyun Hee Lee
Remembering
Anne Leisner
For Lease
Catherine Leung
Isn’t She Lovely
Songshi Li
Sydney Chinese Garden
Renee Lim
The Other
Sarah Longhurst
Realms
Carmel Mackie
Nautilus Shell – Blues of the Ocean
Geoff Matthews
After the burn – Bulls Camp 2
Daniela Matts
Yearning
Lisa McKimmie
Late Summer II-The Persistence of the Australian Landscape in the Mind of a Painter
Lilach Mileikowski
Song of Ascents
Libby Moore
Not Far from a Still Life
Mike Moore & Jeff Lees
Sepia Blacktown
Nick Morris
End This Reign
Anne Mossman
Eucalypts Study 5
Xanthe Muston
Charge of the Forgotten Relics
Kathie Najar
Cradle Mountain Creek
Kathie Najar
Autumn Grasses
Michele Newman
Transaction
Mary Thi Nguyen
Story of Broome
Trudi Nisbet
Winner Takes All
Eva Nolan
Yellow-spotted Tree Frog and Spider Orchid
Holly Oakley
N.S.W 11am Covid Update
Marilu Ordemann
CUTTING CORNERS
Lemah Orya
The Tales of Our Past
Hilton Owen
Train Commuter
Judy Panucci
Aged Care
Sam Patterson-Smith
An Unbalance of Opposites
Shirley Peters
On Way to Nepean, After the Rains
Simone Read
Spirit Warrior
Peter Rush
Olive’s room in the long weeks of this year’s lockdown
Peter Rush
The cadence and rhythm of Delhi
Kean Onn See
Vale Joey
Erik Shahmoradian
Fruit of Fertility
Tara Sheather
Outlandish
Belinda Sims
The Sentinels
Renay Smith
Fern Wall
Emily Solomons
We are Strong
Lucy Stackpool
Michael
Sally Stokes
Travelling through Time
Surekha Suri
An Unlikely Friendship
Reza Taghipour
Memory
Ali Tahayori
Lost & Found (2/2)
Jayanto Tan
Hundreds and Thousands Party (Double Happiness)
Fraser The Razor
Cumberland Plain Canopy
Rachel Theodorakis
Nurture Series IV
Thomas Thorby-Lister
Untitled (Gesture 02)
Leanne Tobin
Are You Listening Now?
Gauri Torgalkar
Wollemi Paths – Walking with Others
Datsun Tran
Ember
Kin Kwok Tsang
No passengers
Yvette Tziallas
Lacrimo
Tim Van
Man in the Arena
Roshin Vatta Parambath
Are You Really Ok
Lachlan Warner
Portrait of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk
Nicole Welsh
Still Human
Sally West
The Bus Depot
Patrice Wills
Elder (Portrait of Wes Marne with Grandchild Jack)
Mel Jane Wilson
Surges
Dawei Xu
The 19th Earth
Aliki Yiorkas
Waiting for Ava
Kayo Yokoyama
Homeland – Belong
Fozia Zahid
Street Life of Blacktown City …