Blacktown Arts are thrilled to announce that the Blacktown City Art Prize exhibition will open the 2023 summer program at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre.
The Blacktown City Art Prize is a much loved, open-themed art prize and exhibition.
The exhibition showcases the work of the 72 finalists, including a significant number of First Nations (15%) and local artists (22%).
The works span a range of styles and media including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and photo and mixed-media. A number of submissions reflect a growing sense of hope, resilience and positivity.
The independent judging panel commented that diverse and versatile styles were reflected amongst the selected finalists’ work which included a mix of emerging and established artists.
This year, Blacktown Arts received 514 entries from over 400 artists across Australia.
Alongside the Art Prize, Blacktown Arts will also be showcasing artworks from the Young Artist Prize. Kids and young people aged 3-14 years from Blacktown City are encouraged to create an artwork in response to the theme of Caring for Waterways, to be submitted at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre on 2 and 3 December.
Awards for the Main Prize, Aboriginal Artist Prize and Local Artist Prize will be announced on Saturday 21 January 2023.
Visitors can vote for their favourite artwork in the People’s Choice Prize. The winner will be announced within the last week of the exhibition.
The Blacktown City Art Prize exhibition is open to the public from Tuesday 10 January to Friday 17 February 2023.
Entry is free and all are welcome.
See the full list of 2022/23 Blacktown City Art Prize finalists below.
Maissa Alameddine
To Hold
Skye Andrew
Moruya 1983
Walter Auer
Young Heroes
Tony Belobrajdic
Not from Here
Brittany Bishop
Whatsherface
Lilith Bloom
Postcards from my Psychological Journey
Kathryn Blumke
Tyagarah Creek Quilt
Shane Bonsujet
Culling Voices
Mary Bozic
The Chess Game
Isabel and Lina Buck
Still Life #1, 2 and 4
Francis Cai
Stardust
Tyler Carson
Urban Jungle
Leila Cheikh
PARRAMATTA ESSENCE X 2022
Jayne Christian
Guwing Burragula Ngurrawa (Sunset on Country)
Penny Coss
Purple Flume
Jingalu Craig
Historys True Past. (How the Warragamba Dam was Made)
Alex Cyreszko
Ewa – The Healer
Christine Druitt-Preston
Bouquet for Hazel
Stan Florek
Anniversary
Mandy Fu
Self Portrait
Oscar Garcia
Up, Close and Personal
Tim Gregory
You Yangs 1984/2022
Amala Groom
Found
Matthew Hall Fong
Self Portrait from Life
Brodie Harris
Ocean Dreams
Freya Jobbins
WOUND
Lauren Johnson
The Great Barrier Reef
Leanne Jones
Dinawan Ngarraarry – Emu Hunt
Virginia Keft
The Colony on Show
Fruzsi Kenez
The Last Gasp
Danica Knezevic
Salami Face
Jo Langley
Fracas
Brigita Lastauskaite
Shimmering Love on the Seabed
Mina Lee
Rousehill
Hyun Hee Lee
108 Defilements
Anne Leisner
Back of Addison
Carmel Mackie
Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
NG Malla
‘Loving home’
Carolyn McKay
She was in the Dream Test
Lee Mitchell
Study of a Chinese Freemason’s Lantern
Marisa Mu
There Is No Doubt – This Is A Womxn’s World
Lesley Murray
Lozikeyi
Pieter Neve
Opa
Nelson Nghe
Bug Spray
Mary Nguyen
Small Sketches
Jessica Nothdurft
Hey Bitch
Connor Ovenden-Shaw
TRANSaction
Catherine Parker
Rear view road trip to 70 mile Llarnath Queensland
Hiren Patel
Obey
Kristine Pedler
Metal Jug and Gum Leaves
Louis Pratt
Shadow Dancer
Jian Hua Qian
Totem
Peter Rush
Sightlines, The Blacktown Native Institution site. Standing here, it’s placeless, I felt erasure, ignorance (my own), indifference.
Julie Scifo
Heading down to Ktown
Ebony Secombe
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Kirthana Selvaraj
Ramesh and the Guardian
Erik Shahmoradian
Noor
An Sheng
Playground
Chanel Sohier
The Town That Time Forgot
Kate Stehr
Scribing Tools III
Sally Stokes
Why does a horizon exist?
Surekha Suri
Village Wedding Celebration
Ali Tahayori
You&Me
Jess Taylor
Dig Two Graves
Roshin Vattaparambath
Self/Portrait: Being Father
Bankstown Koori Elders Group
Lines between the Stories
Jayniel Villacorta
Unalome
Anthony Walker
Cape Byron
Simon Welsh
I’m a real boy
Hal Witney
GOD IS. I AM.
Image: Joanna Cole, Post (detail), 2021