One hundred and thirteen 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 from 28 November 2020 to 28 January 2021.
Of the finalists, 25% are artworks by Blacktown City residents, and will be eligible for the Local Artist Prize. Ten per cent are by Aboriginal artists, and will be eligible for the Aboriginal Artist Prize.
The works were judged by a panel comprising Kyra Kum-Sing (Artist and Curator, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative), Pedro de Almeida (Senior Curator, C3West at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney) and Cath Barcan (Artist and Head Teacher of Visual Arts, Nepean Arts & Design Centre, TAFE NSW-Kingswood).
A record number of 893 entries were received this year – a 69% increase on the number of entries received in 2019. Entries were received from 660 artists across Australia, ranging from painting and drawing to sculpture, ceramics and mixed media.
Please see the full list of 2020 Blacktown City Art Prize finalists below.
Marian Abboud
Juice
Erandi Amarasinghe
Commuters No.2
Lauren Ami
Rego
Felicia Aroney
Everything Green
Vanessa Ashcroft
Road trip to Blayney
Walter Auer
Memory 1
Karima Baadilla
Blue Robe
Min Woo Bang
Uncertain Sky (Jindabyne)
Debra Beale
Series of 3 – LAYERS
Robert Bennetts
Suburban Musing
Liam Benson
Deliquescent Jack
Karen Bloomfield
Desire VS Reality
Joe Blundell
Sunset through Bracken
Linda Brescia
Peggy
Alexandra Byrne
Other Stories
Kristone Capistrano
Portrait of a Man
Russell Carey
Dodge
Isabella Carturan
Poppies
Darren Charlwood
Mismanagement
Graham Cheney
Auntie Rita Wright
Gabrielle Courtenay
The Guardian
Carolyn Craig
Mining the Sublime: The Fold
Rob Davis
Am I Not A Man & A Brother
Travis De Vries
Journey to Water Totem
Tamara Dean
Fleeting
Niek Dingemans
Recalibration
Paula do Prado
Vuelo/Flight
Rosalie Duligal
After the Ball
Nicolle Duncan
Coolamon: Cradle of Life
Azarmidokht Elahi
Covid19 Plus Quarantine Equals to Toilet Paper
David El-Melky
Mayor of Blacktown City
Vanessa Encarnacao
Crocheted Camouflage 2
Dongwang Fan
Pandemic Body
Nick Ferguson
Three Swimmers (The Flicker)
Jason Fitzgerald
Concertinaed Technicolor
Stan Florek
Deputation
Cameron Forsyth
Cheeseburger with Extra Pixels
Hayley Megan French
The Pipeline Polaroids (Guildford 15)
Sarah Frost
Filter
Lisa Giles
Lockdown 1
Minka Gillian
Personal Icon Rainbow
Carmen Glynn-Braun
In the Eye of the Beholder
Dennis Golding
From Home to Home
Rachel Govett
Let me carry your burden
Naomi Grant
Twists and Turns
Alannah Grasso
Tortellini
Amala Groom
ADMINAUSTRALIA NSW
Amber Hammad
Decolonizing Cook
Orson Heidrich
Fold
Nick Heynsbergh
When I was in grade 6, the ‘cool’ guys would corner me and my best friend and throw us against the back of the portables, insisting that we were gay. I didn’t even know what ‘gay’ meant.
Annarie Hildebrand
Silver Dollars and Blushing Bride Composition
Jude Hungerford
Desert Monuments
Pleasance Ingle
Best in Show series, Blue Jacket
Jennifer Jackson
Histories Strara
Lauren Johnson
Awah
Locust Jones
Bethlehem Diary
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger
Stingray Bay Mangrove Series – Into the Light
Ben Kenning
Displaced Persons II
Samia Khan
Belonging 2
Mada Krivoruchko
Badger
Ruth Le Cheminant
Covid19 series – A Study in Contemplation
Hyun Hee Lee
Nothingness
Lee Leibrandt
Oh hi 2020
Anne Leisner
Light Rail Roadworks
Catherine Leung
The Road in Between
Songshi Li
Landscape
Erin Litschauer
The Shed Floor
Gabriella Lo Presti
On the slope of the embankment, angels swirl their woolen dresses through pastures of steel and emerald
Margaret Lopez
2766 the New 90210 Gang
Carmel Mackie
Cheeky Gang Gang
Paul Maher
Morning steps through the trees – Boomerang Beach
Nic Mason
Straining the Lot
Asma D. Mather
From what the River knows (a contemplation)
Simon McGrath
For Lease
Dani McKenzie
Storm Rolling In
Paul McKnight
Stocks & Nougat
Tanika Meeks
Unprecedented
Heidi Melamed
Combine Panel Bubble Gum Blue Set
Ray Monde
We Emerged Blinking in the Daylight
Rodney Moss
Emerging from Isolation
Terry Murphy
Summer 2019
Barbara Newton
It’s That Kinda Day
Adam Norton
Red Star
Holly Oakley
Bear of Unity
Peter Op’t Land
Parramatta
Raven Pajarillaga
By Chance in the West
Jasmine Poole and Chris Sewell
I have something to tell you
Jian Hua Qian
Through
Nikita Redkar
Lucas
Peter Rush
Know Justice
Khaled Sabsabi
The Prophet
Julie Scifo
Penrith station through dirty window for the department of infrastructure, transport, regional development and communications
Roqayya Shehata
Self Portrait
An Sheng
Worry (Self-portrait in front of the webcam)
Marija Skroza
Salmon Still Life
Melissa Smith
Drawn to Listen Closely
Lauri Smith
Shadow Self
Sara Sohrabian
First Six Months of Love
Sara Sohrabian
“Heechestan” (Nothingness)
Rosalind Stanley
And so It Grows
Sally Stokes
Among the Milky Trunks
Abdullah Syed M. I.
Capital Couture: AMIS 5AU$ Outdoor Coat after Renouf Rig Diplomatic Uniform proposed by Alan Renouf, the former Australian Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs
Reza Taghipour
Melting
Anna Tebar
New Beginnings
Thomas Thorby-Lister
Untitled (Rolling Tide)
Yvette-Marie Tziallas
Lost in Abstract
Damien Van der Meer
L-FRESH The LION
Jay Wassell
Recycled memories
Zoe Watson
Lucid Gaze
Debbey Watson
Ruminations
Shaun Wilson
The Climate Refugees
Jason Wing
Captain James Crook
Leon Zhan
AirDrop