Blacktown City Art Prize finalists announced

There have been 113 artworks from across Australia 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 LightBen 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