Rick Matear, Marina Strocchi and Thornton Walker are finalists in the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award 2017.
The Eutick Memorial Still Life Award is the only national still life painting award and offers a non-acquisitive First Prize of $20,000. The 2017 award will again be judged by John McDonald, who has been principal judge since the awards inception. The winner will be announced on the opening night, Friday 10 November 2017.
Still life is an enduring genre with an intriguing and chequered past. Emerging in Europe in the 16th Century it waxed and waned in popularity but never entirely vanished. Still life, or nature morte, traditionally involved arrangements of fruit, flowers and natural objects – dead or alive. Genuine mastery was essential to realistically reproduce the crepe-like texture of poppies, the velvety surface of tulips, the furs, feathers and fins of dead animals; and the convincing replication of glass, crystal or metal in the depiction of vases, weapons and mirrors.
Eutick Memorial Still Life Award 2017
Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong
10 November – 9 December
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Image at top: Marina Strocchi Sur la table 2017, acrylic on paper on board, 60 x 80 cm
Above: Rick Matear Lemon Verbena 2017, oil on linen, 67 x 57 cm
Thornton Walker ‘Lemon with leaves on enamel plate’ 2017, oil on panel, 35 x 36 cm
Thornton Walker ‘Lemon with leaves on enamel plate’ 2017, oil on panel, 35 x 36 cm