Angus Fisher & Martin King – Finalists in the 2022 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize

In News May 8, 2022

Martin King  Tree of life, unsuccessful species  2021  dry point, chine colle and hand colouring  168 x 165 cm

 

Congratulations to Angus Fisher and Martin King who have been selected as finalists in the 2022 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.

 

Launched in 2002, The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize commemorates the birth of The South Australian Museum’s first curator Frederick Waterhouse.  The prize encourages artists to investigate the world around them and present their perspectives on natural science.  Entrants respond to scientific issues facing our planet, offering a platform to contribute to the debate.

 

There are two prize categories, an open prize of $30,000 and an emerging artist prize of $10,000

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize

South Australian Museum

June 3 – August 7

10am – 5pm

 

Angus Fisher

Angus Fisher is a Sydney based artist that specialises in printmaking and drawing, working primarily in pen and ink and copper plate etching. Known for his precise and intricate observations of the natural world, Fisher’s practice not only investigates the diversity of ecology through his subjects, but the evolving attitudes, relationships and philosophical interpretations of humankind to the wider natural world. In 2018, Fisher presented a folio consisting of 24 hand-coloured etchings titled ‘Birds of New Holland’ as a contemporary reference and accompaniment to the early encyclopedic natural history illustrations of J.W. Lewin.

 

Angus Fisher  Gunyah Point  2021 charcoal on paper 73 x 100 cm

Martin King

Martin King’s wide-ranging art practice is underpinned by an abiding interest in the Australian landscape, most visibly by making connections between land, sea and air.

King’s earlier works on paper traced the movement of rain shadows and the effect of weather patterns across undulating terrain and vast tracts of desert. His more recent works express the fragility of our relationship with nature using creatures of the sky as simple motifs that convey a paradoxical vision of the Australian landscape as both tranquil and unsettling.

Martin King  Tree of life, unsuccessful species  2022  dry point, chine colle and hand colouring  168 x 165 cm

Martin King  Tree of life, unsuccessful species detail  2022  dry point, chine colle and hand colouring  168 x 165 cm