Above: Jennifer Keeler-Milne, Beetles, bugs and butterflies (2019), charcoal, paper, glass and wood. 5 domes; 25 x 14 x 14cm, 4 domes; 10 x 10cm
Congratulations to our artists Jennifer Keeler-Milne and Terry Matassoni, finalists in the 2019 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is a $25,000 acquisitive art award among the most significant of its kind in the country. Inaugurated in 2006, the Prize is generously supported by the Parents and Friends’ Association of Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC) Sydney. Named in honour of respected painter, printmaker and draughtswoman, Miss Adelaide Elizabeth Perry who taught Art at PLC Sydney from 1930 to 1962, the Prize attracts submissions from around the country.
The exhibition of 2019 Finalists will run from 2 – 28 March 2019. At the end of the exhibition a people’s choice award of $2,000 will be awarded to the favourite finalist work as voted by gallery visitors.
Where: Adelaide Perry Gallery, In ‘The Croydon’ Centre for Art, Design & Technology, Corner of Hennessy and College Streets, Croydon
Official opening and announcement of winner with special guest speaker Dr Maryanne Coutts, Head of Drawing, National Art School (NAS)
Friday 1 March 7pm
JENNIFER KEELER-MILNE
Beetles, bugs and butterflies
This piece was created as part of an ongoing preoccupation with drawing natural forms in charcoal. These drawings also reference Cabinets of curiosities, which were created as a way to study and reflect on nature. Many early cabinets were considered a source of wonder because they contained beautiful natural objects, that were also rare. For me, creating drawings of organic forms both celebrates them and brings attention to them within our fragile eco system.
Images: Jennifer Keeler-Milne, Beetles, bugs and butterflies (2019), charcoal, paper, glass and wood. 5 domes; 25 x 14 x 14cm, 4 domes; 10 x 10cm
TERRY MATASSONI
Dancing in the park
Above: Terry Matassoni, Dancing in the park (2019), pencil on paper, 55 x 76cm