People's Choice Voting: Queensland Regional Art Awards 2019
13aug(aug 13)9:00 am20sep(sep 20)5:00 pmPeople's Choice Voting: Queensland Regional Art Awards 2019
Time
13th August 2019 9:00 am - 20th September 2019 5:00 pm(GMT+10:00)
Event Details
Vote now for the People’s Choice Awards in this year’s Queensland Regional Art Awards. The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and
Event Details
Vote now for the People’s Choice Awards in this year’s Queensland Regional Art Awards.
The Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) is an annual visual arts prize and exhibition for established and emerging artists living in regional and remote Queensland. The theme in 2019 is ‘State of Diversity’:
Queensland is a state full of diverse ecosystems, wildlife, places, people and personalities. This year, artists are encouraged to explore the diverse elements and qualities that make up their own communities and locations within Queensland.
The theme was to be addressed in an accompanying artist statement of 100 – 150 words.
People’s Choice Award Voting Process
There are two categories within the People’s Choice Award. Your votes determine the winners of the following prizes:
Adult – $1,250 Ironlak art materials voucher
Youth – $750 Ironlak art materials voucher
Thanks to Ironlak
All entries that meet competition requirements are eligible for the People’s Choice Award.
Voting Process
1. Voting is restricted to one vote each for adult/youth per person.
2. To vote you must provide your real name and email address for confirmation.
3. A confirmation email will be sent to your nominated email address to confirm your vote. You will need to reply to this email to validate and confirm your submission. If you do not reply to this email your vote will not be valid
Voting Now Closed
Adult Category
Lean Out and Dance
Artist: Adrienne Williams
Artist Location: ELLIOTT HEADS
Medium: Oil on canvas, 2019
Dimensions: 91.5 x 91.5 x 3.5 cm
Artist Statement:
The northern headland of the Elliott River is my new home. This work is a conversation through markmaking about the diverse natural, cultural and elemental forces that continue to change and shape where I’m living. A perfect line of planted casuarinas perches atop red volcanic soil, underpinned by a coastline of basalt rock flung in messy patterns from an ancient volcano. Walking out to see these views each morning produces a surge of joy and disbelief within me… do I really live here? And this daily routine has bought a utopian dreamlike quality to this piece with it’s perfect line of leaning casuarinas, juxtaposed against tumbledown undergrowth and the jumble of rocky tidelines. Elliott Heads is both caressed and scarred by water and wind – literally the winds of change that will continue to extend it’s diversity well beyond my time here.
Photographer: Adrienne Williams
Yarrun
Artist: Gertie Deeral
Artist Location: HOPE VALE
Medium: Screen printed ink on dupion silx, 2018
Dimensions: 120 x 100 x 0 cm
Artist Statement:
This is my fabric of “Yarun” which means “wattle” in my Guugu Ymithirr language. When you see that the wattle seeds are in bloom in this area, it is a special time of year. You know that the sea foods are ready to go – the crabs and the prawns are fully grown and ready to catch. The fish, sea urchin, oysters, even the turtle are fat and really yummy. We don’t know what time of year it is but we just look at the wattle in bloom, then we know!
Photographer: Melanie Gibson
Out of the Blue
Artist: Karen Stephens
Artist Location: WINTON
Medium: Acrylic on paper, 2019
Dimensions: 20 x 29 x 3 cm
Artist Statement:
Boulder Opal with its dominant flashes of brilliant blue, is found deep underground at Opalton near Winton Queensland. Once an inland sea, the gem has been luring diverse nationalities since the late 1800s. Boulder Opal is unique to Winton making this remote region a state of diversity.
My painting is from a larger collection of recent works made in Winton about the coloured gem. I liken my practice of a landscape painter to the work of an opal miner – long hours in solitude and a belief in finding richness. There is this daily repetitive search, a type of chipping or scraping away and often I come home frustrated and empty handed. The prospect of finding wealth in this way is reflected in the eyes and words of the wider public which contain a tinge of madness.
But then sometimes I strike it lucky – I am fishing for landscape.
Photographer: Karen Stephens
Bluefaced honey eaters
Artist: Debbie Dieckmann
Artist Location: MILLMERRAN
Medium: Watercolour, 2019
Dimensions: 55 x 45 x 0 cm
Artist Statement:
I have been a creator all my life being raised in the bush by my mother who was an artist. I began my artist endeavours by painting and then created using different mediums for several years .In the last 6 years I have returned to painting and mixed media but in the last 10 months I have found a passion for watercolour and the wildlife in my bush community. For me watercolor best illustrates the fragility and subtly diversity of the bush, be it’s colours, delicacy of birds or fauna. Bush diversity is everywhere and is often overlooked as its subtle and changes with the seasons.
I am intrigued with my co inhabitants and try to record glimpses of their lives in my paintings. There’s over 238 birds, numerous marsupials and reptiles here so it’s going to be a long interesting journey without leaving home.
Photographer: Debbie Dieckmann
My Grandmother’s Country
Artist: Agnes Kohler
Artist Location: Gununa, Mornington Island
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, 2018
Dimensions: 120 x 101.5 x 5 cm
Artist Statement:
My Grandmother’s Country is on the back of Main Base at Bentinck Island – this is where the sun rises and the sun shines on all of us no matter where we come from and who we are.
Photographer: John Armstrong
Hanging out the clothes
Artist: Sharon Hamill
Artist Location: BUDERIM
Medium: Acrylics, 2019
Dimensions: 101 x 76 x 4 cm
Artist Statement:
Winter sun on the Sunshine Coast casts heavily patterns of light and dark. This afternoon sun painting tried to capture the diversity of sun and light with smooth of lawn and texture of the bush. The image tried to impart a snapshot in time in a rural setting in the coast
Photographer: Sharon Hamill
Castle in the Sky
Artist: Sandra Ross
Artist Location: GYMPIE
Medium: Mixed media on hal, 2019
Dimensions: 107 x 78 x 1 cm
Artist Statement:
Mothar Mountain rockpools, Amama waterfall and the birthing pools of Mary’s Creek are some very special places around me. Drawing and walking through these places has provided me with a repertoire from which to imagine world within worlds.
Human existence is threatened due to global heating.
My work shows a seedy heart shaped landscape geminating, carrying DNA into a hopeful future, yet fortified to protect its inhabitants. Rocks bleed watery tears, roots tangle and entwine, searching for new life.
The earth may lie dormant, chrysalises will metamorphosise, new life will prevail, however, for now, we cannot foresee the future and are floating like a castle in the sky.
Photographer: Sandra Ross
Fractured Landscape
Artist: Andrea Baumert Howard
Artist Location: EASTERN HEIGHTS
Medium: Junk mail, newspaper, egg carton, office paper, recycled craft paper pulp, 2019
Dimensions: 34 x 50 x 0.3 cm
Artist Statement:
Queensland is a state of enormous potential. We have natural resources we don’t value enough, and getting to the resources that hold value to mega corporations means destroying large tracts of the natural environment.
What has been done to the state in the name of progress and chasing the almighty dollar is shameful.
We are in danger of loosing the very diversity that makes up our home. The coastlines, rainforests, deserts, grasslands, big skies will be swallowed up by pollution, the creatures that live there pushed to extinction.
I have used a variety of recycled papers to create my landscape in paper pulp. Junk mail, newspaper, egg carton, office paper, recycled craft paper make up the body of the scenes.
I want to highlight the fragility of our environments with the fragility of the handmade paper and express my sorrow over what humans have done to our state of diversity.
Photographer: Andrea Baumert Howard
Mystical Night in Paronella Park (North Queensland)
Artist: Elena Suto
Artist Location: Regents Park
Medium: Oil on canvas, 2019
Dimensions: 51 x 76 x 4 cm
Artist Statement:
Paronella Park comes alive in the evening with floodlit lights and waterfalls, and beautiful mysterious music.
Paronella Park was built by Jose Paronella in 1930 and was open to the public in 1935. A visit to this lovely place located in Germantown (the Cairns region), will earn you an insight into the story behind the castle-like buildings, the family history of the past owners, an adventure around the park at night, a chance to feed and view all of the fish in the lake and a piece of the building as a keepsake of your visit. Paronella Park is a one of a kind magical location with a rich past which deserves to be seen and heard. Regular cyclones and floods may one day totally destroy this piece of history to ensure that you visit it before it disappears forever.
Photographer: Elena Suto
No. 10 (Noosa River)
Artist: M.N. Cox
Artist Location: COOROY
Medium: Oil on linen, 2018
Dimensions: 61 x 91 x 3.5 cm
Artist Statement:
My grandparents bought at Noosaville in the 1950s so I’ve been visiting the Noosa River all my life. Now I live nearby. While the area has changed a lot (and the river is under pressure) it still holds a place in my heart.
This picture was painted in oils and is a composite of aspects of river life and things I’ve seen there over the years. I like how everyone comes together and there are so many distinct activities occurring on the river banks and water.
Photographer: M.N.Cox
Red Thread
Artist: Janine Delgos
Artist Location: GYMPIE
Medium: Mixed media on board, 2019
Dimensions: 30 x 23 x 2 cm
Artist Statement:
Biodiversity is the thread that encompasses a large variety of all living things; the different plants, animals and micro organisms, the genetic information they contain and the ecosystems they form. We are all connected to this thread no matter how minute or diverse. How important is that thread? Extremely important!!! Australia’s biodiversity is under increased threat and has, overall, continued to decline. A small step towards maintaining a thread for me is the ability to express my passion for our precious environment and collect, document and record places I visit and create, in-situ, small artworks that reflect the diverse fragments in those spaces. Whether it be sketching, painting, rubbing, smudging, collecting, photographing or just sitting in these places, I maintain the thread.
Photographer: Janine Delgos
Tree of Knowledge
Artist: Jennifer Redmond
Artist Location: Highvale
Medium: Acrylic/Oil on canvas, 2019
Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 1 cm
Artist Statement:
The ancient pine tree in my garden is “The tree of knowledge”
having witnessed the development of the area from settlement to to-day.
The land where the tree stands is at the headwaters of the South Pine River and at the base of Mt. Nebo and Mount Glorious. Returned Soldiers from the First World War were given holdings here and began tilling and working the land. The diversity which began with the soldiers has over time changed to the now settled area of Rural Suburbia. This is still an area held dear by the community and where there is a huge involvement with local issues within a caring environment.
The old pine tree has witnessed it all and stands tall and proud with the knowledge of the diversity of change from the past to the present.
Photographer: Jon Linkins
Host i
Artist: Donna Davis
Artist Location: DEEBING HEIGHTS
Medium: Pigment print onto fine art rag, 2019
Dimensions: 60 x 40 x 0 cm
Artist Statement:
This work plays with the idea of the biological host; exploring the complex relationship between human and nature with respect to maintaining our ecological diversity.
Here the floral emblem of my home-town Ipswich, the ‘Plunkett mallee’ simultaneously presents an image of hope and despair; inviting the viewer to question their own ecological truth.
Plants are intrinsic to the health of our planet, yet one-in-five plant species are vulnerable to extinction. By losing plants from their natural environment we are adversely affecting the state of diversity, upsetting the natural balance for all dependent organisms.
Not only are plants key players in helping mitigate the climate crisis but they are also working, under stressful conditions, to provide habitat, food and oxygen; supporting multi-species diversity, including the human.
Which leads me to ask, what is our role? What type of Host are we to our local diversity?
Photographer: donna davis
SWEET LOVE AND THE BULLOAK JEWEL 2019
Artist: Lee FullARTon
Artist Location: BLACKSTONE IPSWICH
Medium: Acrylic and collage on wood panel, 2019
Dimensions: 25 x 25 x 2 cm
Artist Statement:
Near the Darling Downs town of Leyburn is Ellengowan Nature Reserve a fragile habitat for the ancient Bulloak and the endangered Bulloak Jewel Butterfly Hypochrysops piceata.
It is a nature story of complex relationships of diverse and endangered species only found in Queensland. My favourite part of this ecological story is the exchange of sugary delights for protection and guidance between the Bulloak Jewel Caterpillar and an undescribed ant, Anonychomyrma sp.
Reviewing the work of Entomologist, Dr Don Sands in conservation of this rare and tiny butterfly, led me to an artists expedition to discover the last place of the Bulloak Jewel in paint and paper.
Photographer: Lee FullARTon
Inclusive Diversity
Artist: Leigh-Ann Hargreaves
Artist Location: IPSWICH
Medium: Mixed medium- mostly acrylic, 2019
Dimensions: 80 x 100 x 5 cm
Artist Statement:
In creating Inclusive Diversity I used a diverse range of colours representative of Queensland soils and plants. Deep red fertile soil of Redland Bay and rich black soil of the Scenic Rim. North Queensland is represented in the lush greens and blues of the forests. Ochre reminded me of dry Western Qld and golden yellows for the sandy Coast. Queensland is a state of diversity of climate and conditions.
I have represented people of diverse cultures, ages and abilities. In painting the figures, I have used colour to represent diversity, not skin colour. We are richer for our differences. . Inclusivity makes our communities stronger, smarter, safer and richer.
I am promoting a state of tolerance and understanding where marginalisation no longer exists.
Photographer: Leigh-Ann Hargreaves
Memories of Sadako
Artist: Scarlet Burke
Artist Location: BRASSALL
Medium: Digital photograph of acrylic sheet, baking paper, plaster wall, 2018
Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 0 cm
Artist Statement:
I recently went on a research trip to the Old Woollen Mills in North Ipswich as part of an exploration of local architecture, a place of rich history, cultural diversity, What was once a bustling mill, producing wool for Australian and allied troops for blankets and uniforms, providing income for local working-class people, is now reduced to crumbling decay. The decay is reflective of the war in which the wool was utilised most effectively. Interestingly, there is a lot of high-quality graffiti and street art covering walls, some of which include origami paper cranes. These paper cranes reminded me of Sadako, the little girl who developed Leukemia after the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII and whose mission was to make 1000 paper cranes as a symbol of peace. This artwork is a reflection on the diversity of people utilising the Mills over time and the impact of war.
Photographer: Scarlet Burke
Golden Hues
Artist: Jaine Jackson
Artist Location: GYMPIE
Medium: Acrylic mixed media, 2019
Dimensions: 58 x 58 x 3 cm
Artist Statement:
‘Golden Hues’ Encapsulates the rich colours of our diverse far stretching landscape. Where the ocean meets the coloured sands and estuaries bordered by mangrove flats. From ocean blues through our National Parks and forest darks to hinterland distant blues and misty hues through the Mary Valley and beyond. From fractured earth during droughts to flooded land when the Mary swells. Our city Gympie/gimpi sits on the banks with a golden history and some still to be found hidden under our streets.
Photographer: Jaine Jackson
Cairns central
Artist: Michael Daly
Artist Location: SOUTH MISSION BEACH
Medium: Poster Ink on synthetic paper., 2019
Dimensions: 60 x 84 x 0.1 cm
Artist Statement:
If you want a snapshot of cultural diversity visit your local food court. You might be eating sushi next to a family member dining on hamburger, curry or kabab. Chances are they will be having a vegan salad and you might opt for your coffee on almond milk…or not. If you are in Cairns during winter you will hear accents from Europe, Canada, Japan, Korea, China, New Zealand, and Victoria. The people are all ages talking loud on their phones, not talking at all on their phones. Eating food, playing with food, complaining about food. Over-dressed, under-dressed, working, not working, crying, laughing or default frowning. You will even see yourself walk past…oh wait that was a reflection in the cake display.
Photographer: Michael Daly
ars longa, vita brevis
Artist: Meaghan Shelton
Artist Location: IMBIL
Medium: Embroidery on victorian guest towel., 2019
Dimensions: 120 x 60 x 1 cm
Artist Statement:
Ars longa, vita brevis ( the life short, the craft long to learn ) references the diversity of materials that can be counted as valuable means for art making and also the diversity of experiences required to make a person whole. The vintage, hand crocheted guest towel was gifted to me when a friend’s parents had passed because ‘I would know what to do with it’. I utilise domestic crafting techniques as a form of activism. The work evidences innumerabl