VAN SOWERWINE: WINNER OF THE PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND’S NATIONAL NEW MEDIA ART AWARD 2010

Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award 2010
28 August - 7 November 2010 | Gallery 2.1, GoMA, Brisbane Queensland

Stills Gallery would like to announce and congratulate Van Sowerwine & Isobel Knowles, winners of the 2010 Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award. The Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award is Australia’s most significant prize for new media art.

The winning entry You Were In My Dream 2010 is a playful work that offers a rare combination of interactivity, narrative and nostalgia... It is wonderful to see a new media work that comments so succinctly on 21st century participatory culture by making the screen so tactile. The work of Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine invites the individual into a dreamlike narrative realm. This is a work that will delight audiences of all ages.

The two-part award involves a $75 000 prize for the winning art work, which then becomes part of the Queensland Art Gallery's Collection; and a $25 000 scholarship, presented to an emerging Queensland new media artist.

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CARNIVAL AT LAKE MACQUARIE CITY ART GALLERY

19 November - 16 January 2011
This exhibition draws on a broad range of contemporary Australian artists including Stills artist Tim Georgeson to consider the mythologies, and the realities, of the carnival experience. While Carnival is about pageant, the exotic, and the thrills of show day, it also explores the politics of race and difference. Fear of the other and racial prejudice have always been subtexts of the phenomena of ‘freak shows’ and brutal contests.

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SYDNEY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL ARTS PROGRAM, RANDWICK

9 December - 28 January 2011
Sydney Children’s Hospital will be exhibiting the works of Narelle Autio & Polixeni Papapetrou. Works featured will include that of Autio’s Summer of Us & Watercolours series and works from Polixeni’s Between Worlds series. The exhibition will be opened by the NSW Minister for Health The Hon. Carmel Tebbutt and will be located in the hospital’s artspace one, located on level one.

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