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2018 Finalists

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6156" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Biljana Jancic is a Sydney-based artist who primarily works site-specifically to produce large scale sculptural interventions. These works respond to the context, architecture and atmosphere of the host site. They articulate and highlight architectural features

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6157" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Vincent Namatjira is a young dynamic artist whose works are loose and bold in their painterly construction, equally they are conceptually rich and diverse. He was a John Fries Award Finalist in 2013. Grandson to

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6158" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Ben Ward was born on Argyle Station where his half-Mirriwoong, half-Afghan father worked as a stockman. He is a senior cultural custodian of the Miriwoong people. Ben was recently named as one of three

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6159" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Tully’s work poetically interprets the intangible relationships we have with everyday items and illuminates new ways of thinking and interacting with the world around us. He explores the subtle, almost alchemical, alteration of everyday objects,

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6160" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Georgie Roxby Smith works across a range of disciplines exploring new pathways between virtual and physical worlds. Her works explore the increasingly blurred border between identity, materiality, reality, virtuality and fantasy in contemporary culture and

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6163" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Based in Auckland New Zealand, Kenneth’s studio practice moves between drawing, painting, and analogue/digital media. Through image making, he seeks to convey perspectives that form a basis for a type of visual thinking, underpinned

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6161" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Working across a range of media including installation, sound, video and sculpture, Tim Bruniges’ artistic practice centres on creating works that explore notions of perception, the fallibility of memory and our relationship with time. Often

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6162" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Archie’s practice includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation, photographs, audio, video and more recently, embeds themes of Aboriginal politics as well as broader issues concerning racism, language, identity and interpersonal relationships. Archie is also very musical

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6164" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Erin is a Perth-based artist who works with video, drawing and sculpture, often combining these elements to make immersive or interactive installations. She is interested in built environments and, by using ideas drawn from

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6165" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Will French was born in Melbourne and spent his childhood in Korea and Indonesia. Will has a multi-disciplinary art practice and his work carries a common thread of a wry humour and playfulness. Addressing the

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6166" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Leo Coyte is a Sydney-based painter whose recent work merges realistic, semi-figurative objects and bodies with abstract bursts of colour to create a kind of celebratory irreverence. He mines bits and pieces of various

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation="no" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="6167" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Darcell Apelu is a mixed-medium artist of New Zealand, European and Niuean decent. Her art practice involves moving image, sound, performance and installation and often she uses her own body and the act of