2023 Bendigo Community Bank Port Lincoln Art Prize
The Port Lincoln Art Prize exhibition is an annual event open to all Australian residents. The Port Lincoln Art Prize provides a prestigious competition for the many artists who enter and the opportunity to have their efforts publicly acknowledged with the chance to win cash prizes.
The annual Port Lincoln Art Prize commenced in 2008 and has grown and developed into a significant award and exhibition for the region attracting artwork from Australia wide.
Entries are invited from local, South Australian and interstate artists, working in any 2D and 3D mediums other than photography.
Meet Our Judge
Rachel McElwee (pictured below), holds the position of Director at the Hahndorf Academy - an art gallery and heritage museum in Hahndorf, Adelaide. With a Masters Degree in Visual Arts, and experience working in the arts sector, Rachel’s passion is to support and encourage artists and to engage community.
MAJOR AWARD
Artist: Emma Fuss
Title: Small Box of Things
Statement: This painting was made for Painted Melodies, a collaborative project featuring local musicians and visual artists, for SALT Festival 2022. It is inspired by Jodi Martin’s beautiful song, Not Afraid Anymore. In the song, Jodi describes leaving her childhood home and embarking on a new life stage, and includes the line “hand me my guitar and my small bag of things”.
As my oldest child enters adolescence, I find myself imagining a time in the not-too-distant future when he too will leave home with a small bag of things… and I’m also reflecting on his early years and the collection of childhood things he will leave behind. These precious items, once so treasured by him, now sit in a cardboard box at the back of a store room shelf, largely forgotten by him... beautiful, ordinary items that evoke priceless memories of early motherhood for me.
RETIRE AUSTRALIA LOCAL ARTIST AWARD
Artist: Lea Jericho
Title: Sounds of the Rainbow
Statement: The sound is the first thing that captures your attention, and as you focus on the direction of where it comes from, there’s a flash of colour...
Bright red, yellow, orange, blue and green, travelling at speed. Up into the eucalypts, where the beautiful blossoms are flowering – there! You spot them –
Ever chattering, the beautiful Rainbow Lorikeet, so aptly named.
One wonders how they have time to eat, with their constant deafening chatter.
SCULPTURE AWARD
Artist: Martin Van Rooijen
Title: Music Lover 44
Statement: The latest sculpture in this 44 part series. The aim is to combine the human figure and the shape of the cello.
Contrast of wood is used to create interest.
Light wood - Huon Pine. Dark wood - Gum.
Straight and curved, rough and smooth.
The sculpture is carved out of a local railway sleeper.
PORT LINCOLN ROTARY CLUB YOUTH AWARD
Artist: Kobe Dodd
Title: The Chase
Statement: I am a Ngarrindjeri artist. Ngarrindjeri country is located near Murray Bridge in South Australia.
This painting shows a funny memory of me and my family being chased by emus in the Coffin Bay National Park. We were there to collect cockles to eat. Me, my brother and two friends went for a walk into the bushes and saw a baby emu and as we approached it we saw the father emu (who looks after the chicks) and then other emus chased us out of the bushes and we ran as fast as we could laughing and screaming. We were lucky we got a head start on them and we rushed back to the car. The emus gave up the chase once we were out of the bush area.
The complementary colour palette that I have used makes the colours stand out from each other and reflects the colours of the landscape in the National Park. I achieved perspective by making the circle patterns bigger at the front and going smaller to the back on the sand and in the ocean.
I added details to the bushes in the foreground of the painting to bring the focus to the emus and the story.
PORT LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL YOUTH HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARD
Artist: Jasmine Tiller
Title: Eyes
Statement: Most of these drawings were inspired by the eyes of my family members. I spend a lot of time on the iris, and I really enjoy the challenge of creating the unique colours and patterns in each eye. I also really like how the reflection in the eyes can tell a story of their own.
MERIT AWARD
Artist: Mark Richards
Title: Jellyfish
Statement: Always had to check before jumping in the water at the Port Lincoln jetty incase there were jellyfish.
MERIT AWARD
Artist: Elizabeth Hammond
Title: Making the Best of Things
Statement: This painting reflects on the difficult times people have had to face, in particular Covid, where inside became so very important. What did you have to sustain you during this time? For some it was making things or being engrossed in their passion. The glimpse of the outside environment represents how important nature is to us all, and the shape of the rooms with its partial opening of space reminds us of a future “Opening up”.
MERIT AWARD
Artist: Sharlisha Roderick-Varcoe
Title: Sister and Brothers
Statement: The two concentric shapes in the centre of the painting represent the females in my family, my sister and me. We have a very strong connection. The semi circles around the outside show my seven brothers. The yellow represents the sand at the beach where my family spends lots of time together.
Brenton Bailey, Myth: It's Only Abuse if it's Violent, $2200
Julie Chung, Days End - Life Drawing, $290
Cait Wait, Ancient Coastline, Elliston, SA, $2200
Lottie Rosenzweig, Pincushion, $950
Leith O'Malley, Imagination V Distraction, $1,400
Renata Rozenbilds, Saltbush and it's Understory, $360
Natasha Parenta, Red Sky at Night, $3,800
Ingrid Stewart, Lily & Penelope, $1395 & $1575 respectively
Natasha Parenta, Infinite, $450
Karina Elson, The Mystique of Africa, $350
Annabel Ornsby, English Summer Day, $250
Ruby Woolford, On the Murray River, $500
Peter Surguy, Ord, $1250
Sherrie Jones, Eucalyptus in the Wind, $3400
Mark Richards, Escape from School, $1100
Cheryl-Anne Brown, Blue Water, $3400
Sarah Stevens, My Place, $4000
Cathy Bury, Gratitude, $600
Cara Frost-Krieg, Seasons of Self, $POA
Naoko Suguro-Keane, It All Began, $700
Sue Catt, Broken, $995
Peter Surguy, Cracked, $2700
Vicki Sanderson, Raptor, $3125
Lily Martin, Thinking Outside the Bowl, $250
Ros Hood, What?, $500
Roxanne Prime, Stare Off, $800
Sally Kunze, Nullarbor, $2000
Christine Tschuna, Lake McDonnel, $4287
Yvonne Geelen, Urban Storm, $400
Jane Morris, Up Close and Personal, $850
Donna Legovini, Cactus Queen, $2000
OM, Sea Scarf, $250
Sandy Harder, Night Geraniums, $690
Dave Trengove, One Last Look, $1500
Susan Tingay, The Fishing Party, $2400
Elle Freeman, Still Nude Study, $700
Rebecca Palmer, Sheep, SOLD
Susanne Beaucaris, Feuillage et Fleurs, $500
Sharon Gilmore, Ocean Blues, $1950
Cara Frost-Krieg, Dynamic Sameness, $POA
Huey Hood, Summer at Greenly, $POA
Eliza Abley, #Camplife & Cuddle Cat, SOLD
Bob Ramsay, Louth Bay Rocks #1, $2000
Steven Andrews, The Prayer, $1950
Yvonne Geelen, Walking in the Rain, $400
Henri Jenkins, Speechless, $800
Rebecca Palmer, Sir Lincoln Parrot, $280
Donna Legovini, Bleached Coral, Cactus, Crane, $2000
Julie Aldridge, Succulent Sundae, $690
Jessica Donovan, Treasure Trove, $440
Lou Barker, Past Times, $500
Sam Smale, The Dot, $300
Jason Mannering, Cryptic Eclipse, $230
Niccy Pallant, Solitude Drive, $400
Vicki Bosisto, Gawler Ranges, $2000
Julie Aldridge, Sunset Snack, $890
Amanda Sampson, My Little Circus, $1000
Mechelle Dutschke, Port Lincoln Wharf, $750
Cris Atkinson, Susan, Frankie & Big Boy, $250
Sharon Gilmore, Gossiping Terns, $1950
Grace Ramsay, Yin & Yang, SOLD
Jade Valladares, Ayana, SOLD
Sally Kunze, Pinnacles, $2000
Jane Andrew, Dreaming of Summer, $220
Cara Archer, Xylocopa (Lestis) Aeratus, $1330
Jane Morris, Grace, $850
Hannah Goldfinch, Greenly Rock Pools, $1200
Clare Hooper, My Places in Drummoyne Looking Out, $295
Sky McNamara, Bubbles, $50
Todd Romanowycz, Banksias, $2900
INEZ, Universal Grief, $330
Lucas Retallick, Emu Family, $160
Janet Raleigh, Strings Attached I & II, $185
Bella Symons, Fishin' at Snapper Rocks, $POA
Vanessa Sumner, Born of the Sea, $385
Cheryl-Anne Brown, In the Garden of Tomorrow, $2800
Laura Phillis, Beach on Eyre, $1000
Sandra Ornsby, Can You Sea Me?, $1000
Susan Tingay, Floodtide in the Paperbarks, $2400
Hannah Goldfinch, Billy, $800
Robyn Granger, Harvest, $180
Sky Keane, Innocent, $250