Wyndham Art Prize People’s Choice

Dubbed ‘the Jewel of the Deep West’, the Wyndham Art Prize offers local and emerging artists the opportunity to display their work alongside experienced practitioners. The resulting works it attracts cover many mediums, from photography and sculpture to painting and even video art, with interest and submissions from serious artists around the world.

Following an impressive field of seventy-four entrants from around Australia, including ten from Wyndham, this year’s major prize went to Northcote-based artist Camille Hannah. As judged by Monash Museum of Modern Art curator Charlotte Day, Hannah’s work – a ‘reverse’ painting upon Perspex – was awarded first place, earning her the generous $10,000 prize and enabling her to travel to Germany to exhibit her work.

That’s not the only prize on offer, however. The People’s Choice Award offers a prize value of $2000, and is the public’s chance to view the works and have their say about what pieces resonate most, so they too can be celebrated.

Among the works on display are Carolyn Warren-Langford’s And Still I Rise, and Aria for Rising. Warren-Langford, from Point Cook, created these two pit-fired clay sculptures after finding herself inspired by the Maya Angelou poem Still I Rise.

In addition to the above prizes, Deakin University this year once again offered generous bursary opportunities for any artists pursuing post-graduate study – one more reason to get started on your artistic contribution for next year’s prize!

You can see the selected works on display at the Wyndham Art Gallery, Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm and weekends from 11am-4pm. Get along and choose your favourite today!

The works of the Wyndham Art Prize 2018 are currently on display at Wyndham Art Gallery, 177 Watton St Werribee. Voting for the Wyndham Art Prize 2018 People’s Choice Awards is open to the public until Sunday June 10.