Award
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(Peter Smales) |
Prize Value |
Best Painting in the Show (Acquisitive)
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"A highly stylised but evocative view of Bridgewater Bay, Sorrento, sensitive and subtle use of colour." |
$5,000 |
Best Oil Painting
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"A strong composition, a lesson in perspective with an extraordinary technical skill. A pleasing balance of warm and cool colours." |
$750 |
Best Pastel/Acrylic Painting
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"The picture strikes a balance between modelling form and energetic rhythmical line." |
$750 |
Best Watercolour Painting
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"Light and movement in simple clean washes – the charm of watercolour." |
$750 |
Best Contemporary Painting, any medium
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"While this painting obviously displays spatial recession, it has strongly decorative and two dimensional qualities – a high horizon and flat pattern-like mark making and rich colour harmonies." |
$500 |
Best Painting to the value of $1000, any medium
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"Illusionistic realism - there is exquisite detail in this difficult, one-way medium." |
$500 |
Best Painting to the value of $800, any medium
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"A rich, loose and free rendering in pastel allowing the process and medium to jostle and spar with the subject matter." |
$500 |
Best Painting to the value of $700, any medium
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"An ambitious undertaking handled with great skill to achieve a penetrating and unified portrait." |
$500 |
Popular choice
'Innocence' by Joanne Morris |
$200 Voucher from Bayside Studio of Art |