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The 2022 Art Unlimited exhibition will be held in Dunedoo on 21/22 May and 28/29 May 2022.

The exhibition will be open 9:30am - 4pm (3pm Sunday 29th )

$5 entry pp at the door.

Prizes for Art Unlimited 2022 include:
Peabody Wilpinjong Prize for Hanging Art – $3000
Res Power for Good Photography Prize – $3000
Art Unlimited Ceramics Prize – $3000
Dunedoo Rural Hardware People’s Choice Prize – $500
ABC Western Plains Prize - $300 value voucher
Deutscher Contracting Packing Room Prize - $250
The Janace Holmes Family Memorial Prize – $250

2022 Winning Artworks

Peabody Wilpinjong Hanging Art Prize – Rod Spicer “At Strike-a-Light (Property)"

LIZZY GALLOWAY – HANGING ART JUDGE
This is a beautifully executed landscape which highlights the artist's confident use of oil paint, varnish and palette knives. There is an underlying understanding and love for the Australian countryside by the artist which confidently captures the dirt road, rocky outcrop and lone farmer as he mends his fence. I was drawn to the Australian impressionist style and nod to Tom Robert's use of blue and golden hues as well as the seamless integration of the foreground through to the skyline.

RES Photography Prize – Kate Barclay, Canowindra “Hibiscus Ballet”

JUDE MORRELL – PHOTOGRAPHY JUDGE
A brilliantly moving, still image. This photograph is mesmerising in its beauty.
The composition, spacial considerations and monochrome tones add to its subtle sense of movement and flight. The image helps to provide a contemporary emblem to nature on a precipice, with its grace and fragility.

Art Unlimited Ceramics Prize – Susie McMeekin “Snow on basalt vase”

PETER WILSON – CERAMICS JUDGE
I developed a range of criteria upon which to base my aesthetic decisions, ie, form and surface harmony/resolution, complexity and uniqueness, technical facility/craft skills.
This vase shows a strong resolution of form and glaze. The combination of iron and Chun glazes is striking in that it highlights the colour variation in the glaze as it falls across the pot’s shoulder.

Janace Holmes Family Memorial Prize – Geraldine Taylor “Dawn Guardian”

ABC Western Plains Prize – Merren Turnbull, Bourke “Run for Your Money”

LIZZY GALLOWAY – HANGING ART JUDGE
This is a lovely depiction of a spectacular outback Australian sunset. The artist has competently used the pastels to create the beautiful colours of an enormous sky which dwarfs the foreground goat as they're urgently herded into the livestock truck in the remains of the day.

Deutscher Contracting Packing Room Prize – Pauline Welfare “Dragon Fly Pot”

Hanging Art Highly Commended – Don Talintyre “Country Link”

LIZZY GALLOWAY – HANGING ART JUDGE
I was intrigued by the cinematic quality of this work. If you remove the train from the narrative, the scene depicted with the old railway station, its large chimney and the identifiable traveller could have been set 100 years ago. I particularly like how the artist has captured the colours of the Australian sky at dusk.

Hanging Art Highly Commended – Eugenia Dunlevie “Approaching Storm”

LIZZY GALLOWAY – HANGING ART JUDGE
There is a beautiful energy and intensity in both of works in this small diptych. The skies have been confidently painted and really create a moody, wild Australian landscape with a very strong understanding of composition.

Hanging Art Highly Commended – Jaymee Hyland “Isaac”

LIZZY GALLOWAY – HANGING ART JUDGE
This is a really strong portrait. The artist has captured the challenging, proud, almost intimidating gaze of the sitter with restrained, yet confident brush work. The black background further complements the detailed rendering of the head dress and beard.

Photography Highly Commended – Lise Edwards “Portrait in Clay”

JUDE MORRELL – PHOTOGRAPHY JUDGE
Eerily poignant, this image portrays both a gentle humanity and a slightly disturbing otherness to it. The long vertical format encloses and compounds the intensity of the image, adding to its strength with good use of lighting providing some mysterious dark spaces.

Photography Highly Commended - Lorraine King “Bawi-li Dhunbarrbila-li dhuwarr”

JUDE MORRELL – PHOTOGRAPHY JUDGE
This beautiful triptych shows a powerful indigenous connection to land and country.
The collecting of seeds in these photographs is gently portrayed by the interplay between the images. The first two images are sensitive and delicate, with subtle use of colour and a beautiful feeling throughout. The last one completes the story on a more dramatic note with the blowing of the seeds to the wind.

Photography Highly Commended – Andrew Batey “Desert Illumination

JUDE MORRELL – PHOTOGRAPHY JUDGE
A stunning and immersive landscape photograph showing the majesty of the open sky at night. An immensely powerful image that could almost take us back to the beginning of time on our planet. And curious, as we do actually look back into time staring into its luminous space. Poetic, powerful and wondrous.

Ceramics Highly Commended – Pamela Welsh “The Princess and the Glass Piano 1”

PETER WILSON – CERAMICS JUDGE
This sculptural piece shows uniqueness and well-developed craft skills in its execution. There is clearly a quirky creativity at play which hints at a range of possible narratives.

Ceramics Highly Commended – Geoff Thomas “Anagama Jar”

PETER WILSON – CERAMICS JUDGE
This large jar highlights the range of subtle and nuanced effects of a wood-fired surface. It shows the flame path of the fire and the resultant glazes as formed by the wood ash deposition. Thomas has created a virtual symphony of effects on the surface of this pot.

Ceramics Highly Commended - Anne Mossman “Raining Celebrations”

PETER WILSON – CERAMICS JUDGE
This piece demonstrates the intricate and complex manipulation of coloured porcelain slips joined into a vessel to create designed and patterned surfaces.

Katherine Close - Wedge Tail Eagle in the Pilliga .jpg

Dunedoo Rural Hardware People's Choice Prize - Katherine Close, Binnaway "Wedge Tail Eagle in the Pilliga"

MID-NORTH COAST ARTIST WINS MAJOR REGIONAL ART PRIZE

Mid-North Coast artist Rod Spicer has won the $3000 Peabody Wilpinjong Prize for Hanging Art at Art Unlimited which opened at Dunedoo in the Central West of NSW last Friday.

Rod’s oil painting “At Strike-a-Light (Property)” was chosen from 200 works by judge Lizzy Galloway, Gallery Curator at Mudgee Art Precinct. She described the work as “a beautifully executed landscape which highlights the artist’s confident use of oil paint, varnish and palette knives”.

Peabody Wilpinjong Hanging Art Prize – Rod Spicer “At Strike-a-Light (Property)”

Highly Commended – Don Talintyre “Country Link”; Eugenia Dunlevie “Approaching Storm”; Jaymee Hyland “Isaac”

RES Photography Prize – Kate Barclay “Hibiscus Ballet”

Highly Commended – Andrew Batey “Desert Illumination”; Lorraine King “Bawi-li Dhunbarrbila-li dhuwarr”; Lise Edwards “Portrait in Clay”

Art Unlimited Ceramics Prize – Susie McMeekin “Snow on basalt vase”

Highly Commended – Geoff Thomas “Anagama Jar”; Anne Mossman “Raining Celebrations”; Pamela Welsh “The Princess and the Glass Piano 1”

ABC Western Plains Prize – Merren Turnbull “Run for Your Money”

Deutscher Contracting Packing Room Prize – Pauline Welfare “Dragon Fly Pot”

Janace Holmes Family Memorial Prize – Geraldine Taylor “Dawn Guardian”

2022 Exhibition 21-22 & 28-29 May
9:30am - 4pm (3pm Sunday 29th)

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