Flinders Community Art Show a Resounding Success!
November 20, 2024
We are pleased to show you the Prize winners for the 2024 Flinders Community Art Show
Flinders Art Show Prize
Dominic White
Imprinted Land 1, 2020
Based on Boon Wurrung/Bunurong Country of the Mornington Peninsula, Dominic White is a Palawa man, descendant of the Trawoolaway of Lutruwita (Tasmania), through his birth mother’s family. Adopted into a Mornington Peninsula family, White’s art has been following a process of reclamation of his heritage for 20 + years. Trained as a printmaker at Monash and ANU, his work spans printmaking, sculpture, photography, ceramics and contemporary jewellery.
Dominic White with MPRG Director Dunja Rmandic Image: Garry Sissons
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Charles Kiefel AM Sculpture Prize
Lynne Bechervaise
Seeking Safer Home – Cement fondue, wire, timber
Lynne’s work represents an artistic life deeply ingrained in the natural & spiritual world. Her sculpture is layered with meaning & creates an emotional connection to those who own one of her lovely totem, critter or boat works.
Inaugural sculpture prize winner, Lynne Bechervaise and Charles Kiefel AM
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Flinders Community Association Prize & Vescape Packing Room Prize
Liz Walker
The party’s over – Recycled copper
Collecting, repurposing and extending the material possibilities of natural ephemera, found detritus and recycled domestic objects play a key role in a practice investigating contemporary social and environmental concerns. Liz uses an extensive range of resources gathered from around the inner city and rural sites to construct sculpture, assemblage, installations and ephemeral site-specific responses to people, time and place.
Liz Walker with Dunja Rmandic Image: Garry Sissons
Liz Walkers winning sculpture: The party’s over
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Higgins Family Small Work Prize
Ben Winspear
Clearing showers – Oil on linen
Ben’s two loves are the portrait/figure and the Australian landscape and regularly paints both from life, often painting from the back of his car en route to teach classes or a workshop. Passing on his knowledge to those who attend his classes and workshops is Ben’s other passion. He seeks to ground students solidly in the traditions of observational drawing and painting with an informed use of quality materials.
Image – Supplied
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Hugh Gallery Prize
Robert Torii
Landscape #1 – Oil on canvas
Robert is a semi-retired architect now living on the Peninsula having started painting with oils about 15 years ago.
Using landscape as a motif, he is interested in exploring the interface between the figurative and the abstract.
Apart from the traditional paint medium, Robert is also experimenting with CG imagery depicting augmented scenes of the built environment.
Robert is thrilled to have won the Hugh Gallery Prize with his work, Landscape I, being the first time he has exhibited.
Image Supplied
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Flinders General Store Prize
Alistair Fowler
Dancing Pete – Ceramic
Alistair is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm & Dja Dja Warrung country. Inspired by the natural world
Alistair Fowler with Flinders Art Show judge, MPRG Director, Dunja Rmandic
Dancing Pete – Image suppled
Alistair Fowler with Flinders Art Show judge, MPRG Director, Dunja Rmandic
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Marshall White Prize
David Zmood
Echeveria zorro – watercolour
David is a botanical artist who grew up on the Mornington Peninsula. He uses pencil and watercolour to capture the drama of nature, particularly the play of light and shadow over the subject. David finds art therapeutic, helping him to stay connected to nature.
