Flinders Community Art Show 2024 Award Winners

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.