The Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize 2023 exhibition is under way at the Adelaide Festival Centre until 7 May 2023.
The exhibition opening night and prize-giving was held on Friday 24 March 2023.
See details here: www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/blog/2023/3/25/winning-park-lands-artistry
2018 Art Prize recap
After successful events in 2014, 2016, and 2018, the fourth biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize was hit by the world-wide pandemic caused by the coronavirus COVID-19.
Prize money for the 2020 Art Prize was $38,500 in total, including a first prize of $20,000, a young artist’s prize of $2,000 and ten commendation prizes of $1,500 each. When entries closed at 8pm on 31 January 2020 a total of 352 had been received. Judges sorted through all the entries and on 1 March 2020, announced the list of 77 art works (from 73 artists) to be exhibited as finalists.
The exhibition of finalists at the Festival Centre was originally scheduled to run throughout April and May 2020. However, due to COVID-19, the Festival Centre closed in March 2020 forcing the postponement of our planned opening night and exhibition.
The Festival Centre was re-booked for an opening and exhibition commencing on 3 December 2020. However in October 2020 the Festival Centre advised it would not be able to accommodate the event at that time.
Alternative arrangements were pursued, in consultation with artists. The judging, and exhibition was eventually held at the Festival Centre from mid to late March 2021, until early May 2021.
The overall winner was Dan Withey for his painting “The Parklands and the Hungry Developer”
See the list of prize winners from the 2020 Park Lands Art Prize here: https://parklandsart.com/events/adelaide-park-lands-art-prize-winners/
For regular updates, follow the Park Lands Art Prize Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/parklandsart/
2018 Art Prize recap
$20,000 first prize winner of the 2018 Park Lands Art Prize - Christopher Meadows "Spheres and Reflections" - oil on canvas
In 2018, the winner of the $2,000 youth artist category was 19-year-old Darcy Lewis for "A Rise in Adelaide’s Eastern Suburbs"
The ten highly commended prizewinners ($1,000 each) were:
Madeline Prowd - "Eucalytpus Trio"
Peter Walker - "Twigonometry"
Roger Buddle - "Winter Fungi"
Graham Davis -"Adam Encounters The Fingers of Light"
Laura Wills - "Liquid Gold Harvest"
Sally Parnis - "Summer Solstice 2017: Drawing the Adelaide Parklands"
Daryl Austin - "Pakapakanthi / Victoria Park (Between a Dog and a Wolf)"
Taya Stocks - "Purple Swamphen, Parkland’s Royalty"
Jan Cleveringa - "The Meeting Point"
Ellen Trevorrow, Bruce Trevorrow & Jelina Haines "Ngori (Pelican)"
