TIDAL 2010: CITY OF DEVONPORT ART AWARD
Exhibition Dates: 4 December 2010 – 26 January 2011
Opening Friday December 3, 6pm
The Tidal award is hosted by the Devonport Regional Gallery and funded through the Devonport City Council and the DRG Friends Committee.
The national award is open to artists whose 2D work in any medium, represents a response to our contemporary relationship and connection to the sea, coastal regions and communities.
Tidal is now an acquisitive award with an increase in the Major Award from $10 000 to $15 000. There is a People’s Choice Award of $1 000.
$15,000 Major Award Recipient Matthew Newton, Moonbird boy 3.
$1,000 Peoples’ Choice Award Recipient Troy Ruffels, Bramble
2010 Finalists
Image: Christl Berg, Washed Up I, #5 (detail), 2010
Digital print on archival paper
Image: Jamie Boys, The Rock, 2009
Video still
Courtesy of the artist and Chrysalis Gallery & Studio, Melbourne
and Horus and Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney
Image: Dane Chisholm, Grounded Flying Triptych (detail), 2010
Inkjet print and pen
Image: Gabrielle Courtenay, Heed the Hesperides (detail), 2010
Acrylic, oil and chrome spray paint on Belgian linen
Courtesy of the artist and Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne
Image: Amanda Davies, Waverley Travel Rug (detail), 2010
Oil on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and Bett Gallery, Hobart
Image: Noah Grosz, Rocky II (detail), 2009
Inks, acrylic, enamels on board
Image: Jodi Heffernan, Noosa River Mangroves 1 (detail), 2010
Relief print on layered cotton and tulle
Image: Greer Honeywill, Exquisite Enticement #1 (detail), 2010
Type C photograph, Edition of 5
Courtesy of the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Image: Megan Keating, Working drawing for Early Morning (detail), 2010
Acrylic and mica on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Image: David-Ashley Kerr, I hear the Sea (detail), 2010
Light jet photographic print, Edition of 10
Image: Ed King, 1968 (detail), 2010
Mixed media
Image: Penny Malone, Ebb and Flow (detail), 2010
Diptych, hand printed pigment on linen and digital print on archival paper
Image: Mark McCarthy, Everything At Once Never Stops Moving (detail), 2008
Oil on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Image: Anne Morrison, Variant #1 (detail), 2010
Acrylic on linen
Courtesy of the artist and Despard Gallery, Hobart
Image: Harry Nankin, Syzygy 8/The Carina Volans Triptych (detail), 2010
Toned gelatin silver films (created by starlight)
Face-mounted on starfire glass with screen-printed circular masks on the opposite face
Courtesy of the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Image: Catherine O’Donnell, Nationwide (detail), 2010
Charcoal on paper
Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Image: Emidio Puglielli, Beach Holiday Disruption (detail), 2010
Type C Photograph, sandpapered with pinholes
Courtesy of the artist and Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
Image: Sally Rees, Flood (detail), 2010
Stills from video
Image: Troy Ruffels, Bramble (detail), 2010
Digital Print on aluminium
Courtesy of the artist and Bett Gallery, Hobart
$1,000 Peoples' Choice Award Recipient, 2010
Image: Tim Silver, Untitled (Nutmeg Coke can) [detail], 2009
100% cotton silver rag with archival inks, 5 works
From a series of sixteen
Courtesy of the artist and BREENSPACE, SydneyGary Smith, Under the Bridge, 2010
Acrylic and pigment on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and Artereal Gallery, Sydney
Image: Gary Smith, Under the Bridge, 2010
Acrylic and pigment on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and Artereal Gallery, Sydney
Image: Valerie Sparks, This weather #2 view 3 (detail), 2010
Pigment ink print on archival paper
Image: Paul Snell, Pulse # 201010 (detail), 2010
Unique Lambda Metallic Print face-mounted onto 8 mm plexiglass