This week began with the announcement of the 2013 annual Border Art Prize for artworks of any medium by artists living and working in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales. John Cottrell of Byron Bay was awarded $3000 for his winning abstract painting Maelstrom Manadala. Steven Frost of Currumbin won second prize for his three-minute video work Requiem for childhood and third prize was awarded Filthy the Bear of Palm Beach for their painting titled Yogi- Titan of Eternia.
Artists working in the Northern Territory were also celebrated this week with Aly De Groot named as the winner of the $15, 000 Togart Contemporary Art Award. De Groot’s mixed media work, Lucky – The Patron Saint for All Things Protected was commended by the judges Fiona Salmon and Lisa Slade for its ‘combination of whimsy, potency and material resolution’.
