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10/04/2022

Material Prize – a) oil/acrylic

Winner: Terry MacDermot, Blah Blah Blah, mixed media, 54 x 103cm

1 Under dim grey skies and a pale white sun is a black layer of buildings overhung with electricity wires. Under them is a red layer and below that, a grey layer marred with grey dribbles origininating from the damaged red layer.

2 A continuation of the bleak landscape to its left.

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Material Prize – b) encaustic/mixed media

Winner: Bev Bills, The sky is the limit, encaustic, 40 x 50cm

Framed and mounted image made with different materials showing a tree and hill and a secret layer in the ground beneath them.

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Material Prize – c) works on paper: water colour, pastel, print and drawing

Winner: Diana Bradshaw, Life Within, watercolour & pastel, 105 x 84cm

Mounted acrylic image showing a stylized forest of thin tall trees on a slope leading down to a river's edge.

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Material Prize – d) photography, videos & installations.

Winner: Mark Standerwick, Progress, photography 30 x 80cm

Thin wide photograph of a patch of cleared land on a sunny day, with a modified earthmover pointing towards a pile of trees is has just felled.

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Material Prize – e) textiles/3D/ recycled/books & others

Winner: Zara Zannettino, Absurd Birds, textile, 53 x 153cm

Sewn picture shows two birds with floppy crests, sharp beaks, bald blue faces with spots on their cheeks, floppy red growths over their noses covering the front of their cheeks, feathers like drooping collars, and dots on their fat round feathered bodies. One bird faces the front but its eyes are focused to the side; the other bird faces the side. The background is lines of sewn blue and yellow to signify sky and clouds.

Sewn picture shows same sort of absurd looking birds as the first picture, but this time there are 3 of them, one bent looking enquiringly to the side and the other two with their heads up looking the other way.

Final image of the strange looking birds. There are two birds, one looking forwards as if surprised, the other looking the the right as if a bit annoyed.

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Aussie Animal Sanctuary Prize

The Aussie Animal Sanctuary Prize in the 2022 Solar Art Prize was won by Margaret Thomas for her two works.

(1) There’s plenty more plastic in the sea mixed media 160 x 67

Hanging net traps about 28 fish made from colourful plastic food packets which Margaret stated at the presentation were all consumed by her.

(2) Steve Wright – 1000 Trees mixed media gum leaf, watercolour, 60 x 47cm

Paper cut out of man wearing jeans and standing with his arms crossed, stuck on a large gum leaf, ove a sketch of bushland featuring trees, inset into cardboard mount and frame.

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Merit Awards

There were 3 Merit Awards in the 2022 Solar Art Prize and winners received $3,000 vouchers each for Natural Technology Systems Products

Carol Bann: Dry River Bed, coloured pencil, 69 x 86cm

Tricia Ross: Vanitas for a changing world, wet plate collodian photography, 41 x 35.5cm

Hadley Johnson: Housing Crisis, clay & found rubbish (on net)

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Honorary mentions

Honorary Mention in the 2022 Solar Art Prize: Janet Makaev: Down at the dam: pobble book spawn, giglee print 70 x 50cm

Honorary Mention in the 2022 Solar Art Prize: Paul Whitehead: Climate refugees, photography, 40 x 120cm

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$66,000 prizes announced in 13th Solar Art Prize

Painting of man in hat and suit and tie with cigarette dangling from mouth leaving dusty flat earth with a rusty windmill lying broken on the ground — Overall Winner of 12th Solar Art Prize: Man Leaving the Land and Windmill by Elizabeth Doidge

Solar art prize entries due 18 February 2022

Pip Fletcher has once again funded the non-acquisitive annual South Australian Solar Art Prize, with prizes being vouchers for solar products.

Artists in any medium are welcome to submit art relevant to climate change, nature and the environment.

Entries close 18 February 2022 and winners will be announced 9 April 2022 at the Royal South Australian Society for the Arts.

Prize details and entry forms are at https://solarartprize.com/2021-solar-art-prize-entry-form-and-conditions/.

As Pip says, “The urgency of reducing carbon emissions can no longer wait on government, foreign powers or anyone else to take their fair share of responsibility. We must do what we can – NOW.“

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Winners of the 12th Solar Art Prize

We are delighted to announce this year’s winners. Due to a technicality, we are not able to post images of the winning artworks at this time, but we are working on it! We also may need to correct some of the spelling. We hope this bare-bones announcement will suffice in the meantime.

The judges commented that it was such a strong exhibition, they awarded two extra prizes.

Overall prize

Elizabeth Doidge with Man Leaving the Land and Windmill

Second overall prize

Paul Whitehead with Australia: The Cracks Are Showing

Section 1 – Climate Change – results and causes OR People who harm the environment

First prize

Pamela Ilert with Oceans of Plastic

Second prize

Tony Catalano with Exploitation

Section 2– People who help the environment

Iroda Adil with Robin (sustainable farmer)

Section 3 – Natural Environment – Endangered or wild fauna or flora in land or seascape

First prize

David Braun with Once Proud and Tall

Second prize

Maiko Pettman with Whispers from a Forest, A, B and C

4 Merit Prizes

David Baker with Thread of Life

Carole Bann with Abundance

Jan Makaev with Foot Valve

Margaret Thomas with Plastic Spoons/Spoons Never Die

Hangers’ Prize

Iroda Adil with Robin (sustainable farmer)

Aussie Animal Sanctuary Prizes

Jing Wei Bu with Installation with Video of Reef

Hadley Johnson with End of the Line