07/07/2024
Congratulations to the winner of The Gold Award 2024, Rosella Namok for 'Old Gals Yarnin' I - III' and recipient of the $50,000 acquisitive prize made possible by the generous bequest of philanthropist Moya Gold.
Guest Judge Godwin Bradbeer said: "Rosella's paintings possess a commanding power and grandeur. I suspect that they strike out at a tangent from her inherited traditions. Nonetheless they are a potent acknowledgement of specific place and landscape rendered anew within her finger line technique as palpable, tactile and most evidently monumental. These works have a presence that overrides the convention of descriptive image making".
Bradbeer also gave a Special Commendation to 'The sun never sets; so we daydream II' by Ryan Presley.
A huge congratulations and thanks to The Gold Award 2024 artists Pat Hoffie, John Honeywill, Jumaadi, Tjungkara Ken, Ryan Presley, Gareth Sansom, and Louise Tuckwell for their superb works.
‘The Gold Award 2024’ showing until 8 September 2024.
Image: Rosella Namok, Aangkum (Ungkum), b.1979 Lockhart River, QLD, 'Old Gals Yarnin' I - III' 2023, acrylic on canvas. Images courtesy of the artist and FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane.
