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March 28, 2008
The Wynne Prize is awarded to what the judges consider to be the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours, or for the best example of figure sculpture by an Australian artist. What is the connection between figure sculpture and landscape painting by the way?
The winner in 2008 is:
Joanne Currie Nalingu The river is calm
This is indigenous art that mediates between the traditional indigenous landscape and New York style minimalism and the abstracted landscape. I cannot evaluate it in relation to the other finalists as the NSW Gallery does not put them online for us to see. You have to be in Sydney to see them. This assumption that Sydney is Australia leaves me in the position of not knowing what kind of work Christian Lock and Julie Harris---or any of the other finalists--- have produced.
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