HEYSEN PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE 2024
HEYSEN PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE –ACQUISITIVE $15,000
PEOPLE’S CHOICE PRIZE – NON-ACQUISITIVE $1,000
A contemporary art prize established in 1997 to commemorate the life and work of the internationally renowned, artist, Sir Hans Heysen (1877-1968). It is a biennial event celebrating emerging, mid-career and established artists and their connection to landscape and place. The word 'landscape' includes all possible aspects of the natural, rural, and urban landscape.
ENTRY FORMS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM APRIL 30, 2024.
OPEN FOR ENTRIES - APRIL 30, 2024
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES - AUGUST 30, 2024
NOTIFICATION OF FINALISTS - SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
EXHIBITION DATES - NOVEMBER 23, 2024 - JANUARY 26, 2025
Heysen Prize for Landscape 2022
WINNER
CARA-ANN SIMPSON
narratio regenerationis (the narrative of rebirth) 2022, video
Acacia are soil nitrogen-fixers, and in my region, they are often the first trees to re-establish growth in disturbed landscapes. Living short, essential lives, acacia enrich soil, creating opportunities for endemic species to flourish. Celebrating landscape regeneration, this work pays homage to the role acacia’s play in Australia’s ecosystems. This work is an extension of “Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers)” transitioning into moving image. The work incorporates an aural field recording and its spectrograph analysis from my family’s property where this Queensland Silver Wattle (acacia podalyrifolia) came from.
My practice engages with sensory perception and environmental interaction. Developing strong connections to land and the environment, I often draw upon the sonic landscape and its visualisation. My home, on the lands of the Jarowair people of the Wakka Wakka nation, inform my practice. This, alongside my personal exploration of sensory immersion and experimentation, is shaped by my journey living with disability.
https://www.instagram.com/caraannsimpson/
https://caraannsimpson.com/
Highly Commended
DEBORAH PRIOR, HARRIET GEATER-JOHNSON, JOANNA GAMBOTTO, FRAN CALLEN, EVIE ADASAL, CHRIS DE ROSA
Finalists
Evie Adasal, Nicole Ayliffe, Javier Baez Bonorat, Peter Barrien, Georgina Bowden, David Braun, Jenn Brazier, Liz Butler, Fran Callen, Christine Cholewa, Elizabeth Close, Emilio Cresciani, Tipuamantumirri Delores, Vicky Dennison, Chris De Rosa, Mirjana Dobson, Erica Elgin, Louise Ernestine Anders, Louise Flaherty, Louise Foletta, Laurie Franklin, Joanne Gambotto, Harriet Geater-Johnson, Anna Glynn, Agnieszka Golda, Tim Gregory, Alexandra Hirst, Gail Hocking, Matthew Hughes, Lea Kannar- Lichtenberger, Ben Kelly, Monica Klimentenok, Terry MaDermot, Rebecca McEwan, Cristina Metelli, Alison Mitchell, Sam Oster, Pamela Pauline, Emma Perry, Jo Michelle Piper, Shirley Ploog, Deborah Prior, Paul Quick, Margarita Sampson, Leigh Schoenheimer, Cynthia Schwertsik, Cara-Ann Simpson, Dave Sparkes, Sandra Starkey Simon, Jemma Thomas, Simplicia Tipungwuti, Joel Tonks, Datsun Tran, Amanda Twyford , Annette Vincent, Dawn Walker, Mike Wall, Adrianna Wasinska, Roland Weight, Lauren Weir, Amanda Westley, Lyn Wood, Emma Young.
Partners
Peter Heysen - Hans Heysen Foundation
Wendy Willow
Judges
Erin Davidson
Erin Davidson holds the position of Project Manager at the Art Gallery of South Australia and is responsible for delivering two of the country’s major biennial programs celebrating contemporary art and artists, the Ramsay Art Prize and the Adelaide Biennial Australian Art. Over the last decade, she has worked with South Australian cultural institutions and organisations in various roles.
Sera Waters
Sera Waters is an artist living on Kaurna Country, South Australia. In 2016 Waters won the Heysen prize for Landscape with the work ‘Fritz and the Rose Garden’. Most recently Waters has exhibited in the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State at Art Gallery of South Australia (curated by Sebastian Goldspink). Waters is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery.
Heysen Prize for Landscape 2020
WINNER $20,000 acquisitive
MANYITJANU LENNON
Mamungari 'nya, Acrylic on Belgian linen
Manyitjanu Lennon often paints her mother’s country west of Kaltjiti and south of Watarru.
As Manyitjanu describes the country, “This is Mamungari’nya. The place Mamungari’nya is a long way away. It is over the other side of the sand dunes past Tipilnga. The place where many white trees are growing, many white marble gums.
The place where women came and turned into the white marble gums on the sand dune south of Watarru; this is a Tjukurpa story. This is Mamungari’nya where lots of little gum saplings and emu bush grow. This is a place of claypans.’ This is a women's site south west of Watarru.
Manyitjanu Lennon is a senior aboriginal elder who holds extensive cultural knowledge. She lives at *Watinuma Community and works with the Kaltjiti Arts Centre. Originally she was from the north of Watarru around Aralya and Kunytjanu. This is her mother's country. Like many people of her era, Manyitjanu was born in the desert when her family were walking around, living a traditional nomadic life.
Watinuma Community is located in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north west of South Australia.
Represented by Kaltjiti Arts Centre
HIGHLY COMMENDED
PETER WALKER
FINALISTS
Christopher Armstrong, Louise Ashmore, Karima Baadilla, Danielle Barrie, Nerida Bell, Alice Blanch, Tom Borgas, David Braun, Jenn Brazier, Gemma Rose Brook, Nyunmiti Burton, Liz Butler, Fran Callen, David Carswell, Sum Chow, Elizabeth Close, Jason Cordero, Charmaine Davis, Vicky Dennison, Bailey Donovan, Ed Douglas, Louise Feneley, Louise Flaherty, Alex Frayne, Anna Glynn, Lee Harrop, Joseph Haxan, Patrick Heath, Grant Hill, Gail Hocking, David Hoyt, Mat Hughes, Sebastian Humphreys, Elizabeth Hunter, Cara Johnson, Caroline Johnson, Leni Kae, Sue Kneebone, Irene Koroluk, Manyitjanu Lennon, Simone Linder-Patton, Lisa Losada, Terry MacDermot, Rebecca McEwan, Cristina Metelli, Jeff Mincham, Monika Morgenstern, Albin Mullner, Jessica Murtagh, Ellie Noir, Hubert Pareroultja, Sonja Porcaro, Alan Ramachandran, Margaret Richards, Robert Roennfeldt, Renata Rozenbilds, Mervyn Rubuntja,Lee Salomone, Otto Schmidinger, Sandra Simon, Christine Small-Pearce, Kieran Squire, Sebastion Toast, Joel Tonks, Annette Vincent, Peter Walker, Graeme Whittle, Laura Wills, Julie Williams, Laura Williams, Tony Wynne, Emma Young
Partners
Ulrike Klein AO, Sandy’s Memorial Trust, Marg Winterhalder, Mount Barker District Council, Bird in Hand, Hahndorf Business Tourism Association
judges
Hugo Michell, Fulvia Mantelli
Heysen Prize for Landscape 2018
WINNER $15,000 acquisitive
DARYL AUSTIN
Pakapakanthi / Victoria Park (Light Forms), Oil on aluminium panel
Pakapakanthi / Victoria Park (Light Forms) represents both an experienced landscape and a landscape transformed and reshaped. It is a landscape transformed by civic forces which, through my daily morning walk, I participate in. Both the civic transformation and my participation within that are temporary situations.
Light would seem both fleeting and fugitive and yet will abide over all transformations of this landscape in time. In painting this landscape (in itself, another transformation) I have tried to use the material of paint to create forms of light within the landscape, to make solid shape of the fleeting.
Daryl Austin is represented by GAGPROJECTS / Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide.
Highly Commended
BRAD LAY
Commended
DALE COLLIER, LAURA WILLIAMS, JENNY MULCAHY
FINALISTS
Daryl Austin, Janet Ayliffe, Alice Blanch, Fleur Brett, Cheryl Anne Brown, Susan Bruce, Ian Burman, Neville Cichon, Dale Collier, Samuel Condon, Lynn Derrick, James Dodd, Ed Douglas, Odette England, Louise Feneley, Zoe Freney, Liss Fenwick, India Flint, Anna Glynn, Scott Hartshorne, Joy Harvey, Philip Heaton, Liz Hetzel, Kate Hughes, Harold Jelfs, Debra Jurss, Mark Judd, Ben Kelly, Heidi Kenyon, Christina Kerkvliet Goddard, Mark Kimber, Sue Kneebone, Janet Koongotema, Brad Lay, Rebecca McEwan, Sarah Merkel, Kathleen Munn, Monika Morgenstern, Jenny Mulcahy, Claire Primrose, Deborah Prior, Jaime Prosser, Cynthia Schwertsik, Megan Seres, Jane Skeer, Andrew Stattman, Lise Temple, Joel Tonks, Catherine Wait, Peter Walker, Jean Walmberg, Amanda Westley, Laura Williams, Dan Withy, Eleanor Zecchin, Paula Zetlein
Partners
Sandy’s Memorial Trust, Beerenberg, Somerled, Reid Print Pty Ltd, Mount Barker District Council, Hahndorf & Districts Lions Club, Hahndorf Fruit & Veg Market
Judges
Penny Griggs, Roy Ananda, Rebecca Madden
Heysen Prize for Landscape 2016
Winner $15,000 acquisitive
SERA WATERS
Fritz and the Rose Garden, mixed media
Highly Commended
ALICE BLANCH
FINALISTS
Lucky Kngwarreye, Helen Sherriff, Elizabeth Doidge, Annette Vincent, Dana Kinter, Robyn Finlay, Hailey Lane, Georgina Agius, Anna Glynn, David Lawruk, Alison Mitchell, India Flint, Susan Bruce, Fleur Brett, Jeff Mincham, Matthew Symons, Mark Kimber, Liz Butler, Ed Douglas, Mike Barr, Paul Sloan, Rebecca Hartman-Kearns, James Walker, Alice Blanch, Louise Feneley, Thom Buchanan, Jenn Brazier, Sera Waters, Bradley Lay, Ken Orchard, James Dodd, Tim Thomson, Lee Salomone, Robyn Kinsela, Janet Ayliffe, Ursula Kiessling, Jarrad Martyn, Janine Mackintosh, Michael Hocking, Ron Rowe, Glen Ash, Peter Barrien, Christopher Boha, Peter Walker, Martin Rek, Sophie Calgari, Ron Gibbings-Johns, Llewelyn Ash, Cristina Metelli
PARTNERS
Mount Barker District Council, Hahndorf Business Tourism Association, Hahndorf Hill Winery, Rilka’s Real Food, Hahndorf & Districts Lions Club, Reid Print Pty Ltd
Heysen Prize for Landscape 2014
Winner $10,000
CHE CHORLEY
Samudera Satu, photograph
Chorley finds great solace and photographic motivation within the remarkably varied coastline of South Australia particularly along the Fleurieu Peninsula where he also enjoys surfing. He is the first photographer to win the Heysen Prize and describes his photographs as modern, digital interpretations of traditionally tactile places. He says he took the photo in mid-winter on an otherwise unremarkable day. ‘It is a colour photograph yet monochromatic in nature and designed to blur the lines between a landscape and a seascape.’ Samudera Satuwhich can be anytime, anywhere yet never again, is part of a photographic series of 18 portraits of the South Australian seas entitled The Sea and Me which was shown recently in Chorley’s first solo exhibition at the Mill where he also has his studio. He says of his winning photograph ‘I aim to explore the sheer scale of the ocean, whilst embracing the minutia. It is a modern South Australian seascape with timeless and placeless elements’. Judge Mark Kimber, Studio Head of Photography and New Media, School of Art Architecture and Design, University of SA praised the originality of Chorley’s work, saying ‘Small waves rise like ruffled carpet out to sea or as dark undulating dunes rippling the horizon. This truly unique work where scale is lost and the macrocosm and microcosm drift in a strangely beguiling flux’.
