HEYSEN PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE 2024

FINALISTS

Gretta Allen, Kim Allen, Annette Allman, David Asher Brook, Nicole Ayliffe, Carole Bann, Bundy Bannerman, Eva Beltran, David Braun, Fleur Brett, Fran Callen, Gavan Card, Gus Clutterbuck, Christine Collins, Stuart Earnshaw, Lesa Farrant, Mark Feiler, Joe Felber, Louise Flaherty, Hamish Fleming, Claire Foord, John Foubister, Melinda Gaughwin, Harriet Geater-Johnson, Tim Gregory, James Hale, Tiffany Hampton, Sophie Hann, Lee Harrop, Bridget Hillebrand, Fiona Hiscock, Gail Hocking, Gail Kellett, Simone Kennedy, Mark Kimber, Raquel Larkins, Simone Linder-Patton, Orlando Luminere, Harley Manifold, Wes Maselli, Deb McKay, Jessica Menzies, Bette Mifsud, Asher Milgate, Renae Nelson, Winnie Pelz, Debbie Pryor, Lee Salomone, Maria Salomonsen, Douglas Schofield, Regine Schwarzer, Leith Semmens, Benedict Sibley, Adele Sliuzas, Dave Sparkes, Luisa Stocco, Dan Tomkins, Datsun Tran, Libby Wakefield, James Walker, Heather Watson, Roland Weight, Amanda Westley, Laura Williams, Georgina Willoughby, Laura Wills, Paula Zetlein.

HEYSEN PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE –ACQUISITIVE $15,000

PEOPLE’S CHOICE PRIZE – NON-ACQUISITIVE $1,000

The Heysen Prize for Landscape 2024 invites artists to express their deep connection with – or concern for – protecting the Australian environment and to pay homage to Hans Heysen as an artist and environmentalist.

Heysen Prize for Landscape has a focus on the environment and climate concerns. In an era of rapid climate change, battling fire and flood, drought and destruction, Australia has one of the highest loss of plant and animal species in the world.

Hans Heysen raised awareness about the environment through his painting and passion for the landscape. He is noted as an early environmental activist and lobbied to protect trees. He purchased land to preserve the natural environment in and around Hahndorf.

Heysen Prize for Landscape is 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 prize is open for 2D and 3D and moving image works. The word 'landscape' includes all possible aspects of the natural, rural, and urban landscape. 

A panel of judges with professional expertise in the arts will select finalist works for exhibition and determine the Prize recipients who will be announced at the exhibition launch at the Hahndorf Academy on 23 November.

DELIVERY OF ARTWORKS FOR FINALISTS – SEPTEMBER 16 – NOVEMBER 8 (MON-FRI ONLY)

EXHIBITION DATES - NOVEMBER 23, 2024 - JANUARY 26, 2025

EXHIBITION LAUNCH - NOVEMBER 23, 2024, AT 6-8PM

COLLECTION OF WORKS - JANUARY 29 – Feb 7, 2025

entries are now closed

JUDGES - MARIA ZAGALA & ANDREW PURVIS

HEYSEN PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE 2024

Maria Zagala is Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at the Art Gallery of South Australia, where she has served since 2006. From 1996 to 2006 she was Assistant Curator of Prints & Drawings at the National Gallery of Victoria. Maria completed her Master of Fine Arts at La Trobe University specializing in life drawing practice in the Italian Renaissance, with extended periods of research in Berlin, London and Florence. She has curated numerous on historical and contemporary art including A Beautiful Life: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi (2010), Tracey Moffatt: Narratives (with Stephen Zagala, 2011), Trent Parke: the Black Rose (with Julie Robinson, 2015) and Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch, co-presented by TarraWarra Museum of Art and AGSA (2023-2024). She was editor of the monograph Ian North: art/work/words (2019). From 2006 to 2019 she was Affiliate Lecturer in the Art History Program, School of History & Politics at the University of Adelaide. She has served on the boards of the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (2009-2012), Artlink (2011), and The Nora Heysen Foundation (2022-continuing). Maria Zagala was born in Warsaw, Poland and arrived in Australia as a refugee in 1980.

She recently contributed an extended essay on Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski to Margot Osborne’s definitive study of post war South Australian Art, The Adelaide Art Scene: Becoming contemporary 1939-2000, published by Wakefield Press in 2023.

Andrew Purvis is the Curator at Adelaide Central Gallery, attached to Adelaide Central School of Art. He is also a practising visual artist, an award-winning arts writer and an educator. 

The Beerenberg Family Farm is a sixth-generation Australian-owned family farm located in Hahndorf, in the Adelaide Hills.  They are dedicated to sharing a taste of the country life with the world by using the freshest farm produce to craft the best tasting jams, condiments, sauces and dressings.

Andrew Purvis is the Curator at Adelaide Central Gallery, attached to Adelaide Central School of Art. He is also a practising visual artist, an award-winning arts writer and an educator.

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.

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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

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’.

Past Winners