HEYSEN PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE 2024 FINALIST EXHIBITION

NOVEMBER 23, 2024 - JANUARY 26, 2025

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, Wesley 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.

The Heysen Prize for Landscape 2024 invited 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 raised awareness about the environment through his painting and passion for the landscape. He is noted as an early environmental activist, purchasing land to preserve the natural environment in and around Hahndorf and lobbying to protect trees in the area.

The Heysen Prize for Landscape is a contemporary art prize established in 1997 to commemorate the life and work of the internationally renowned artist (1877-1968). The prize 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 experienced one of the most significant losses of plant and animal species in the world. This is a biennial event celebrating emerging, mid-career and established artists and their connection to landscape and place with 2D and 3D works.

Bundy Bannerman - A Journey of Life

February 6 - March 23, 2025

Gallery 2

Exhibition launch - February 22, 2-4pm

John “Bundy” Bannerman moved to the outback at the age of 7. He started working in his family’s outback trucking business at an early age and has hauled everything from livestock, mining equipment to hay and wool. After his last back injury in 2019 and the frustration of being in the “big smoke” during recovery, he decided to turn his hand to art – something he never expected to find joy and strength in. Bundy is now a full-time artist, primarily working with acrylics, and spends his time painting his love of trucks, cars, the outback and anything else that excites his imagination. Recently he has been exploring metal and wood as painting surfaces. Without art he knows he wouldn’t be here.

BIO

“I was an outback Road train truck driver for my family business. I’ve moved to Adelaide and took up painting as a hobby at Duffy Street Art supplies with encouragement from Megan and Kate.

I have painted for two years and had my own business as Pink Bear Art.

I like to paint the outback in subject of depression of myself.”

Cecilia Gunnarsson - As I See It

February 6 - March 23, 2025

Gallery 1

Exhibition launch - February 22, 2-4pm

"Being immersed in the landscape, in the natural world, is essential to me. I feel the need to seek sanctuary in wild places - to reconnect to a sense of being the same as all living things. To remind myself that I am also a part of nature, no more, no less. In this body of work, I have painted the outback, mountains and the ocean."

BIO

Cecilia is an artist originally from Sweden. She grew up in a small country town where nature and the forest were always close. After half a lifetime in South Australia, its landscape is now also part of her with its smells and sounds, the colour and light, the seasons. Cecilia paints mainly in oils, expressing the light and form with patterns of colours and brushstrokes.