2023 Art Prize enters final phase

by Shane Sody
(image above: Art Prize committee chair, Nataliya Dikovskaya with artist Brenton Dreschler.)
Pic: Lyndon Stacy

The 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is over. Or is it?

The exhibition of 80 finalist Art Works at the Festival Centre was packed up on Monday 8 May.

Each one of the “sold” artworks has found a new home.

Picking up their new artwork

Art Prize sponsors, Jacqueline and James Hahn - with artist Marisha Matthews, picking up their purchase “Morton Bay Fig, Botanic Gardens” at the Festival Centre on Monday 8 May.

Picking up her new artwork

“Ëmerging Artist” Madeline Gordon (left) meeting the purchaser of her painting “Shadow Bent Tree” Trish Russell (right) at the Festival Centre on 8 May.

But for the unsold artworks, a new phase has begun.

Winner of the Photography prize, Steph Fuller (left) and the purchaser of her work, Hannah Andreyev. Andreyev Lawyers were also one of the major sponsors of the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

New phase

Although the exhibition is over, each of the unsold works is still available for purchase from:

• the Park Lands Art Prize website, or

• our Shopify store.

This sale will end on 30 June 2023.

If you are a business owner, you can claim a tax deduction for artworks that are displayed at your business premises.

Swan Family Lawyers have taken advantage of this, with their purchase of Brenton Dreschler’s award-winning work “Looking East.” The work is on display not only at their business premises, bur also on their website:

“Looking East” as featured on the Swan Family Lawyers’ website and (inset) the winner of the Emerging Artist category, Brenton Dreschler with his work at the recent finalists’ exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

People’s Choice winner

After the close of voting on Sunday 7 May, all the votes were tallied for the Royal Adelaide Show People’s Choice Award. It was necessary to exclude some dubious votes that had attempted to skew the result, but when only valid votes were counted, it was a narrow victory to Jacob Foster. His painting, “Family Gathering” just edged out the photographic entry from Lea White: “See Me In a New Light”.

Jacob Foster "Family Gathering"

Lea White: “See Me In a New Light”

Jacob Foster had entered the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize in three categories: Emerging Artist, First Nations Artist, and Under 25.

Works still for sale

For most businesses, an artwork (such as any of these) can be an instant write-off for tax purposes, provided it is displayed in your business premises. These artworks will continue to be available but ONLY UNTIL 30 June 2023.

01. Evie Adasal Title: This is how I feel

02. Alison Arnold Title: Popeyes Ark Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

03. Sally Arnold Title: Appreciation - Victoria Park Wetlands Adelaide

04. Daryl Austin Title: Shrouded Monument, Tarntanyangga 2022 Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

05. Peter Baka Title: Strange days and nights

06. Barbara Milpati Baker Title: Ngapaṟi Tjukurpa Prize Status: First Nations Artist Prize Winner

07. Max Ballard Title: Lighting Tower

08. Mike Barr Title: Autumn dapples - Botanic Gardens

09. Lena Baumgartner Title: Greener Grass

10. Alex Beckinsale Title: Crossing

11. Clare Belfrage Title: Tree Lines, Pale Green with Dark Green Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

12. Piper Binsted Title: Home Prize Status: School Student Prize Winner

13. Tom Borgas Title: Hyperobject (Kadaltilla) Prize Status: Digital Category Prize Winner

14. David Braun Title: Storm Approaching Carriageway Park Tuthangga

15. David Braybrooke Title: Prismatic Spring

16. Nicole Clift Title: Sunken garden

17. Jessica Constantine Title: chillin' down under

18. Erin Daniell Title: Bark Mothers

19. Robert Dettman Title: Colours of Place: Adelaide's Forty Parks

20. Brenton Drechsler Title: Looking West Prize Status: Emerging Artist Prize Winner

21. Brenton Drechsler Title: Looking East Prize Status: Emerging Artist Prize Winner

22. Linden Edwards Title: Was Here

23. James Elsby Title: The Secrets of Rymill Park Lake

24. James Elsby Title: Ghosts and Gums Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

25. Wendy Fairclough Title: Study For a Landscape

26. Louise Flaherty Title: Plant Carers of Park 17 - Tuthangga

27. Hamish Fleming Title: Nightwalk Prize Status: Young Artist (u25) Prize Winner

28. Jacob Foster Title: Family Gathering

29. John Foubister Title: The nobility of rocks and sticks. Life on the ground Prize Status: Overall Prize Winner

30. Steph Fuller Title: Close Orbit Prize Status: Photography Prize Winner

31. Madeline Gordon Title: Shadow-bent Tree

32. Blake Griffiths Title: Rabid Eradication (Persistent Pestilence) Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

33. Sophia Guth Title: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos of the Parklands

34. Pia Gynell-Jorgensen Title: Three Trees & One Canopy

35. Sally Heinrich Title: Iparrityi

36. Bernadette Hind Title: A Space For You

37. Luke Humphrys Title: Tree of Memories

38. Mae Irvine Title: Past and Future

39. Brett Jones Title: The Three Graces

40. Michelle Kelly Title: Labyrinthine

41. Mark Kimber Title: Mark Kimber - Eventide 9

42. Kerryn Levy Title: 700 Hectares In Motion

43. Lloma Mackenzie Title: Life

44. Marisha Matthews Title: Morton Bay Fig, Botanic Gardens

45. Daniel McCulloch Title: Impressions of The Riverbank Precinct - Adelaide, SA

46. Sarah McDonald Title: Sentient Beings

47. Sharon McEachern Title: Precious Preservation Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

48. Deb McKay Title: Grasslands Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

49. Jessica Murtagh Title: Sisters Seasons Apart

50. Alice Mussared Title: Tuthangga (Park 17)

51. John Neylon Title: After Rain

52. Sarah Northcott Title: Park 27: Trees, bunting, agapanthus plants, and view of Karrawirra Parri

53. Patrick Pearson Title: Natural Exuberance - Coral tree Bark, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Park 11

54. Sylvia Piddington Title: Parklands River Red Gum (Eucalyptus Camaldulensis)

55. Dorota Pomagalska Title: Park Lands, Possums and Periwinkle Sky

56. Rosina Possingham Title: Ruby Red Saltbush

57. Rosina Possingham Title: Herding Caterpillars - VR - The lifecycle of the Chequered Copper butterfly, in extended reality

58. Ross Potter Title: Dear Life Prize Status: Judges Commendation Prize Winner

59. Jane Price Title: Parklands Olive Branch

60. Rebekah Nyalkba Quall Title: Tarndanya

61. Janet Raleigh Title: Whispering Grandmother

62. Erin Renfrey Title: We Are So Very Small

63. Nicholas Rutten Title: Super Nature

64. Tiff Rysdale Title: The Golden Wattle hybrid (Acacia Pycnantha)

65. Rachel Scholich Title: Uncle Mickey O'Brien Welcome to Country

66. Helen Sherriff Title: Ponder

67. Mook Simpson Title: A Hopeful Future

68. Arna Smith Title: Protective Layer

69. Laura Stewart Title: The strength of Small Things

70. Peter Syndicas Title: Native Oppression

71. Gishka Van Ree Title: Winter in the Veale Gardens on walyu yarta root ground

72. Mary Wagstaff Title: Bonython Park, Tulya Wardli

73. Adrianna Wasinska-Fabian Title: Into the woods 1

74. Lea White Title: See me in a new light

75. Georgina Willoughby Title: Woodland Echo (Wirrarninthi) 2023

76. Jo Wright Title: Corner of the Cemetery / Park 23

77. Jo Wright Title: Lightning Bridge / Karntu Waadlakatha

78. Jo Wright Title: Narnungga Urban Forest

79. Claire Yerbury Title: Ghosts and Nests

80. Emma Young Title: West Tce Prickly Pears

Each of the unsold works above is still available for purchase from:

• the Park Lands Art Prize website, or

• our Shopify store.

Proceeds benefit both the artist (70%) and the Adelaide Park Lands Association (30%) to continue our work to Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore.

HOWEVER This sale will end on 30 June 2023.