I’m doubly delighted to announce that Pasha of the Parklands has been judged the winner of the inaugural Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.

My heartfelt thanks to all those concerned with establishing and organising this fabulous addition to the art prize calendar – the Adelaide Park Lands Preservation Society in particular for their advocacy, Adelaide City Council, the Adelaide Festival Centre and all the other wonderful finalists. It was an honour to have my work in what has spontaneously become a major art prize in Australia but to have the work acknowledged in this way is a greater honour still. Doubly so being the first in a prize so unique and so naturally a part of the cultural life of Adelaide.

Congratulations on a wonderful survey show, champion hang and for championing the unique nature of the lands.

Denim (the horse) I’m sure would salute you all.

The show runs at Artspace at the Festival Centre until April 6.

Denim, Pasha of the Park Lands
2013
Pigment Print, 100cm x 150cm

Having shown a preview of the series at the old gallery in Prahran in 2012 in some wonderful company a discrete nine works will debut in a solo show at the new Gertrude St premises in mid-April. My flouro friends have waited a while for their airing, the series itself evolving over some 2-3 years, and now is the time for them to come out from the shadows. The show will run from April 12 to May 10. More details as they come to hand.

108-110 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065
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I’m delighted to be a finalist in the inaugural The Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize to be held during the 2014 Adelaide Festival. My work Pasha of the Park Lands is from the current series either,either being developed in conjunction with my PhD research at the ANU School of Art. My thanks to Reb and the full-of-himself Denim. The work In Right of Australia from this series was also curated into the 2013 PICA Salon by those wonderful PICA-people in Perth.

A major new prize for South Australia, The Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize offers $30,000 in total with $20,000 for the overall winner. The Park Lands are unique in the world forming the largest green belt surroundiing any capital city. Finalists will be exhibited at Artspace Gallery, Adelaide Festival Centre from February 15 – April 6.

Denim, Pasha of the Park Lands
2013
Pigment Print, 100cm x 150cm