While in New Zealand as Waiheke Community Art Gallery’s artist in residence Western Australian artist Bronwen Newbury was announced overall winner of the Cossack Art Award, Western Australia’s richest art prize.
Weekend Street Walk | Bronwen Newbury
The End of the Walk | Bronwen Newbury
Newbury who comes from Albany (Western Australia), won the award for her work The Golden Hour a landscape painting of the Pilbara region.
Cossack Art Award Judge John Teschendorff said “Newbury’s work, The Golden Hour, is a brilliant Australian landscape in the stylistic reality of renowned Australian artists Arthur Boyd and Fred Williams.” “The work has the same high horizon and a gentle authority over the landscape. Every time you look at the painting you see something different and that’s the story of this landscape.”
“We are very thrilled that Bronwen achieved this award while on her residency on Waiheke,”said Gallery Director Linda Chalmers.
“It’s been a challenging journey for Bronwen to get here and take up the residency 12 months later than scheduled, given last year’s lockdowns, and then for her to adapt to a totally different look of the land. In place of a flat landscape with high horizons, she has found steep hills and sub-tropical shapes and colours. We’re very much looking forward to seeing her interpretations of our landscape in the paintings created here on Waiheke.”
Newbury’s exhibition Falling Light will be available to view on the Gallery’s website waihekeartgallery.org.nz
Further details regarding its rescheduled opening at the Gallery will be posted on the Gallery website.
