{"id":10234,"date":"2023-03-23T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&p=10234"},"modified":"2023-03-23T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:39:09","slug":"visual-arts-67","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/visual-arts-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s banner is one of Thea Anamara Perkins’s works from the the La Prairie Art Award.<\/em><\/p>\n

Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist and Old Girl Thea Anamara Perkins (Class of 2009) was announced last week as the winner of the $80,000 La Prairie Art Award, an annual prize in association with the Art Gallery of NSW that champions work by Australian female artists. Thea, whose family often are the subject for her work, won for a suite of four paintings that depict three generations of her relatives in medium scale images.<\/p>\n

Thea’s other recent works include a large scale mural at Carriageworks that was part of the Sydney Festival over the Summer. In this ambitious and striking work, Thea painted her Great Grandmother, Hetty, against the backdrop of her Country near Arltunga, around Mparntwe\/Alice Springs where she lived and worked. The mural questions who is mythologised in the foundation narratives of this Country, using the language of the Australian gothic.<\/p>\n

You can read more about the mural here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s about taking charge of representation \u2013 I find that painting is a very simple and direct way of communicating things that I want to say.” – Thea Anamara Perkins<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Below are the la Prairie winning works<\/strong><\/h5>\n