Ana Anderson: Winner Of Our Mini Series Art Prize 2021
Ana Anderson, Lagoon Reflections, 2021, acrylic on board, 40x50cm framed in Tasmanian oak.
Winner of the Mini Series Art Prize 2021, The Corner Store Gallery.
Ana Anderson: Winner Of Our Mini Series Art Prize 2021
The Corner Store Gallery is absolutely thrilled to announce the winner of our 2021 Mini Series Art Prize Ana Anderson!!!
Our three judges Lucy Stranger (Curator of Orange Regional Gallery), Angela Malone (local artist and educator) and Corner Store Gallery Director Madeline Young had a seriously difficult task deciding the winner with so many fantastic finalists. Artists were invited to create a small body of work which would in theory give us a “preview” of what their solo exhibition would be. The judges felt Ana’s series was diverse as well as consistent across all three works. We all agreed that Ana’s series of work was absolutely beautiful, unique, conceptually strong, consistent, great quality and most deserving our top prize! Her work is playful, sophisticated and strong. Ana has won a rent-free solo exhibition with The Corner Store Gallery in 2022 and we hope to further her promising career as a visual artist!
Artist Bio: Ana Anderson is a contemporary artist working from the bush on Sydney's Northern Beaches. She works with multiple mediums but is currently focused on exploring the fragmentation of space within the landscape using paint. Her works are both emotive and meditative, balancing between realism and abstraction.
She has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours at the National Art School and was awarded the Storrier Onslow NAS Paris Residency.
Artist Statement: Finding beauty and solace in the local bush, Ana's work is carefully composed through her photography. She then returns to the studio and breaks down the compositions into geometric designs and organic forms creating a balance between reality and abstraction. The final work no longer resembles the photograph, it is completed using a visual dialogue between the colours and forms, designing a rhythmic flow.
Ana Anderson, Garigal Sunset, 2021, acrylic on linen, 50x62cm framed in Tasmanian oak.
Winner of the Mini Series Art Prize 2021, The Corner Store Gallery.
Ana Anderson, Shadow Play II, 2021, acrylic on board, 20x40cm framed in Tasmanian oak.
Winner of the Mini Series Art Prize 2021, The Corner Store Gallery.
Highly Commended
We have awarded two Highly Commended prizes to Sky Jasper Mooney AND Natasha Townsend. Congratulations to these two amazing artists! We feel very privileged to exhibit your fantastic work and very much look forward to working with you in the future!
Sky Jasper Mooney, Tree Fern I, II & III, 2021, acrylic on board framed in hardwood, 45x55cm.
Sky Jasper Mooney
Sky’s painting practice takes inspiration directly from his observed surroundings, drawing influence from traditional methods of painting and pushing boundaries into abstraction, with a focus on line, tone and value. His works are the results of seeing, focusing on the visible, visual world, where every mark is a reference to something witnessed. Painting becomes an avenue on which to experience life as it happens and watch it unfold.
Sky Jasper Mooney is a painter living in the Tuntable Falls valley outside of Nimbin, NSW. In 2012 he completed a Diploma of Visual Art from the Swinburne University of Technology and in 2015 he graduated from a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts.
Natasha Townsend, Geo Sunset, Geo Bloom & Geo Liberarsi, 2021, acrylic and sand additive on MDF, various sizes.
Natasha Townsend
Natasha doesn’t consider herself an artist, rather a designer, solving a problem. She enjoys the journey of dreaming up ideas, tinkering, trying and refining, testing and failing and starting over again. She dedicates a lot of time to experimentation. She likes to push materials and combine techniques to understand how they can work in conjunction with one another.
In this series, Natasha experimented with numerous mediums, with one piece of work often leading to the next. Shapes, composition and colour are explored digitally and reworked into line art. The shapes are milled, sanded and painted then reworked again into compositions that are unique and tangible in response to the original digital piece.