Mini Series Art Prize 2023, The Corner Store Gallery
Mini Series Art Prize
This is our third bi-annual Mini Series Art Prize founded by Gallery Director Madeline Young in 2019. Artists were invited to submit 3 artworks as a small body of work to be judged by a panel of experts. The winner of our Mini Series Art Prize will receive a solo exhibition with us here at The Corner Store Gallery in 2024. We also award two Highly Commended awards and artists become part of our stable. This competition is open to emerging and professional artists from Australia who have not had a solo exhibition with us before. The exhibition will include the most exciting and original artworks submitted for selection from artists and designers from all over Australia.
Finalists: Amy Raymond, Brooke Whelan, Cecilia Gunnarsson, Chris de Hoog, Clare Walker, Deb Michell-Smith, Diana Ellinger, Emma Small, Erin Pearce, Evie Adasal, Felicite Briggs, Hilary Rookyard, Holly Eva, Jacqueline McCoy, James Gordon, Jane Chacana, Jessica Olpp, Jo Langley, Jodi Thompson, Julie Lynch, Karlie Simring, Kathryn Junor, Katrina Holden, Kym Barrett, Lea Durie, Lise Hobcraft, Luanne Mitchelmore, Lynda McKay, Meg Frances, Megan Campbell, Natalie Martin, Nell Symonds, Nicola Knackstredt, Rachel Shaw, Sharon Cameron, Simon Palmer, Sofie Neuendorf, Stu Doherty, Tina Hunter, Vicki Ratcliff.
Our Judges: Madeline Young (Gallery Director), Larissa Blake (Artist), Anne Masters (Director Gallery of Small Things in Canberra).
Previous Winners: Naomi Lawler 2019, Ana Anderson 2021.
Previous Runners Up: Carly le Cerf 2019, Raphe Coombes 2019, Sky Jasper Mooney 2021, Natasha Townsend 2021.
Finalists pictured: Evie Adasal, Chris de Hoog, Jacqueline McCoy, Brooke Whelan, Felicite Briggs, Lea Durie, Hilary Rookyard, Katrina Holden.
Finalists pictured: Kym Barrett, Meg Frances, Nicola Knackstredt, Amy Raymond, Holly Eva, Diana Ellinger, James Gordon, Sofie Neuendorf.
Finalists pictured: Simon Palmer, Erin Pearce, Tina Hunter, Deb Michell-Smith, Karlie Simring, Meg Campbell, Nell Symonds, Natalie Martin.
Finalists pictured: Jane Chacana, Sharon Cameron, Lynda McKay, Jodi Thompson, Clare Walker, Kathryn Junior, Rachel Shaw, Julie Lynch.
Finalists pictured: Luanne Mitchelmore, Jo Langley, Jessica Olpp, Vicki Ratcliff, Stu Doherty, Cecilia Gunnarsson, Emma Small, Lise Hobcroft.
Judges
Anne Masters is Director / Owner of Gallery of Small Things (GOST) located on Ngunnawal and Ngrambi peoples land. She has operated her award winning art gallery for more than 5 years providing a little tourist gem in suburbia. GOST is about makers and designers housed in the tiniest gallery in Canberra, Australia. These artists love texture, form and all things fabulous and small. Visitors will see works in ceramics, jewellery, paintings, photography, print media, textiles and wood. They will experience that hygee feeling the Danish love (which loosely translates to 'being cosy') - in a space less than 6 meters square. She teaches business basics workshops for those that are in the arts to further their professional artistic practices. She is also a ceramic artist who makes porcelain birds, little dishes and jewellery.
Larissa Blake is a visual artist based in Orange, N.S.W.
A painter and colourist, her work is inspired by the everyday and reinterprets traditional genres in a contemporary context.
Larissa’s figurative abstraction is imbued with a sense of place and space. She is interested in the uplifting potential of art and works with a joyful and exuberant colour palette.
As a child growing up in regional Australia, Madeline Young has always found solace in art, provided with an ever-inspiring landscape in her hometown of Orange, NSW.
Before completing her degree in Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle in 2009, majoring in printmaking and photography, Madeline travelled the U.S. teaching art classes at summer camps. Post-university, Madeline returned to Orange taking up the role of artist-in-residence at Kinross Wolaroi School from 2011 - 2014.
Since 2014, Madeline has devoted her time towards managing and curating The Corner Store Gallery in Orange, working with Australia’s emerging artists, from both the country and city. Here, Madeline strives to promote and support other artists and designers through her work at the gallery, something which helps her find creativity in her own practice.