Jamie Boys' Xmas at Bribie Island took out this year's Corangamarah Art Prize.
A BIKE trip from Lilydale to Warburton has inspired this year’s Corangamarah Art Prize winner.
Richmond’s Jamie Boys’ bike trip took him past a caravan park at Warburton, east of Melbourne, where the blurred lines between public and private realms led him to create the winning entry in Colac’s top art show.
Janne Kearney's the Goddess Movement won the Brewers' Choice award.
Xmas at Bribie Island depicts a scene where a naked man is lying on the ground, watching two dogs play tug-of-war with string tied to a swimsuit-clad woman’s ankle.
“I was interested in how people segregate areas to claim as their own, even though it’s a public space,” Boys said.
“People that have been living there for a number of years start to see that area as their own,” the part-time artist said.
“I didn’t actually see that actual scene – this one extended that and pushed those activities a little further.”
Boys said he moved the piece’s location to Queensland’s Bribie Island to represent a “typical Australian holiday”.
He said the $5000 prize would help him pay for studio access and cover costs for an upcoming exhibition at Melbourne’s Dianne Tanzer Gallery.
Graeme Wilkie of Lorne’s Qdos Arts picked Boys’ graphite-on-paper drawing over about 40 other entries from across the country.
“It’s a piece of mastery in pencil work, it shows the eccentricity of the human condition,” Wilkie said.
“It has a sense of humour and sense of humanity. It was beautifully executed,” he said.
The competition raises money for Colac aged care centre Corangamarah and the pieces will be on display at Barongarook’s Otway Estate until Sunday.
Geelong’s Janne Kearney took out Saturday night’s Brewers’ Choice award.
Kearney’s The Goddess Movement comprises six portraits of women – aged from 81 to their late-90s – arranged in a crucifix shape.
“The majority of them are from a Geelong aged care facility, with the exception of the top woman, who’s an artist and a friend,” Kearney said.
“It’s a memorial to our mothers and grandmothers, and women need to be held up as goddesses,” she said.
