Jess Johnson
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Jess Johnson’s drawing and installation practice is inspired by the speculative intersections between language, science fiction, culture and technology. Read full story: Jess Johnson >
Ross Manning
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Ross Manning works with kinetics, sound and technology combining re-purposed technologies with common objects. His kinetic environments construct independent systems of logic, generating automatons of coloured light... Read full story: Ross Manning >
The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP15)
11 Apr - 31 Apr 2015
GNAP is a $20.000 national, acquisitive, biennial, contemporary art prize administered by Federation University Australia (FedUni)'s Arts Academy, generously supported by local Ballarat surgeon and philanthropist Mr Mark Guirguis, GNAP showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists in Ballarat, Victoria. Read full story: The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP15) >
Conrad Tipungwuti
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Conrad Tipungwuti is a traditional Tiwi man and artist whose understanding of the world is shaped by observation and by constant watching, more than by self-aggrandising participation. Read full story: Conrad Tipungwuti >
Mark Shorter
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Mark Shorter works across painting, sculpture and performance. His practice draws on a grotesque and unsettling humor to unpick established conventions and social mores. Read full story: Mark Shorter >
Jemima Wyman
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Jemima Wyman’s work investigates visual resistance as a feminist strategy through making and documenting ‘communal skins’. This work developed as a response to a heightened culture of fear surrounding masking that emerged after 9/11. Read full story: Jemima Wyman >
Dominic Redfern
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
‘Weeding’ is a three-screen video installation, taking the plant Gorse as its subject. The work combines three existing trajectories: narratives of place, botanical studies of signature species and performance. Read full story: Dominic Redfern >
Teelah George
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Teelah George's practice looks at archival information and processes as a way to examine the relationship between narrative and representation, excavating the parallel ambiguities in both historical record and visual art. Read full story: Teelah George >
Susan Jacobs
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Susan Jacobs engages with latent potential inherent in the materials, spaces and contexts she responds to. Discursive research and material experimentation inform her practice, which encourages lateral associations to be drawn... Read full story: Susan Jacobs >
Chris Bond
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Chris Bond studied Fine Art at RMIT in the mid-1990s and has exhibited since 2000. He undertook a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in 2001 and has since featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Read full story: Chris Bond >
Dylan Martorell
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Dylan Martorell's work incorporates sounds, found materials and objects collected from a broad range of sites across the globe to create multi-user sound-based installations. Read full story: Dylan Martorell >
Pilar Mata Dupont
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Since 2011 Pilar Mata Dupont has almost exclusively worked on a solo practice which encompasses photography, performance, and most regularly: video and film. Her last two and half years have been spent travelling, researching... Read full story: Pilar Mata Dupont >
Chris Barry
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
For the past fourteen years Chris Barry has been conducting her practice amongst specific Aboriginal families living in Alice Springs, Central Australia. Initially she worked amongst family and kin living at Morris Soak... Read full story: Chris Barry >
Kate Mitchell
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Kate Mitchell’s video titled Future Fallout is a single channel video commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre and forms part of the Temporary Democracies initiative curated by Paul Gazzola. Read full story: Kate Mitchell >
Julie Gough
Guirguis New Art Prize 2015
Much of Julie Gough’s work explores notions of loss and absence. Film provides the mechanics of duration to her imaginings. Engrossed in uncovering what has transpired, often at places significant to her ancestors, Gough’s work... Read full story: Julie Gough >