Posted by Jacqui Bonner | 20/04/2022
2022 Gallipoli Art Prize
DEIRDRE BEAN ‘ALONG THE RIDE TO DAMASCUS’
| DEIRDRE BEAN WINS 2022 GALLIPOLI ART PRIZE WITH ‘ALONG THE RIDE TO DAMASCUS’ 2022 Gallipoli Art Prize winner Deirdre Bean with her winning painting ‘Along the ride to Damascus’.Photo Cynthia Sciberras Download high res |
| Newcastle artist Deirdre Bean has won the 2022 Gallipoli Art Prize ($20 000 acquisitive prize auspiced by the Gallipoli Memorial Club) with her painting ‘Along the ride to Damascus’ featuring a sword used by Australian Light Horse battalions in WWI. Bean’s winning work is intricately rendered in oil paint on canvas using ultra-fine brushes. The sword, scabbard and leather-bound ‘swagger stick’ featured in the painting belong to a private collector who loaned the precious items to Deirdre Bean so she could draw and then paint them from life. ‘It has been my art practice in recent years to rediscover items such as these: precious, meaningful items that are locked away and in danger of being forgotten,’ says Deirdre Bean. ‘My ambition is to ‘relove’ them by bringing them briefly into the light and, with careful handling, reimagine them in paint on canvas. This sword now has a new alternative life. The stories it evokes are retold, conversations are had, and information shared. We remember, lest we forget.’ [ Read her full artist statement here ] Deirdre Bean is a revered botanical artist with a PhD in Natural History Illustration, focusing on mangrove species. Her works are included in the public collections The Royal Botanical Gardens in London and Sydney as well as Parliament House in Canberra. Her awards include one Gold and two Silver-Gilt Medals from the Royal Horticultural Society, London and her work ‘Major Smith’s Petrichor’ was Highly Commended in the 2020 Gallipoli Art Prize. Deirdre Bean’s first artist trip to Gallipoli was in 2013 which prompted her to begin painting weaponry and other battlefield relics. In 2017 she was one of twelve artists included in an art expedition to the WWI battlefields in France and Belgium, to explore Australian history and memories of the Great War. The judges highly commended Geoff Harvey for his painting ‘Lest We Forget’ made up of four panels depicting a war memorial in different seasons of the year. Harvey says in his artist statement ‘The seasons come and the seasons go, as the years pass but these statues continue to hold their posts steadfast and reliable as silent sentinels of remembrance in an ever-changing landscape… Lest We Forget’ Geoff Harvey has won the Gallipoli Art Prize twice, once in 2012 with ‘Trench Interment’ and again in 2021 with ‘Forgotten Heroes’. The Gallipoli Art Prize invites artists to respond to the broad themes of loyalty, respect, love of country, courage and comradeship as expressed in the Gallipoli Club’s creed. THE GALLIPOLI MEMORIAL CLUB CREED: “We believe that within the community there exists an obligation for all to preserve the special qualities of loyalty, respect, love of country, courage and comradeship which were personified by the heroes of the Gallipoli Campaign and bequeathed to all humanity as a foundation for perpetual peace and universal freedom”. Judging for this year’s Prize was conducted by Jane Watters, Barry Pearce, John Robertson and Elizabeth Fortescue. Previous winners of the Gallipoli Art Prize include renowned artists Euan Macleod (2009), Idris Murphy (2014) and Jiawei Shen (2016). Exhibition The 2022 Gallipoli Art Prize will be on exhibition at The Cleland Bond Store, 33 Playfair St, The Rocks, Sydney from 21 April to 8 May, 2022. To view the works online visit www.gallipoliartprize.org.auGallipoli Art Prize 2022 Winner: Deirdre Bean ‘Along the ride to Damascus’ 58 x 120 cm. Oil on canvas. Download High Res.Gallipoli Art Prize 2022 Highly Commended: Geoff Harvey ‘Lest We Forget’ 160cm x 120cm. Acrylic on board. Download High Res.2022 Gallipoli Art Prize Winner: Deirdre Bean Along the ride to Damascus Highly Commended: Geoff Harvey Lest We Forget 2022 Gallipoli Art Prize Finalists Andrew Tomkins Tarakan Anthony Swan And the Earth shall have it all Christine Wrest-Smith The Messenger Clare Llewelyn The Night Quilt Deidre Bean Along the ride to Damascus Frankie Morgan Wild clefting, you I sing Geoff Harvey Lest we Forget Ian Morton Life and Limb James Powditch Empire John Klein Jack Klein Jon Field Toby’s Diary – letters to my Mother Julie Hutchings The Anzac Spirit Shines Kally Arnold Who Dares Wins Karl Romandi Show and Tell 1952 Kevser Ugurlu Restless Hope Syndrome Lara Balog Digger Lee Portman Aboriginal Soldier Lori Pensini White Feather – Coward or Courage Michael Ryan Price of War Penelope Oates A way through Philip Meatchem The Frontline Worker – Portrait of a fuzzy wuzzy angel Robert Hammill Coming Home Rodney Forbes Able Seaman John Henry Jarrett, RAN Rosalind Friday Cricket on Shell Green Ross Townsend Wars End Shirin Amirbeaggi There is no difference Shirley Jenkins The Walers Sylvia Leech Embracing the Dawn Sylvie Carter Surveyors of Merauke, PNG Trenna Austin Thundered through and I saw them coming but not as a trot [ view all 2022 finalists here ] Gallipoli Art Prize Previous Winners 2006 Margaret Hadfield Ataturk’s legacy 2007 Lianne Gough Glorus fallen 2008 Tom Carment Max Carment, War Veteran (the last Portrait) 2009 Euan Macleod Smoke/Pink landscape/Shovel 2010 Raymond Arnold The dead march here today 2011 Hadyn Wilson Sacrifice 2012 Geoff Harvey Trench interment 2013 Peter Wegner Dog with Gas Mask 2014 Idris Murphy Gallipoli Evening 2013 2015 Sally Robinson Boy Soldiers 2016 Jiawei Shen Yeah, Mate! 2017 Amanda Penrose Hart The Sphinx, Perpetual Peace 2018 Steve Lopes Exposed Wood, Mont St Quentin 2019 Martin King War Pigeon Diaries 2020 Alison Mackay Breathe 2021 Geoff Harvey Forgotten Heroes [ View previous winners here]Media Contact Clare McGregor M: 0418 192 524 clarempublicity@gmail.com Media Assets2022 Winner and Highly Commended [ CLICK HERE ] 2022 Finalists [ CLICK HERE ] www.gallipoliartprize.org.au |