Gallery: Fairholme College Open Art Prize FACETS exhibition awards $15,000 to winners from 200 entries
Artists and photographers collected more than $15,000 in prize money in Fairholme College’s most lucrative art exhibition to date. Check out our gallery here:
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Fairholme College is celebrating its most lucrative art exhibition to date, with four artists and photographers taking home a share of $15,000 in prize money on Friday night.
The Fairholme Open Art Prize FACETS exhibition saw more than 200 curated pieces from artists across Australia.
Toowoomba artist David Usher took out the open category and a whopping $10,000 prize thanks to his painting Under The Magic Mountain, which “celebrates the shifting atmosphere encountered in the highlands of the Great Dividing Range”.
The exhibition also saw the inaugural presentation of the John Sessarago Acquisitive Photography Prize, which went to Hilary Wardhaugh.
Recent Toowoomba Grammar graduate Ruben Fitton won the Mary Snow Memorial Award for emerging artists with his piece Butterfly Girls, worth $2500.
Sarah Ryan won the Inspiring Creativity Acquisitive Art Prize for her photograph Je suis content de vous voir.
FACETS committee member Kathryn Doyle said both the curators Sandy Pottinger and Sue Lostroh and judge Dr Elizabeth Shaw had been impressed by the quality of entrants.
“It’s our largest number of works entered and selected, we had over 200 pieces in the exhibition,” she said.
“It’s a boutique exhibition, that’s why it’s different from an art show.”
Check out highlights from opening night below:
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