Ramsay Art Prize 2023

27 May - 27 Aug 2023

Galleries 8, 9, 10, 11

Free entry

Congratulations to Ida Sophia, winner of the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize 2023, the nation’s most generous prize for Australian artists under forty, with her work Witness.

The winning work is a performance-based video. Informed by the South Australian artist’s early childhood experience of observing her father’s baptism, Witness was shot in a single take at The Pool of Siloam in Wirmalngrang/Beachport in regional South Australia. The single-channel video work depicts the artist in performance, undergoing a repetitive and intense series of submergences that take a single baptism to the level of relentless obsession.

Chosen from more than 300 entries from across the country, the judges were unanimous in their decision and describe the winning work as sophisticated in concept and deeply emotive in subject. Ida Sophia’s Ramsay Art Prize 2023 entry now becomes part of AGSA's collection.

The 2023 judging panel comprised of Aaron Seeto, Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Nusantara, Jakarta; Perth-based visual artist and creative producer Erin Coates; and Nici Cumpston OAM, Artistic Director of Tarnanthi and Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Finalists

Abdul Abdullah (NSW), Carla Adams (WA), Badra Aji (VIC), Tom Blake (NSW/WA), Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman (QLD), Emma Buswell (WA), Jacobus Capone (WA), Sundari Carmody (SA), Ida Sophia (SA), Corban Clause Williams (WA), Henry Curchod (NSW), Sarah Drinan (NT), Zaachariaha Fielding (SA), Aidan Gageler (NSW), Olive Gill-Hille (WA), Pascale Giorgi (WA), Nadia Hernández (VIC), Alana Hunt (WA/NSW), Alfred Lowe (SA), Gian Manik (VIC), Daniel McKewen (QLD), Amy Perejuan-Capone (WA), Alison Puruntatameri (NT), JD Reforma (NSW), Teho Ropeyarn (QLD), Yasmin Smith (NSW) and Katie West (WA).

See the works of all 27 finalists and have your say in the People’s Choice Prize, a non-acquisitive cash prize of $15,000 supported by LK. Voting closes at 5pm on 6 August 2023. The People's Choice winner is announced on 11 August 2023.

People’s Choice Prize Winner Announced

The winner of the $15,000 Ramsay Art Prize 2023 People's Choice Prize supported by LK is Zaachariaha Fielding with his suite of works Wonder Drug.

installation view: Ramsay Art Prize 2023 featuring Wonder Drug by Zaachariaha Fielding, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; photo: Saul Steed.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this exhibition are those of the artists and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Gallery.