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Ramsay Art Prize 2021
Congratulations to Kate Bohunnis, winner of the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize 2021, the nation’s most generous prize for Australian artists under forty, with the work edges of excess.
The winning work is a kinetic sculpture. A pendulum, made from metal and fabricated by the artist herself, swings over a slumped fleshy form made from silicone. The sculpture references divination tools used in spiritual healing introduced to the artist as a child.
The judges were unanimous in their appreciation of the work and describe it as conceptually rigorous and technically resolved with an inventive approach to materials, that speaks to the precarity of our times.
Bohunnis' Ramsay Art Prize 2021 entry now becomes part of AGSA's collection.
This year twenty-four finalists were selected by a judging panel of contemporary art specialists comprised of Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens, Dr Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Director of Programs at Carriageworks and Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts & Design at AGSA.
The finalists are
Hoda Afshar (VIC), Cigdem Aydemir (NSW), Ella Barclay (ACT), Nathan Beard (WA), Kate Bohunnis (SA), Sam Cranstoun (QLD), Dean Cross (NSW), Zaachariaha Fielding (SA), Liam Fleming (SA), Julia Gutman (NSW), Solomon Kammer (SA), Kieren Karritpul (NT), Juanella McKenzie (SA), Daniel McKewen (QLD), Alasdair McLuckie (VIC), Hayley Millar Baker (VIC), Nabilah Nordin (VIC), Tom O'Hern (TAS), Tom Polo (NSW), Anna Madeleine Raupach (ACT), Anna Louise Richardson (WA), Lisa Sammut (ACT), Nicola Smith (NSW) and Kasia Tons (SA).
People’s Choice Prize Winner Announced
The winner of the $15,000 Ramsay Art Prize 2021 People's Choice Prize supported by LK is Hoda Afshar with her work Agonistes.
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installation view: Ramsay Art Prize 2021 featuring Agonistes by Hoda Afshar, 2020; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; photo: Saul Steed.
Presented by
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James and Diana Ramsay Foundation
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People's Choice Prize
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LK logo 2021
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Hoda Afshar
Born in Tehran, Hoda Afshar is an artist based in Narrm (Melbourne) who works with photography and the moving image to explore the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making...
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Cigdem Aydemir
Cigdem Aydemir’s socially and politically engaged practice takes interest in postcolonial and feminist issues, and frequently explores the veil as a symbol of cultural identity...
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Ella Barclay
Ella Barclay explores the complex yet universal experience of living in a networked world...
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Nathan Beard
Nathan Beard is a multidisciplinary artist who unpacks the influences of culture, memory and authenticity drawing upon his Australian-Thai heritage...
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Kate Bohunnis
Focusing on identity, gender and queer perspectives, Bohunnis’ installations connect materials with psychological states and behaviours...
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Sam Cranstoun
Encompassing drawing, painting, video and sculpture, Sam Cranstoun’s practice examines power structures and the potential for images to shape historical narratives...
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Dean Cross
Dean Cross is an artist of Worimi descent interested in colliding materials, ideas and history...
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Zaachariaha Fielding
“I was raised on desert country in the eastern Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, and come from a long line of multi-disciplinary artists..."
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Liam Fleming
Technically trained as a glass-blower, Liam Fleming's architecturally inspired practice is grounded in the most precise of techniques...
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Julia Gutman
Living and working on Gadigal Country (Sydney), Julia Gutman alters found textiles to produce personal, narrative-driven installations...
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Solomon Kammer
Solomon Kammer's practice interrogates the relationship women have with their bodies. 'Perpetuity' is an exploration of consent, coercion, and trauma...
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Kieren Karritpul
Kieren Karritpul is a Ngen'giwumirri artist who lives in the small community of Nauiyu (Daly River) south west of Darwin...
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Juanella McKenzie
Juanella McKenzie is an Adnyamathanha and Luritja artist who combines ancient and modern practices to tell the stories of her people...
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Daniel McKewen
Daniel McKewen investigates the intersections of contemporary art, pop culture, economics and politics...
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Alasdair McLuckie
Through a formalist sensibility, Alasdair McLuckie's work investigates the legacy of Modernism, including its movements, styles and mythologies.
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Hayley Millar Baker
Hayley Millar Baker is a research-based artist who uses photography to interrogate the way memories are made through acts of remembering and misremembering...
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Nabilah Nordin
Nabilah Nordin's installations embrace wonky crafting techniques, and playfully celebrate the visceral and anthropomorphic qualities of materials...
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Tom O'Hern
Tom O'Hern's practice is centred around drawing and includes painting, murals and animation. O’Hern is drawn to the raw mark-making of graffiti, doodles, scratches and scrawls...
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Tom Polo
Based on Gadigal Country (Sydney), Tom Polo’s practice investigates how conversation and gestures can be transformed into portraiture...
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Anna Madeleine Raupach
Anna Madeleine Raupach’s practice explores the intersection of human and nonhuman timescales evident in climate change...
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Anna Louise Richardson
Based on Whadjuk Nyungar Country, Anna Louise Richardson investigates rural Australian identity and associated mythologies...
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Lisa Sammut
Lisa Sammut's playful and poetic works oscillate between themes of cosmic perspective, belief and time...
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Nicola Smith
Nicola Smith is interested in the relationship between cinema and painting. The past six years she has looked to the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman...
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Kasia Tons
Based on Peramangk Country, South Australia, Kasia Tons is a textile artist who draws inspiration from making outdoors...
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Podcasts
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Tuesday Talks - Rebecca Evans in conversation with 2021 Ramsay Art Prize Winner Kate Bohunnis
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Tuesday Talks - Rhana Devenport introduces the Ramsay Art Prize 2021