Emerging Artist Award

The City of South Perth’s Emerging Artist Award returns in 2022 for its twentieth year.

With a prize pool of over $15,000, the Emerging Artist Award 2022 provides young and emerging artists with an opportunity to exhibit their work to the wider community.

Entries in the Emerging Artist Award 2022 are now closed.

Residents and visitors are invited to come and see this annual display of outstanding creative talent while the exhibition is open to the public from 10am-4pm from Friday 14 October - Saturday 22 October 2022 (closed Sunday). This is a unique opportunity to see diverse artworks, vote for your favourite piece to win the People’s Choice Award, and to consider purchasing a new work from an up-and-coming artist for your private collection.

A series of events will be held for the community to get creative while enjoying the exhibition.

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2022 Judges

The City of South Perth is delighted to have the expertise of four experienced local arts professionals assisting with the selection of works for the exhibition, determining the winners of each prize category (excluding People’s Choice Award) and the curation of the exhibition.

The Emerging Artist Award 2022 judging panel is:

• Stuart Elliott (Artist/Writer)
  Stuart Elliott has been a leading contributor to the visual arts in Western Australia as a painter, sculptor, lecturer, curator and writer over more than three decades.
  
  Elliott was the subject of a monograph by Dr David Bromfield in 2003, and was awarded an Artsource Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.  He was the third Western Australian artist commissioned by The Syndicate group of public patrons resulting in a group of sculptures, “The Council” completed in 2017.
  
  Elliott’s recent work is inspired by the collision of industry and nature and is informed by his unique concept of fakeology - making museum-like objects that are encoded with cross-cultural ideas.
  
  Elliott’s paintings and sculptures are held in many public collections, including the he Art Gallery of WA, Sanyi Museum Taiwan ROC, Curtin University, University WA, Murdoch University, Edith Cowan University, BankWest, Holmes á Court Collection and Kerry Stokes Collection.

• Paola Anselmi (Curator/Arts Writer)
  Paola Anselmi is a Perth-based curator and arts writer. Paola has curated numerous exhibitions and undertaken public and private collection development and public art projects across the State.
  
  Paola writes regularly for a range of Australian arts publications including exhibition publications, major monographs, and art journals. Since 1990 she has held curatorial and research roles at the Art Gallery of WA where she curated the first major survey exhibition of Ian Burn’s early work Ian Burn; Minimal-Conceptual Work 1965-1970 (1992), the Royal Perth Hospital Art Collection, The Perth Centre for Photography, the City of Fremantle Art Collection, the City of Perth, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.

• Kathleen Toomath (Artist/Manager Carrolup Centre, John Curtin Gallery)
  Kathleen Toomath is a Menang woman of the Great Southern, Western Australia. As Carrolup Manager at John Curtin Gallery, Kathleen continues to help safeguard the treasured collection of artworks created by Nyungar children of Australia’s Stolen Generations.
  
  Her arts career began as an 11-year-old when she won an International Children’s Art competition in Japan. She went on to study fine arts, majoring in sculpture, and received a Diploma in Performing Arts from ABMUSIC. Working across the sector, as a contemporary musician on drums and percussion, she has worked in community radio and event coordination with the City of Perth‘s Indigenous Skyshow events.
  
  With over 42  years’ experience working in the arts sector, Kathleen has held positions in the Museum of the Great Southern in Aboriginal Education and Community Liaison, Department of Culture and the Arts, Lottery west and is still a practicing artist with a passion for 3 dimensional sculptural expressions.

The Emerging Artist Award 2022 will be curated by:

• Ron Nyisztor (Artist/Manager and director of Nyisztor Studio)
  Ron Nyisztor was born in Fremantle and gained his Bachelor of Arts in Design at the WA Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) in 1979.  Ron works with a wide range of materials and subjects and has exhibited regularly since 1989.  An important contributor to the Western Australian art scene, Ron set up and runs Nyisztor Studio, an independent artist run space in Melville.
  
  Ron’s paintings are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Royal Perth Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, Federal Court of Australia, Australian Capital Equity, Industrial Relations Commission of WA, City of Fremantle and Perth Office of the National Native Tribunal.

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Photos

Photos of Emerging Artist Award winners were published on the City's Flickr Gallery.

To request a copy of any of the award photos, please contact the City's events team on 9474 0777 or email events@southperth.wa.gov.au.