Monash University Art Prize
Dates:
3 November 1995 – 24 February 1996
Artists:
Lauren Berkowitz, Stephen Bram, Vicente Butron, Sadie Chandler, A.D.S. Donaldson, Colin Duncan, Mikala Dwyer, Fiona Foley, Marco Fusinato, Diena Georgetti, Helga Groves, Mathew Jones, Anne-Marie May, Callum Morton, Deborah Ostrow, Kerrie Poliness, r e a, David Rosetzky, Kathy Temin, Gary Wilson, Constanze Zikos
Location:
Monash University Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
Conceived as an event to support and celebrate excellence in contemporary visual practice among emerging artists, this inaugural prize exhibition featured work produced in 1995 by twenty-one young artists from Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Selected by the Gallery’s curatorial team, the participants represented a broad spectrum of contemporary ideas and media.
Two works from the exhibition were acquired for the Monash University Collection. Callum Morton's 24 Hrs, 1995, is a sculptural installation modelled after a generic convenience store awning—an urban fragment removed from the street and recontextualised within the gallery space. Mathew Jones’s Big Painting (RIOT #1: DEAD), a synthetic polymer paint on canvas work composed of four conjoined panels (two stacked upon two), spells out the word ‘DEAD’. Positioned as a site of relation, agitation and refusal, the work explores how queerness is both refuted and appropriated.
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Image: Monash University Art Prize exhibition brochure (detail)