Banner Image: Local prize winner Tina Stefanou photography by Jamie Robertson
This program is presented by Nillumbik Shire Council
Tour of the prize:
Thursday the 11th of May 6:30pm - 8:00pm | The Barn Gallery | Montsalvat
Join the curators and winning artists for a group tour of the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2023 exhibition. 1 tour only.
This event is part of the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2023 public program.
FREE. Includes wine and cheese. Bookings essential.
Laresa Kosloff – Open Prize Winner
Tina Stefanou – Local Prize Winner
Jarryd Martyn – Mayor’s Award winner
Image captured by Jamie Robertson
(Pictured - Jarryd Martyn, Laresa Kosloff and Tina Stefanou)
Laresa Kosloff makes performative videos, short films, audio and participatory artworks. Her practice examines various representational strategies, each one linked by an interest in the body and its agency within the everyday. Some of her projects are structured around language, whilst others use slapstick physicality to communicate ideas. Her recent stock footage films use humour to explore themes of duplicity, neoliberalism and the climate crisis. Laresa is represented by Sutton Gallery in Melbourne.
Instagram: @laresa.kosloff Tina Stefanou
With a background as a vocalist, Tina Stefanou works with a diverse range of mediums in an embodied practice she refers to as a ‘voice in the expanded field’. Informed by diasporic and working-class experiences, Stefanou assembles performers and materials with varied skillsets and from diverse environments and species to provoke re-assessments of culture and knowledge production.
Instagram:_the_longest_hum
Website: www.tinastefanou.com
Jarrad Martyn practice explores humanity’s relationship with the natural environment and how different historical events are framed. Through painting and drawing Martyn employs the principle of bricolage, something constructed from a diverse range of things, to collate academic research and its associated imagery to create an alternate conversation.
Online profiles are: https://www.instagram.com/jarradmartyn/ www.jarradmartyn.com https://www.facebook.com/JarradMartynArt
This program is presented by Nillumbik Shire Council
ARTIST TALKS
Arrayah Loynd & Ayman Kaake
Saturday the 27th of May 3:00pm - 4:30pm - The Barn Gallery | Montsalvat
Join Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art finalists, Arrayah Loynd and Ayman Kaake, in conversation at Montsalvat's Barn Gallery. Wine and cheese included.
This event is part of the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2023 public program.
FREE
Image: courtesy of the artist
(Pictured: Ayman Kaake)
Image: courtesy of the artist
(Pictured: Arrayah Loynd)
Arrayah Loynd is a lens based conceptual artist whose work explores themes of memory, trauma, neurodivergence, the female experience and otherness. She works with altered/expanded photography, archival imagery and mixed media.
Born in the UK and raised in Australia, Arrayah works as a freelance artist and has taught photography at various educational institutions within Australia specialising in concept development and fine art printing. Her work has been featured in various Australian and International publications, art prizes and awards including Lensculture, Head On Photo Awards, PhotoLucida Critical Mass, and Australian Photography Awards.
WEB: arrayahloynd.com - (https://arrayahloynd.com)
IG: @arrayahloyndphotographer - (https://www.instagram.com/arrayahloyndphotographer/?hl=en)
Ayman Kaake (he/him) is a queer award-winning Lebanon-born Australian photo-media visual artist currently based in Melbourne's inner northern suburbs. He explores diasporic melancholy and the agony of exile through contemplative portraiture and sculptural, styled poses.
His many accomplishments include being 2022 finalist at the National Photographic Portrait Prize and Bowness Prize, the winner of Midsumma and Australia Post Award, the winner of the small Work Art Prize at Brunswick Street Gallery, the recipient of Room to Create residency at Collingwood Yards 2020.
instagram: @aymankaake
Website: aymankaake.com
