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ABC News
2 days ago
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- ABC News
Jack Ball wins $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize at Art Gallery of South Australia
Jack Ball has won the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize for an artist under 40 for their installation Heavy Grit. The Ramsay prize, announced today at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), is awarded every two years and is open to young Australian artists working in any medium. Ball was inspired to make the installation — which combines photography and sculpture — after they encountered a collection of scrapbooks from the Australian Queer Archives in Melbourne. As a trans man, they were particularly interested in press clippings from the 1950s and 70s about trans people — some were transphobic, while others showed instances of care and desire. Originally curated by Sarah Wall, Heavy Grit first opened at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in 2024. The judges for the Ramsay prize — Archibald winner Julie Fragar, head of visual art at the Queensland College of Art and Design; fellow artist Michael Zavros; and AGSA deputy director Emma Fey — were impressed by Heavy Grit's "experimental processes and sophisticated creative resolve". "We were particularly struck by the installation's restless, kinetic quality that refuses definition and creates an open opportunity to connect individually with the materials, forms and images the work deploys." The other 22 finalists in this year's prize — chosen from more than 500 entries — include Archibald Prize finalists Clara Adolphs and Jason Phu (also a former Ramsay finalist), and past finalists Emma Buswell, Liam Fleming, Alfred Lowe, Gian Manik, Tom Polo and James Tylor. Ball's work will be acquired by the gallery; past winners of the prize, which has run since 2017, are Vincent Namatjira, Sarah Contos, Kate Bohunnis and Ida Sophia. Fragar won the Ramsay's inaugural People's Choice prize in 2017. Ball is only the second Ramsay Art Prize winner to be based outside of South Australia; they live in Sydney, where they were born, but were raised in Perth. The Ramsay Art Prize exhibition runs May 31-August 31 at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
News.com.au
10-05-2025
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- News.com.au
Julie Fragar wins the 2025 Archibald Prize
This year's Archibald Prize has been awarded to Brisbane artist Julie Fragar. The portrait is titled "Flagship Mother Multiverse" and depicts fellow artist Justene Williams performing in New Zealand. As a four-time finalist, Ms Fragar said she had been working towards the award for her entire career.
Sky News AU
10-05-2025
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- Sky News AU
Julie Fragar wins the 2025 Archibald Prize
This year's Archibald Prize has been awarded to Brisbane artist Julie Fragar. The portrait is titled "Flagship Mother Multiverse" and depicts fellow artist Justene Williams performing in New Zealand. As a four-time finalist, Ms Fragar said she had been working towards the award for her entire career.
Sydney Morning Herald
09-05-2025
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- Sydney Morning Herald
It didn't stand out at first, but the Archibald Prize winner suits the times
Amid an epic mishmash of styles in this year's Archibald Prize, the judges have crowned the feminine and the cosmic in painter Julie Fragar's sepia-toned portrait of sculptor Justene Williams. In this large oil on canvas, Williams floats through space in a coarsely stitched stripey dress suggestive of a refashioned prison uniform. Barefoot, arms extended, she drifts among shooting stars and ethereal figures swirling in the darkness beyond. Untethered by gravity, Williams soars above the flotsam of a throwaway world, while mannequins (or possibly bots), TV antennas, turn-of-the-century birdcages, spindly wagon wheels, pine furnishings and metallic offcuts cling to the earth below. The portrait by the Sydney-trained Brisbane artist of a little-known sitter didn't initially resonate with those of us granted an early look at the exhibition. The judges opted for Fragar's abundant mixed messaging over the mastery of Natasha Bieniek's Cressida Campbell, the raw emotion of Chris O'Doherty's self-portrait, and even the fun Jason Phu had with Hugo Weaving. However, it's easy to see its appeal to the trustees tasked with the unenviable job of choosing a winner from hundreds of open submissions. In a moment marked by global conflict, an untethered US president, artistic censorship by the very institutions meant to protect expression and the relentless encroachment of AI on creative livelihoods, perhaps only a gloriously bonkers painting wherein the feminine defiantly triumphs will do. Amen to that. Beyond the media frenzy of the Archibald, there is genuine delight to be found in this year's Wynne Prize, Australia's longest-running art prize, where during the past decade, Aboriginal artworks have increasingly come to the fore. This year's winner is Jude Rae, with an exceptional vertical landscape of Botany Bay's container terminal at pre-dawn, as seen from the artist's fourth-floor apartment on Redfern hill.
The Age
09-05-2025
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- The Age
It didn't stand out at first, but the Archibald Prize winner suits the times
Amid an epic mishmash of styles in this year's Archibald Prize, the judges have crowned the feminine and the cosmic in painter Julie Fragar's sepia-toned portrait of sculptor Justene Williams. In this large oil on canvas, Williams floats through space in a coarsely stitched stripey dress suggestive of a refashioned prison uniform. Barefoot, arms extended, she drifts among shooting stars and ethereal figures swirling in the darkness beyond. Untethered by gravity, Williams soars above the flotsam of a throwaway world, while mannequins (or possibly bots), TV antennas, turn-of-the-century birdcages, spindly wagon wheels, pine furnishings and metallic offcuts cling to the earth below. The portrait by the Sydney-trained Brisbane artist of a little-known sitter didn't initially resonate with those of us granted an early look at the exhibition. The judges opted for Fragar's abundant mixed messaging over the mastery of Natasha Bieniek's Cressida Campbell, the raw emotion of Chris O'Doherty's self-portrait, and even the fun Jason Phu had with Hugo Weaving. However, it's easy to see its appeal to the trustees tasked with the unenviable job of choosing a winner from hundreds of open submissions. In a moment marked by global conflict, an untethered US president, artistic censorship by the very institutions meant to protect expression and the relentless encroachment of AI on creative livelihoods, perhaps only a gloriously bonkers painting wherein the feminine defiantly triumphs will do. Amen to that. Beyond the media frenzy of the Archibald, there is genuine delight to be found in this year's Wynne Prize, Australia's longest-running art prize, where during the past decade, Aboriginal artworks have increasingly come to the fore. This year's winner is Jude Rae, with an exceptional vertical landscape of Botany Bay's container terminal at pre-dawn, as seen from the artist's fourth-floor apartment on Redfern hill.
