2011 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
Gallery 1
April 10 - May 22, 2011
Winner announced!
Darren Sylvester was announced as the 2011 winner of the $20,000 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography prize to a packed gallery on Saturday 9 April. His workWhat happens will happen, a large lightjet print in tones of orange and red caught the judge's eye among an incredibly strong field. Judge Shaune Lakin made these comments:
'Darren Sylvester’s What happens will happen is such a great photograph: a picture of the painted face of a beautiful teenager mistaking, in the artist’s cynical terms, social inclusion and consumption with protest and wilful action. Protest has often been about these things, but the phenomenon has never been given such a coherent (at once humorous, seductive and disarming) image. For me, this is what good photography is all about: encouraging me to look at and think about the world and how we make sense of it with photographs. This is not to say that Sylvester’s picture chose itself. There were many photographs among this year’s finalists that might have won the award, and works by two of Australia’s most established artists – Julie Rrap and Geoff Parr – have been awarded honourable mentions.'
About the Award
Now established as a key exhibition in the contemporary art calendar, our exhibition of selected finalists is a reflection of current practice nationally in still photography. Judge for 2011 is Shaune Lakin, Director, Monash Gallery of Art. The winner receives $20,000 prize and their work is acquired by Gold Coast City Gallery. The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation provides an additional $10,000 for acquisitions to the collection.
Now established as a key exhibition in the contemporary art calendar, our exhibition of selected finalists is a reflection of current practice nationally in still photography. Judge for 2011 is Shaune Lakin, Director, Monash Gallery of Art. The winner receives $20,000 prize and their work is acquired by Gold Coast City Gallery. The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation provides an additional $10,000 for acquisitions to the collection.
About the Judge
Dr Shaune Lakin is the Director of Monash Gallery of Art (MGA). MGA is Australia’s only public gallery dedicated to collecting Australian photography and has over a 21-year period built a nationally significant collection. MGA develops a diverse program of exhibitions around this collection, many of which tour Australia. The gallery’s current major exhibition Time machine: Sue Ford, curated by Lakin, presents a survey of the early work of this important Australian photographer, which will tour nationally throughout 2012–13.
Shaune Lakin was Senior Curator of Photography at the Australian War Memorial, where he wrote the first major history of Australian conflict photography and was curator of numerous exhibitions. Before joining the Memorial, he was Curator of International Painting and Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia, where he also worked on a number of major exhibitions and acquisitions. He has written widely on the history of Australian and International art, with a focus on American and Australian photography.
Free Public Program Events
Sat 7 May, 2.00pm - Josephine Ulrick Literature and Poetry Prize 2011
Darren SYLVESTER, What happens will happen 2010, lightjet print, edition AP #1, courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
Geoff PARR, Spectre 2011, digital print edition 1/3, courtesy of the artist and Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Julie RRAP, Outerspace #10 2010, digital print edition 1/5, courtesy of the artist and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
Selected artists for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2011 are -
Louise ALLERTON
Todd ANDERSON-KUNERT
Robert ASHTON
Narelle AUTIO
Donna BAILEY
Lyn BALZER & Anthony PERKINS
Rebecca BEARDMORE
Liam BENSON
Kate BERNAUER
Jane BURTON
Nigel CLEMENTS
Michael COOK
Nathan CORUM
Rebecca DAGNALL
Tamara DEAN
Damian DILLON
Anne FERRAN
Denise FERRIS
Joachim FROESE
Christopher FULHAM
Phillip GEORGE
Lee GRANT
Kelly HUSSEY-SMITH
Diego IBANEZ
Ingvar KENNE
Jeff LEVINGSTONE
Marita LILLIE
Anne MACDONALD
Eva MAROSY-WEIDE
Gregory McBEAN
Roderick McNICOL
Georgia METAXAS
Prudence MURPHY
Harry NANKIN
Ben Ali ONG
Polixeni PAPAPETROU
Geoff PARR
Debra PHILLIPS
Susan PURDY
Zorica PURLIJA
Helen PYNOR
Lynne ROBERTS-GOODWIN
Phil ROUBIN
Julie RRAP
Joanne SAAD
Sylvia SCHWENK
Sam SHMITH
Steven SIEWERT
Justin SPIERS
Jacqui STOCKDALE
Darren SYLVESTER
Innocenza TORITTO
Anya VAN LIT
Ken & Julia YONETANI
Todd ANDERSON-KUNERT
Robert ASHTON
Narelle AUTIO
Donna BAILEY
Lyn BALZER & Anthony PERKINS
Rebecca BEARDMORE
Liam BENSON
Kate BERNAUER
Jane BURTON
Nigel CLEMENTS
Michael COOK
Nathan CORUM
Rebecca DAGNALL
Tamara DEAN
Damian DILLON
Anne FERRAN
Denise FERRIS
Joachim FROESE
Christopher FULHAM
Phillip GEORGE
Lee GRANT
Kelly HUSSEY-SMITH
Diego IBANEZ
Ingvar KENNE
Jeff LEVINGSTONE
Marita LILLIE
Anne MACDONALD
Eva MAROSY-WEIDE
Gregory McBEAN
Roderick McNICOL
Georgia METAXAS
Prudence MURPHY
Harry NANKIN
Ben Ali ONG
Polixeni PAPAPETROU
Geoff PARR
Debra PHILLIPS
Susan PURDY
Zorica PURLIJA
Helen PYNOR
Lynne ROBERTS-GOODWIN
Phil ROUBIN
Julie RRAP
Joanne SAAD
Sylvia SCHWENK
Sam SHMITH
Steven SIEWERT
Justin SPIERS
Jacqui STOCKDALE
Darren SYLVESTER
Innocenza TORITTO
Anya VAN LIT
Ken & Julia YONETANI
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Poetry and Literature Prizes 2011 Winners
POETRY PRIZE
Winner: the loophole, or, how the sky ignores us by Maria Zajkowski
Judges’ comment: With great attentiveness to the nuances of language and the metaphysics they might imply, Maria Zajkowski uses poetry to haunt and to query, to play with the edges of experiences in a way that is far more than playful. Attuned to the force of simple clear words and the darknesses they bring with them, her poetry avoids recounting or preaching but instead opens up space. One can feel in this small, but significant, sample of poems the frisson of poetic engagement with life's unknowables.
Judges’ comment: With great attentiveness to the nuances of language and the metaphysics they might imply, Maria Zajkowski uses poetry to haunt and to query, to play with the edges of experiences in a way that is far more than playful. Attuned to the force of simple clear words and the darknesses they bring with them, her poetry avoids recounting or preaching but instead opens up space. One can feel in this small, but significant, sample of poems the frisson of poetic engagement with life's unknowables.
Second Prize: And then when the by Dan Disney
LITERATURE PRIZE
Winner: Tryst by Rachael S Morgan
Judges’ comment: The winning story, Tryst, is a story in the realist tradition which begins as an excellent depiction of the familiar Queensland – or Australian - pool-side barbecue attended by two or more families and which gradually becomes more unruly. The story is told from the point of view of two children - a boy and a girl - who should be in bed but who are secretly watching the party and they hide under a bed in a room of the house as footsteps approach. The boy’s father and the girl’s mother enter the room, become amorous, and are listened to by the children and partly seen by them from under the bed. The story has great tension and is for the children an introduction to an adult world and to a sexual world into which they will shortly enter, like it or not. An outstanding story which both judges felt stood out from the rest.
Judges’ comment: The winning story, Tryst, is a story in the realist tradition which begins as an excellent depiction of the familiar Queensland – or Australian - pool-side barbecue attended by two or more families and which gradually becomes more unruly. The story is told from the point of view of two children - a boy and a girl - who should be in bed but who are secretly watching the party and they hide under a bed in a room of the house as footsteps approach. The boy’s father and the girl’s mother enter the room, become amorous, and are listened to by the children and partly seen by them from under the bed. The story has great tension and is for the children an introduction to an adult world and to a sexual world into which they will shortly enter, like it or not. An outstanding story which both judges felt stood out from the rest.
Second Prize: Forgetting by Maya Linden
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