Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware this exhibition has names of people who have passed.
The John Stringer Prize was established in 2015 in honour of internationally acclaimed Australian curator, the late John Stringer (1937–2007). The Prize is a non-acquisitive, annual award aimed at recognising and supporting outstanding Western Australian visual art practice. The six finalists for 2022 are Amanda Bell, Bruno Booth, Jacky Cheng, Janet Dreamer, Guy Louden and Holly Yoshida. They were commissioned to create work from which the winning artist was determined by a secret ballot conducted by The Collectors Club members. In the months leading up to the Prize, members of The Collectors Club visited each of the nominated artists’ studios and intimately came to know their work.
Artists featured: Amanda Bell, Bruno Booth, Jacky Cheng (winner), Janet Dreamer, Guy Louden and Holly Yoshida
2022’s John Stringer Prize also shows the late Mrs. Janet Dreamer’s work Walkabout, as a tribute to the leading artist and matriarch of the Halls Creek arts community, Yarliyil Arts.
Opening Event: 6 October 2022
Exhibition: 7 October – 4 December 2022
Supported By: The Collectors Club The JCG Navigators
Header Image: Jacky Cheng, …that awaits at the end of life, 2022. Kozo papers, joss papers, paper pine, kibiso, bonded nylon thread and video, panel 1: 350 cm x 37 cm, panel 2: 650 cm x 37 cm, panel 3: 480 cm x 37 cm, panel 4: 780 cm x 37 cm. John Stringer Prize 2022, John Curtin Gallery. Photographer: Sue-Lyn Moyle.
