Saturday, August 27, 2005

Wots Hot in Sydney

Contrary to my previous plg - of not wanting to become some sort of arbiter of cool - I am forwarding some info on the official ubercool megabuck prize for the latest hip youf art happening types.
Yep! its the Helene Lempriere . Properly pronounced Lom Pri Yeah, or Lame Prix Yeah by disgruntled anti conceptual types, or Lamp Ray by Lazy bastards such as Moi, the prize cash is $40,000.

Its bigger than the whitely, and not far off the Moran or theArchibald.
Further more it has the cache of being uber cool - and is approp[riately situated in Artspace.

So if you wanna see who and what the big punters reckon is really hapeening then breeze on down to wolloomoloo on Wednesday Night. Grab a pie and stroll accross the road to the gunnery. Hope the goon is good.

The judges this year - are pretty nice - Rosemary (flying brides) Laing and Euan (Skinny Men & chunky grey paint) McLeod plus Tony Bond to lend the Agnes Wales art institutional cred.

The lineup looks pretyt good - with Most names and works being regulars on the ARI circuit. Whoever wins - it is always UNFAIR. Bloody hell! $40,000! Do you know what I could do with that?????? On the other hand - if you're gonna score a shitload of cash then its probably better to do so when you've got nothing to start with.........

Official Details follow.

HELEN LEMPRIERE TRAVELLING ART SCHOLARSHIP 2005

zehra AHMED
zanny BEGG
lauren BRINCAT & william FRENCH
simon COOPER

alex DAVIES
jacqui DRINKALL
nicholas FOLLAND

kirsten FARRELL
hayden FOWLER
marita FRASER

david GRIGGS
owen LEONG

jess MACNEIL
damien MARCH
wade MARYNOWSKY

julie MASTERTON
vanila NETTO

Ms & Mr
huseyin SAMI
aaron SEETO

george TILLIANAKIS
mimi TONG
matthew TUMBERS

simon YATES

Owen Leong
The 2005 recipient will be announced by

Dr CHARLES MEREWETHER
Curator, 2006 Biennale of Sydney
Jess MacNeil
The judges for the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship 2005 are

Anthony Bond, General Manager, Curatorial Services, AGNSW
Rosemary Laing, Sydney-based artist
Euan Macleod, NSW-based artist.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Go Owen!

Anonymous said...

My Money is on Owen too - hmmm lots of dosh for more of those luscious lambda prints..........

Tho it'd be nice if Zanny or Jess got it. Mr. & Mrs. or Aaaron Seto would make me cross - not that it effects much apart from my SP booking returns.