Congratulations to Zoe Amor Announced as Finalist in the Len Fox Painting Award 2024.
The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. The Len Fox Painting Award and generous acquisitive cash prize of $50,000 is funded through a bequest from Mona Fox.
Len Fox judges Emma Busowsky and John Wolseley selected 56 finalists from over than 300 entries, the most the award has attracted to date.
Announcing the 2024 finalists:
Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi, Alice Wormald, Amanda Johnson, Amber Wallis, Angie de Latour, Anne Wallace, Anthea Kemp, Anthony Pelchen, Bill Sampson, Carla Tucker, Chow Banana, Dale Cox, David Moore, Deborah Walker, Dena Kahan, Eleanor Louise Butt, Elizabeth Nelson, Ella Dunn, Emily Feretti, Emma Coulter, Gabrielle Martin, Geordie Gem Williamson, Grant Nimmo, Helen McInnis, Jacqui Stockdale, Jacquie Meng, Jo Davenport, Joel Arthur, Jonathan Nichols, Judith Van Heeren, Julia Ciccarone, Karan Hayman, Kate McKenzie Lewis, Kate Tucker, Katherine Hattam, Kevin Chin, Kir Larwill, Lori Pensini, Lorna Quinn, Mark Dober, Mark Rodda, Mary Tonkin, Michelle Zuccolo, Moya McKenna, Nadine Christensen, Naomi Hobson, Nellie Ngampa Coulthard, Rhett D'Costa, Robert Fielding, Sid Pattni, Stephen Bush, Stephen Pleban, Tai Snaith, Wendy Stavrianos, Wendy Teakel and Zoe Amor.
Artist statement:
"In art everything must start from the springboard of nature...But in the studio one paints to express oneself, and must be a master”. - E. Phillips Fox.
"Hiraeth is a sense - a deep, nostalgic longing for something, someone that may no longer be accessible – compelling us to find the significance of this to ourselves, in a medium comparable to its effect. It is like love – observable, powerful, dimensional – an artefact we’ve not invented yet are capable of perceiving that transcends time and space, connecting us to our ancestors, place, partners, children.
In art love is interchangeable with light - timeless qualities and quantities bringing shimmering waves of colour to our eyes and fields of atmospheric impressions to our minds expressed as feelings, thoughts, dreams, memories.
I remember being alone upon the slopes of a green oval, under skies of violet blue, white and gold, grinding small red and yellow rocks with stone and spit, painting bark and leaves, hands and knees. History bears down on me – I mingle blood with ochre, linseed oil making the ground darker with oxidisation. No longer a portrait but an approach from one who looks without being seen – an invitation to connect through our gaze" - Zoe Amor.
Recognised artwork - Hiraeth, Oil, Earth Pigments and Blood on Canvas, 142 x 122 cm.
August 21, 2024
