2017 ’USU CREATIVE AWARDS’
5 OCTOBER – 14 OCTOBER, 2017
USU Creative Awards, 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: From the left, there is a plinth with a vinyl of the ocean coating it, and a shiny gold circle sculpture sitting on top of the plinth. Next to it is two small fabric works, each having an abstract photographic resemblance. To the right wall, there is a white canvas with a painting of a bouquet of flowers, with a plinth next to it of a cylindrical sculpture. With three black and white photographs laid out vertically to the far right of the wall.
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
A shortlist of works from the USU Creative Awards will be exhibited at Verge Gallery during Verge Festival. Exhibiting Creative Awards artists include: Anja Bless, Stephen Burstow, Dream Catcher, Andrew Dong, Madeline Fountain, Emily Halloran, Jeanie Ho, Alexandra Jonscher, Gillian Kayrooz, Harry Klein, Alina Leung, Brent Liang, Danielle Lincon, Laura Moore, Yiu Nam, Kim Nguyen, Shae Caroline Potter, Shababa Salim, Andrew Simms, Alexis Weaver, and Sarah Woodward.
The USU Creative Awards gives student artists from all University of Sydney campuses and faculties a chance to showcase and publish their work to peers, industry professionals and the local community. The USU Creative Awards categories were: art, word, and music. The student artists had the chance to win $10,000 worth of prizes and be titled as the Grand Prize winner. All entries were judged by alumni and industry professionals. Alongside the USU Creative Awards was a student showcase that featured works from former Sydney College of the Arts students: Bethan Cotterill, Bernadette Smith, and Stephanie Tsimbourlas.
USU Creative Awards, 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: On the left hand side, there is an abstract work on a black background. It has small illustrated details and shaped like an eye, with various colours filling the inside of it. On the back wall, there are two white shelves holding various ceramic pots, with a small table beneath it that has a small green plant on top. To the right there are more white shelves with ceramic pots, and a television screen that has a reflection of the first work on it.
USU Creative Awards, 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: To the left, there is a cream coloured framed work, that has a crochet like texture in it, with missing crochet bits within it. On the floor beneath, there are three cinder blocks with a block of cement sitting on each one. To the right there is a series of photographs that are of a person in different poses of objects. With the last artwork, it is a painting of a child’s face smothered with clear plastic play balls.
USU Creative Awards, 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: On the left, there is a framed image of a person with their tongue out, the bottom half has been distorted to make it look like the tongue is extended across the image. In the middle there is a white shelf with two small abstract sculptures sitting above it. Next to it is a black and white image of an empty plane.