It’s so lovely to start the year off with some great news!

I’m feeling very humbled and delighted to be selected as a finalist in the ‘Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2022’ by judge Dr Andrew Frost, art critic, lecturer and broadcaster. The shortlist of finalists represents some of Australia’s most esteemed talent and I’m so proud to be represented amongst so many incredible artistic peers.

The Adelaide Perry Gallery received over 400 entries for the 17th Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. The annual $25,000 acquisitive prize, generously supported by PLC Sydney Parents and Friends’ Association, drew entries from across Australia and the College was delighted to have the participation and expertise of Dr Andrew Frost who created a shortlist of 46 finalists (see below) for the award. Dr Frost returns to the Gallery in February to select the overall winner.

The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing Exhibition of Finalists 2022 is open to the public, by appointment only from 26 February – 25 March.
Gallery hours 8.30 am – 4.00 pm weekdays and 11.00 am – 4.00 pm Saturdays.

To make a booking please email adelaideperrygallery@plc.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations to this year’s finalists in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2022!

THE 2022 SHORTLISTED ARTISTS ARE:

I’m really excited about my upcoming exhibition at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery this February which includes works on paper and ceramics. Huge thanks to the lovely curatorial team Bronwyn Coulston and Bridget Macleod at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery for their incredible support and assistance in helping me make my show such a pleasurable experience.

Artist Statement:

…”I fell in love with a tree. As ludicrous as it sounds, this was no ordinary tree. It was a tree within a tree. And as my love for it grew, so did my need to connect with its environment.

This infatuation began in 2018 when I was Artist-in-Residence at Bundanon Trust. I made a subconscious connection to this tree through Arthur Boyd’s painting: ‘Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the tree’ 1966-69. The discovery took me on a journey like Nebuchadnezzar, on a lusting experience to creatively claim everything around me without any acknowledgement of God.

The exhibition illustrates personal and universal evocations exploring power, lust, greed, pleasure, guilt and emotional, spiritual and physical deprivation and highlights my ongoing interest in hybrid dialogues between art history and psychological phenomenons.

Each work on paper is accompanied by a response in clay to further reinforce surreal and existential insights into the artists’ work and creative process”.

- Louisa Chircop 2021

Due to Covid the official public opening of the exhibition has been cancelled however a private event may be organised at a later date and bookings will be made available via a bookings link.

THE 2022 SHORTLISTED ARTISTS ARE:

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