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Jasmine Middlebrook with her City of Dunedin Art Awards' prize-winning work 'Now I'm Not So Sure'. Photo by Peter McIntosh. |
Dunedin artist Jasmine Middlebrook has won the City of
Dunedin Art Awards for 2011.
Judged by Hocken Library pictorial collections curator
Natalie Poland, the awards, which included ceramics and
jewellery for the first time, were presented by the Otago Art
Society and Dunedin City Council at the Dunedin Railway
Station gallery last night.
Ms Middlebrook (24), who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine
Arts from Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 2010, was
awarded first prize for her oil on canvas Now I'm Not So
Sure.
"It's overwhelming. I'm at an opening [for my work] at De
Novo right now as well. This is a huge night."
The win was her fourth in national and local competitions in
the past year and she believed it validated the work she was
doing.
"The reception I've got from the public is an overwhelming
experience. I can't believe it."
Ms Poland described Miss Middlebrook as an "artist skilled in
her craft but also not afraid to take risks" and noted her
exploration of using different thicknesses of paint with
highly finished "incredibly life-like faces".
"It is an artist's conundrum - at what point is a painting
ever finished?"
The exhibition of works opens to the public today at the
Otago Art Society at Dunedin Railway Station.
Other awards.-
Second: Madeline Child Gorse getting away, ceramic;
Third: Olav Nielsen Fire mezzotint; Merit: Rod Eales
Shadows of Then acrylic on paper; Mayor's choice:
Nicole Kolig Universe ceramic.
- rebecca.fox@odt.co.nz
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