Bridie Gillman is a finalist in the 2023 Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize for her work 'Quiet, after the storm' (2023).
The inaugural Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize is a major acquisitive prize of $25,000, that seeks to explore our reciprocal and inextricable relationship with the environment through contemporary art.
Selected artworks provide unique perspectives on industrialised landscapes, the forces of extreme weather events, our relationship to domestic gardens, ecological concerns and speculative solutions, ruminations on the beauty and power of nature, and much more.
The finalists’ exhibition, is held at the Hervey Bay Regional Gallery 23 September to 12 November 2023
IMAGE:
Quiet, after the storm 2022
Oil on linen, glazed ceramics and soundscape
various dimensions