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Camping Continuum (Indian Ocean Drive WA) by Dr Susanna Castleden, winner of the 2013 Bankwest Art Prize<\/p>\nLugging 12 camping tables on a road trip from Perth to Geraldton along the Indian Ocean Drive was the core inspiration for a Â鶹ֱ²¥ Art lecturer\u2019s winning art work.<\/p>\n
Dr Susanna Castleden, Print Media Studio Coordinator at Curtin\u2019s department of Art, has won the 2013 Bankwest art prize – with her mixed media art work on 12 bolted vinyl camp top tables.<\/p>\n
The Bankwest Art prize, established in 2001 and worth $30,000, is considered to be one of the most prestigious and generous art competitions in Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Dr Castleden\u2019s work titled Camping Continuum (Indian Ocean Drive WA) was chosen from 19 WA finalists and will now be part of the Bankwest art collection.
\nOut of 109 applicants, 19 artists were shortlisted as finalists, which included Curtin staff and alumni, Nicole Slatter, Thea Costantino, Juha Tolonen and Tom Muller.<\/p>\n
The winning piece, part of Dr Castleden\u2019s PhD thesis project, was inspired by her personal travel stories.<\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up travelling a lot as a kid, which is why I think my PhD was particularly focused on ways which you can visualise travel,\u201d Dr Castleden said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this series of works I was looking at how to capture that sense of caravanning and travelling in an Australian way,\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe camping tables themselves have the evidence of movement and travel on them because they have scratches, dents and tears,” she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started to draw on the surface of them imagery associated with caravans and being a great nomad and being around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sandra Murray, the Bankwest exhibition curator said this year\u2019s exhibition was of a high standard.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur judges deliberated for a long time before selecting the winner\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the finalists\u2019 works feature exceptional qualities and the variety of sizes reflected artists embracing more freedom of scale allowed in this year\u2019s prize.\u201d
\nMs Murray said the winning piece stood out as it reflected Australian childhood, camping and caravanning.<\/p>\n
Camping Continuum (Indian Ocean Drive WA) by Dr Susanna Castleden, winner of the 2013 Bankwest Art Prize<\/p>\n
Dr Castleden, a Curtin Alumni, thanked the University in her acceptance speech for their ongoing support for her art practice and teaching career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI acknowledge Curtin for the six months leave that I had, not only to finish my PhD but to make a piece of work like that, is so time consuming,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
After completing a seven year long PhD at RMIT University, Dr Castleden hopes to showcase her work in Perth and continue supervising future PhD students.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to try and show the body of work that I exhibited in Melbourne for my PhD, I\u2019d like to show it in Perth as a body of work,\u201d Dr Castleden said.<\/p>\n
The Bankwest exhibition will be open to the public at the Bankwest Art Gallery until March 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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