Artist Society of Canberra president Alan Jones said the event, which is supported by an ACT heritage grant, is registered as a Canberra region Heritage Festival event and pays tribute to the fact that the ACT region is rich in both natural and cultural healing heritage planning over 20,000 years, a fact alluded to by Ngunnawal elder Wally Bell in his lively welcome to country.
It represents a unique collaboration between artists and environmentalists in the region and is accompanied by an exhibition of photographs showing active restoration of the land by local people.
“Best-in-Show”, the Icon Water Prize of $2000, went to Annette Rennie for her oil painting, “Scrivener Dam”, which McLean said had “great impact for a small work beautiful and confident handling medium, great sense of scale”.
The Molonglo Catchment Group Art Prize of $500 went to Zhanna Stevens for her pastel “Descended from the Sky”, described by McLean as showing “expressive handling of medium, great atmospheric effects”. McLean told those present that she liked the Idea of soldiers/people as our heritage, which is the theme of the competition.
Artists Society of Canberra and ACT Catchment Group’s art competition and exhibition, in the Fitters’ Workshop, Kingston foreshore, 10am–5pm, until April 21.
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