Jahnne Pasco-White’s messmates1 has won the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery’s biennial $50,000 acquisitive award for Australian artists. messmates 1 is part of a body of work comprising 11 overlapping panels, presented for exhibition in Melbourne earlier this year. The artist explores notions of waste, renewal and regeneration as she incorporates old clothes and other collected detritus into the work and overpaints in bright and earthy tones. In making the selection, the judges, who included Tansy Curtin, (Curatorial Manager, Bendigo Art Gallery), Tracy Cooper-Lavery (Director of HOTA, Queensland) and Roslyn Feeney (representing the Guy family) noted: “Pasco-White’s visceral work pushes the limits of the medium itself; it’s raw, layered and vibrant with an incredible surface texture and palette. It is emblematic of the artist’s life and current prac
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