Holly Anderson is a finalist in the 2024 Mosman Art Prize with her painting The Graph.
'In The Graph, a curtain’s stripes map the journey of the Sun between midday and afternoon. These bursts of sunlight appear as circles of white negative space in the painting, creating an odd spatial dynamic where the Sun could seem both inside and outside the room. The dense patternation of the curtain creates a scintillating effect, echoing the effects of bright sunlight on vision. Stripes and grids are used across Anderson’s work to systematise space and observe the ways fleeting light phenomena threaten coherent spatial logic. This project is an approach to landscape painting, an attempt to develop a pictorial language for the perceptual puzzles, illusions and strangeness of the lit up world.'
The Mosman Art Prize is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since 1947.
Congrats Holly!
Finalists exhibition dates: 10 August - 6 October
Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
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