HATCHED HAS TURNED 20!
Hatched has been the launching pad for the professional careers of many of the country’s most successful contemporary artists. Presenting its 20th year, the exhibition has been exclusively presented by PICA since 1992. It is a landmark occasion for both Hatched and PICA and firmly places the event as one of the most significant fixtures on Perth’s cultural calendar.
The show always offers a broad array of mediums and new approaches to contemporary art practice. Hatched 2011 was no exception. 35 artists from 20 of the country’s most prestigious art institutions have embraced diverse art forms, such as painting, collage, photography, ceramics, printmaking, textiles, performance, video, sound art and mechanical engineered installations to express their social concerns. The show saw an ambitious group of artists keen to critique the conditions of our time, unpacking issues such as ethics, consumerism, depression and body image.
Every available space within PICA’s vast building was dedicated to the show. Public and educational programs were be held throughout the exhibition period so that audiences can engage with the artists and their ideas.
The Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize, this year valued at $35,000, was awarded to one outstanding Hatched artist. This new award combined with the show’s reputation for showcasing the work of the country’s best art school graduates has led to Hatched quickly gaining recognition as Australia’s premier art exhibition for emerging artists. The winner of the art prize was announced to be Elliot Hughes from the University of NSW at the opening on 15 April 2011.
Elliot Hughes is a Sydney-based photographer and video artist. His practice is preoccupied with various structural determinants within social life and art that both contour and enable human action and behaviour. His work incorporates aesthetic interventions contrary to the usual ways in which the findings of the social sciences are presented and the way in which conventional documentaries are composed.
His 17 minute high definition video Structures to move to (conversations on work), 2010 was judged to be a stand out in the collection of works by 35 different graduate artists. It is an introspective piece, exploring the way 3 different people interpret the work they do and what it means to their lives.
The exhibition opened on Friday 15 April 2011.
Exhibition Dates: 16 April to 5 June 2011.
Going Places: Live Performance
See Stephen Genovese’s live performance featuring battery-operated shoes every Saturday at 1:30pm in the Westend Gallery.
These free 15-minute performances continue until June 4.
Artists
Adam Adelpour – University of Sydney (NSW)
Boni Cairncross – University of Wollongong (NSW)
Darren Cook – University of Tasmania (TAS)
Inez de Vega – The University of Melbourne (VIC)
Courtney Elyse Prettejohn – TAFE South Australia (SA)
Daniela Imelda Eugster – Charles Darwin University (NT)
Ruth Feeney – The University of Newcastle (NSW)
Jasmine Fisher – The University of Melbourne (VIC)
Emi Fukuda – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (VIC)
Stephen Genovese – Central Institute of Technology (WA)
Caitlin Halsall – Griffith University (QLD)
William Heathcote – The University of Melbourne (VIC)
Elliot Hughes – The University of New South Wales (NSW)
Teagan Hunter – University of Wollongong (NSW)
Claire Krouzecky – University of Tasmania (TAS)
Kenneth Kronberger – University of Ballarat (VIC)
Jaynie Langford – University of South Australia (SA)
Jonathon Rodger Liddell – Southern Cross University (NSW)
Amy McGregor – Australian National University (ACT)
Jacob Ogden Smith – Curtin University of Technology (WA)
Johan Oevergaard – Monash University (VIC)
Rebecca Louise Orchard – Central Institute of Technology (WA)
Lizzie Pogson – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (VIC)
Ryan Presley – Griffith University (QLD)
Bruce Reid – Edith Cowan University (WA)
Tiffany Sassafrass – Southern Cross University (NSW)
Thomas James Savins – Southern Cross University (NSW)
Rohan Sibon – Edith Cowan University (WA)
Violette Stehli – University of Sydney (NSW)
Chris Thiel – Adelaide Central School of Art (SA)
Amy Thornett – The University of New South Wales (NSW)
Kate Vassallo – Australian National University (ACT)
Brooke Waldvogel – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (VIC)
Michal Wojtowicz – The University of Western Australia (WA)
Andrew Wood – The University of Western Australia (WA)
Schenberg Arts Award Winner:
Elliot Hughes (University of New South Wales) – $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship
