Three out of ten prizes, including Best Overall Artwork, go to Spinifex Hill Artists at Cossack, the richest acquisitive art award in regional Australia.

Spinifex Hill Studio artist Gloria was awarded the prize for Best Overall Artwork while Eileen Tinker and Maggie Green were awarded Best Artwork by a Pilbara Artist and Painting by a Pilbara Indigenous Artist.

The 2019 Judges described Gloria’s work as ‘A painterly and abstract piece that feels traditional, but in a western way. The result being a piece that perhaps is pushing the boundaries of what we "think" Indigenous art is. The placement of colours is stunning and creates a rich earthiness and connectivity to Country with an impressionistic blend of both the traditional and non-traditional. An artwork that could happily sit in any contemporary art category internationally and one that we could keep looking at for hours.’

The Cossack Art Awards are presented by City of Karratha and Rio Tinto Western Australia.

COSSACK
20 July, 2019

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