58TH ANNUAL HUNTERS HILL ARTS EXHIBITION
The idea of including local community artists with emerging and professional practitioners has proven to be a successful strategy for the Hunters Hill Council. Set in the idyllic garden surrounds and sandstone streets of NSW original ‘French Village’, the Hunters Hill Art Exhibition is the longest standing art awards in NSW and has been operating since 1955.
It seems befitting that the Hunter Hill Art Prize recipient is the contemporary realist artist Linda Joyce whose work Brittle Gums, features outback Australian themes with a depiction of an up close view of the landscape where the tops and bottom of trees are cropped.
Where many competitions narrow their stylistic options the serious intentions behind the four-headed awards is to construct a rich conversation between friends, visitors, artists and amateurs – this year over 320 works are featured. Installed in three historical venues, the exhibition becomes a contextual display marking milestones, thoughts, actions, protests, interactions, people, places, decisions and emotional responses.
Art today is full of celebrations and the continual flux of nature, constantly shifting colours and rhythms has ensured that this year’s plenitude has returned. (AS)
Until May 19, Hunters Hill Town Hall, 22 Alexandra St, Hunters Hill, free, (02) 9879 9400, huntershillarts.com
BY ANGELA STRETCH
