Burwood Art Prize 2024

Winners Announced!

Burwood Art Prize Winner, $10,000

Ali Tahayori
Self-portrait (Inverted Pink Triangle)
Dye sublimation print, hand-cut mirrors, silicone and acrylic paint on raw aluminium

Self-portrait (Inverted Pink Triangle) reflects complexities and nuances of queer diasporic identity and its (in)visibility. It incorporates Āina-kāri, a traditional Iranian craft made from imported European material (glass mirror) in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and used to decorate the interior of mosques and mausoleums. The inverted pink triangle has been a symbol of resistance for the queer community for decades and holds conflicting emotions. What was used as a badge of shame is reclaimed as a symbol of pride and love for queerness. The mirror fragments return the viewer’s gaze, questioning any perceived notion of identity.

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Burwood Youth Prize Winner, $1,500 & The People's Choice Award Winner, $1,000

Olivia Collar
I am liminal
Oil on canvas

My artwork, ‘I am liminal’, is a reflection of my experience as a bi-racial young person, navigating my sense of cultural identity within culturally dissonant surroundings. Liminality, in terms of identity, refers to the psychological space, or threshold, between two polarities. My artwork communicates how my identity does not conform to either one of these cultural polarities, but rather exists within the space between them, the liminal space.

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Burwood Local Prize Winner, $1,500

Anjani Mane
I would like to acknowledge....
Hybrid gouache-watercolour paint on hotpressed watercolour paper

This artwork aims to increase the visibility of living on unceded land. Through my experience, being from an Indian and “Australian” background, I explore what it means to be living on Wangal land, stolen as a result of colonisation. My own post-colonial presence continues this, whilst simultaneously acknowledging how India also suffered as a result of colonisation. I chose a self-portrait to reflect this, using the style of Indian miniature painting.

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2024 Burwood Art Prize Online Catalogue(PDF, 3MB)

Art Prize Judging Panel

Khaled Sabsabi

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Khaled was born in Tripoli, Lebanon and migrated with his family to Australia in 1976. He began his creative life in the ’80s as a socially-engaged hip hop artist, then evolving in the early 2000s to develop and produce countless art presentations, locally and internationally.

Khaled sees art as an effective tool to communicate and converse with people, through a familiar language, creating immersive and engaging experiences. He has worked in detention centres, schools, prisons, refugee camps, settlements, hospitals, youth centres, galleries and public spaces in the Australian and broader international context. He makes work that questions rationales and complexities of nationhood, identity and change, with continual transfer between the material and the philosophical.


Tian Zhang

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Tian Zhang is an independent curator, facilitator, writer and collaborative artist working at the intersections of art, cultural practice and social change. Her practice is underscored by conversation, criticality, solidarity and joy. She is a founding co-director of Pari, a collective-run gallery and community space for Parramatta.

Tian participated in Documenta Fifteen as co-facilitator of Gudskul's collective studies program — living, cooking, eating, cleaning and communing within the Museum Fridericianum for 50 days. Her text 'A manifesto for radical care or how to be a human in the arts' was first published online by Sydney Review of Books, with print editions by documenta fifteen’s Lumbung Press and Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Canada.


Marco Rinaldi

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Marco Rinaldi is an independent curator, installation artist, Founder/Co-Director of Passage Gallery, and Operations and Production Manager at Artspace, Sydney. Rinaldi has held various positions, including Creative Director of osmosis, Gallery Curator at Dominik Mersch Gallery, and Curatorial Assistant at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Across these roles, he has worked with more than 100 artists and presented over 40 exhibitions, events, listening experiences, public programs, and installations. Rinaldi holds a Masters of Curating and Cultural Leadership (With Excellence) from UNSW Art & Design and a Bachelor of Interior Design.


Brooke Endycott 

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Brooke has served as the Director Community Life at Burwood Council since 2020, playing a pivotal role in shaping the City’s long term vision for arts and culture and positioning Burwood as Sydney’s emerging cultural playground. With almost 20 years of experience in Local Government, including significant experience at the executive level, she holds expertise in arts and cultural planning and policy development, as well as leading the implementation of arts and cultural programming. This extends across creative events, festivals, artist development programs, exhibitions and public art initiatives aimed at promoting access and community participation in the arts.

She has also played a leading role in the development, delivery and operation of various community and cultural facilities across Sydney, including Burwood’s new Arts and Cultural Centre currently in development. 

 

For further enquiries, please email arts@burwood.nsw.gov.au.