Further Basil Sellers Art Prize 2010 awards
As the Basil Sellers Art Prize 2010 exhibition at the University of Melbourne's Ian Potter Museum of Art comes to a close, the philanthropic generosity and significant creative career support from Basil Sellers has continued with the announcement of two further important awards. The Yarra Trams People's Choice award, valued at $5,000, voted on most popular appeal by visitors to the Exhibition, was presented by Michel Masson, CEO, Yarra Trams to painter Juan Ford. Ian Potter Museum Director Dr Chris McAuliffe said Ford's work sought to create new possibilities for realism in painting. 'His work in this exhibition focuses upon anamorphic projection, a distortion of perspective employed by advertisers in major sporting events,' he said The 2010 Basil Sellers National Sports Museum Creative Arts Fellowship was awarded to Ponch Hawkes, for a prize valued at $50,000. The Creative Arts Fellowship, an artist-in-residency program at the National Sports Museum, is designed to stimulate an artists? career and extend their association with sport. The fellowship was established in 2009 by Basil Sellers and the inaugural award went to Melbourne-based artists Kate Daw and Stewart Russell who developed a collaborative project with Indigenous communities, linking the dusty red Yuendumu football oval in the Northern Territory with the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The prestigious $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize was awarded this year to Perth-based artists Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont for their video artwork, 'Gymnasium, 2010' .
