Watershed Art Prize Honours

Winner of the traditional category, Andrea Louis.

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

First Prize: Dry Creek (video) Artist: Susan O’Malley This piece was submitted on behalf of a group of students at St Paul’s College, Gilles Plains and formed part of work created via the Catholic Education SA STEM XR Challenge.

“This project took on a sustainability-incorporated augmented reality exploration of Dry Creek,” Susan said.

Runner Up: Concerto for a Little Stream Artist: Chuyau (Titlia) Liu

MAYOR AWARD

First Prize: Fire Path Artist: David Taylor “Environmental issues are very important to me,” said David, who had decided he wanted to be an artist by age four.

“As well as painting, I do a lot of writing about environmental issues and in 2019 I won a Banjo Patterson Award.”

David constructed Fire Path on a black canvas, which made for a striking contrast between the colours representing the different elements (red-fire, yellow-air, blue-water and green-earth), as well as allowing for the work to be interpreted as either night or day.