PETER WESTWOOD IS THE 2016 BAYSIDE ACQUISITIVE ART PRIZE WINNER

Blockprojects congratulates Peter Westwood who has won the 2016 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize at The Gallery @ BACC and Bayside City Council at the opening celebration. The Major Prize of $15,000 was awarded to Peter Westwood for his work Passivity: after ‘an episode from a fight' 2015, oil on linen mounted on dibond, 149 x 79cm.

The judges stated that, “Westwood’s painting combines elements of abstraction and realism in an image that offers as many interpretations as there are viewers.”

“This work speaks with delicacy and restraint, creating layered pictorial references and evoking complex and powerful emotions. But underlying all is a strong sense of humankind’s unavoidable enmeshment in the natural and psychological worlds.”

JUDGES
Kirsty Grant, CEO and Director Heide Museum of Modern Art, Guy Abrahams, CEO and Co-Founder of CLIMARTE, and Julie Skate, Gallery Supervisor at The Gallery @ BACC together with Bayside Mayor, James Long, Cr Felicity Frederico and Cr Heather Stewart who undertook the final judging of the Local Art Prize.