Drawing is foundation my arts Practice. Essentially, I enjoy the physical mark making and textures within my works. My drawing practice is largely inspired by David Salle and Ron Kitaj among others. My compositions are a culmination of historical and local forms which are juxtaposed and yet somehow work as a unique composition. I dream these images up when travelling through the central west region where I reside.

We wish to also congratulate the following artists who have received highly commended for their pieces.

Emerging Artist Award and Highly Commended - Laurent Pouzet

Congratulations to Laurent Pouzet on their piece Mother.

Artist Statement

Highly Commended - Roz Avent

Congratulations to Roz Avent on their piece 9 Drawings in the Theme of Red.

Drawing is at the heart of my daily practice. It is where I explore rhythm, colour, and structure with immediacy and focus. Working with coloured pencil allows me to respond quickly, embracing both chance and intuition. Edges shift, colours fall into unexpected relationships, and interruptions occur that I could not have predicted. These experiments may lead to paintings, where the same concerns are expanded in scale and gesture.

The drawings I am submitting reflect this process. Each one investigates the stripe as a generative structure—both a constraint and a possibility. I use it to explore variation, irregularity, and surprise. The element of chance ensures that each drawing finds its own resolution without repetition.

For me, drawing is both process and outcome. These works stand independently but also inform my paintings, building on fifty years of sustained artistic practice.

Highly Commended - Angela Hayson

Congratulations to Angela Hayson on their piece The Dancers No.5 from the series Entanglement.

Artist Statement

My early training in drawing has been a significant influence on my art practice, having studied design for commercial and public interior spaces in the early 1980’s. From freehand sketching to developing ideas prior to technical drawing documentation in ink on tracing film, using instruments of construction; rulers, set squares and a compass.
I gained rigorous training in technical drawing and notation, and hand-eye coordination which is invaluable to my art practice. I continually sketch ideas and notations in visual diaries to document my creative process and thoughts for art projects.
This work, The Dancers No. 5, may appear to be drawn using ruled lines and French curves for varying radius lines, however the lines, shaped elements and textural colour are all hand drawn and added organically as the piece evolved.