Sally Anderson's artwork Middle Brother Mother Mountain Fountain (PP Nude in a Garden, BT Mother and Child) is a finalist in the Calleen Art Award.
'This work recontextualises and arranges personal and intimate experiences with art historical references to address how motherhood, domesticity, and creative practice are, for me, reciprocal and ultimately entangled. The work arranged various representations of women from the perspective of a male gaze thus re-presenting them as subject matter rather than object. There's a female figure appropriated from a Guido Maestri painting titled Dream Brother (2022), a detaiul of a domestic scene from a Vuillard painting, an abstracted nude from Picasso's Nude in a Garden (1934), and a mother holding a child from Bob Thompson's blue Mother and Child (1965).
The Calleen Art Award is an annual acquisitive painting prize and exhibition. It presents the best of contemporary Australian painting in any style, theme or subject. Since its inception in 1977 by Cowra Art Patron Mrs Patricia Fagan OAM the Calleen Art Award has celebrated contemporary art practices and fostered originality, creativity and excellence in the visual arts.The winning artwork will join the Calleen Collection at Cowra Regional Art Gallery collection.
