STILL: National Still Life Award is Yarrila Arts and Museum’s national biennial acquisitive art award. Chris is a finalist with his work Touch, I remember touch, 2024.
'When I was a young child there was an old picket fence dividing our house with the
neighbours. The girls that lived there would dress the pickets up in a variety of clothes and
paint faces on them.
I've never been able to pass a picket fence without looking out for these characters, or
imagining them waiting to be painted and dressed up. Recreating this for me is a way of
storing and putting a memory that has grown softer over the years into something
tangible and tactile.'
STILL: National Still Life Award is Yarrila Arts and Museum’s national biennial acquisitive art award. Established in 2017, STILL aims to recognise excellence, diversity and innovation in contemporary still life practice while broadening the interpretation of this enduring genre.
STILL: National Still Life Award is open to artists at all stages of their practice and working across all mediums, including but not limited to painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video and installation.
